Where is the official location of the certification of an aircraft for ditching? 14 CFR 25.801 starts with "...(a) If certification with ditching provisions is requested..." so it must be requested. How do I know which aircraft have been requested and certification granted? Is it listed on...
We use SW 2008 at our organization. In our drawing template for the revision table we have selected Arial - Regular - .09 inches as the default font for the revision table. This setup is found under Tools --> Options --> Document Properties --> Tables --> Revision and looking in the Text area...
I am new to this forum. I have performed a search of Eng-Tips but so far have not found an answer to my exact question as far as I have been able to locate. Please provide a link to the correct post if I overlooked it.
Right now my company does not have access to ANSI/ASME Y14.6 which I think...
While this question is not strictly limited to Aircraft Engineering, since that is what I have been doing for years I wanted to asks my peers.
Some times when I review an engineering drawing to determine if it meets applicable standards (FAA, company, industry), I will find that an engineer has...
Our SW templates and sheet formats contain this note on sheets 2 and subsequent of our drawing format, which is straight from SW Help and it works great:
SHEET $PRP:"SW-Current Sheet" OF $PRP:"SW-Total Sheets" and that results in a display of "SHEET 2 of 2" as intended because our standard...
I have searched and could not find this specific topic. However, if any of you know that it has already been addressed I would appreciate it if you would point me to the existing forum topic.
Assuming my search was thorough enough to ensure that this is truly a new question, I will proceed...
in the FAA TCDS (Type Certificate Data Sheet) for the DC-9 series of aircraft in Notes Applicable to All Models 6.(a), the TCDS mentions a Douglas Report Number K4358. We have requested this report from Boeing since they now own Douglas, and they have replied that we cannot have it due to their...
Our company has access (recently acquired) to Airbus World where we can view various Airbus documents for their aircraft (maintenance, repair and engineering data).
My boss keeps talking about locating Airbus "frame specs" which he says will give information about the fuselage frames. I am not...
I have not modified a Douglas aircraft for over 15 years, and most of my old reference data has been lost in contracting moves. I was hoping someone could point me to the Douglas Drafting Manual so I could refresh myself on the interpretation of Douglas aircraft drawings.
If you can give me a...
Sorry in advance for the long background info blurb below, but I am trying to give potential responders enough information to help them focus their responses without having to do a lot of back and forth posts.
My company has decided to invest in LEAN operations and engineering. I am a project...
I have recently picked up the responsibility for revising our existing Solidworks templates and sheet formats. We currently run Solidworks 2006 (I don't know the service pack level), but I can find it next time I am at work if it is needed).
Our current setup is this: We have a template named...
I have been an AutoCad user since R12, but only in 2D. Also I only use AutoCad as a tool in my toolbox to help communicate my design intent for my engineering tasks, although sometimes I create finished drawings. I admit I am not an expert in AutoCad. I typically learn only what I need to get...
I did a search but was unsuccessful. I found one thread that addressed my exact question, but the answer was not what I needed, and that thread is closed so I opened this new one.
I very rarely use balloons on a Solidworks drawing. However, when I do, I need the leader line to be...
At our company we use AutoCad 2000 and AutoCad 2000LT, and a few of us have been upgraded to AutoCad 2006. The rest of us are to be updated to AutoCad 2006 in the "near" future, as budget allows.
We plot named views in model space for most drawings. We do not typically use paper space...
I would like to ask the advice of more experienced Solidworks users. I am a self taught user of Solidworks 2005 and therefore there are many holes in my understanding of how to use it. I have done searches on the terms "solidworks, points, table" and didn't find my answer, so I will ask in...
My company uses the Drawing Requirements Manual (DRM, ISBN 1-57053-034-3) published by Global Engineering Documents as our drafting standard. I realize there is a world of industry standards out there, but our company feels that the DRM is a very concise compilation of the most useful...
I have searched the FAQ's and the forums for my specific question, and I have either overlooked it or did not phrase my queries correctly. I use a lot of fastener symbols to show the location of rivets and bolts. One block indicates a complete new hole, one block indicates pick up an existing...
I was unable to find anything in the FAQ's that addressed my question. So here is my question. I have inherited a Solidworks assembly drawing (I am using Solidworks 2005) and this drawing, when I do a "Find References" command, tells me it cannot locate a file name that starts with a tilde and...
I have searched the FAQ's with no luck, and the Forums found a hit but for SW 2003. We are using SW 2005, although we had this problem with SW 2004 before.
I have successfully updated the templates we use for SW, but there is one characteristic I cannot seem to get established in our template...
I have searched the forums and FAQ's and did not find an answer, so here are two questions. I would appreciate any advice.
We are using Solidworks 2005, although we saw this previously with Solidworks 2004 also.
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QUESTION 1
We can only find one location to set the gap distance for...
