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  1. AliThePro

    viewing sections dynamically

    I think there is an icon in product design that enables you to view sections through the assembly but I can not find it. Where in the menu can I find it? Can some one please post the steps to go though to see through an assembly? I appreciate your help.
  2. AliThePro

    femap API

    how do you change the layer of the solids programtically? Thanks
  3. AliThePro

    Catia tutorial

    does anybody know of a good online source or tutorial for catia? My help is not working and I can not find clear instructions on how to do stuff by searching the forum. Thanks
  4. AliThePro

    Boolean operation

    How do you combine two solids in Catia? Which workbench you should be on to be able to do that? Thanls
  5. AliThePro

    searching the tree

    how do you search the specification tree for a particular part in Catia? Thanks
  6. AliThePro

    zooming the model versus tree

    When I try to zoom, it is the tree that gets zoomed. The focus of my zoon commands is the tree and my rotate button is disabled. How do I return the focus back to model? Thanks
  7. AliThePro

    Virtual condition - Resultant condition

    If these definitions, can somebody tell me what constant and variable mean? Thanks 1. Virtual condition - A constant boundary generated by the collective effects of a size fearures's specified MMC or LMC material condition and the geometric tolerance for that material condition. 2 Resultant...
  8. AliThePro

    Quiz on straightness of line elements

    I ran into a quiz about the straightness control. I can not understand one of the answers. This is a simple quiz. I illustrate it below (with question and answers separated in case you want to test your selves) The quiz shows a bar with a diameter of .495 and tolerance of +/- .005 (So MMC is...
  9. AliThePro

    Center method

    Can somebody describe the Alternative "Center Method" for MMC or LMC in plain English? I am not sure how it works. Thanks
  10. AliThePro

    reultant condition boundary

    Hi, I am reading an article that describes the resultant boundary condition. It says for an internal feature of size controlled at MMC: Resultant condition = LMC size limit + geometric tolerance + size tolerance. For example for a .511 +/- .003 hole with the following Feature control frame...
  11. AliThePro

    points to define a datum

    I know that we need two point to define a line, so two points can be used to define a datum that is a line. I also know that we need three point to define a surface, therefore, three points can be used to define a surface that is a datum. But how about cylinders or spheres? Are three points...
  12. AliThePro

    programatically find Access version

    Does anybody know how to programatically find out the version of the microsoft access in VBA? thanks.
  13. AliThePro

    Find in Excel

    I cannot fiqure Out while find fails for one particular data. The line of the code is: Set curRange = Sheets("Appendix B").Columns("A:A").Find(sIFRAM(iIndex)) The curRange returned for one of the items (iIndex = 210)is Nothing, it works fine for other data in sIFRAM array. I copied the value of...
  14. AliThePro

    surface profiles and datumn

    Suppose you have a cone and a surface profile on the side surface relative to datum A (diameter of the base) and datum B (plane of the base). Why do we need these datum? What do they mean? Thanks, Ali
  15. AliThePro

    text box event

    I have a text box on a form that is formatted as currency. This text box actually shows the total for someother text boxes that get the data from the user. Since the total text box get updated through the code, AfterUpdate event is not triggerd. I need to do something when this control value has...
  16. AliThePro

    Excel ! operator

    What is the difference between "." and "!" operator in Excel. It seems to me that where ever you use "!" you can use "." instead.
  17. AliThePro

    Microsoft Access failure check

    When DoCmd.OpenForm with a select statement fails, Access opens a form with nothing on it. Is there any way to check if the OpenForm failed? there is no return value for openform in the documentation. I am using Access 2000
  18. AliThePro

    CMM and GD&T

    When we use Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM) to check for tolerances how do we establish the datum? Suppose your vendor gave you the CMM data on a manufactured part. You can't set up the datum Plane through the three highest point on the datum feature, you can only ask for the coordinate of...
  19. AliThePro

    GD&T Gurus

    This might seem like a simple question but I asked some GD&T experts and I got different answers. Suppose you have a ring with two (cylindrical) surfaces. There are two surface profile on each surface with the tolerance .06 The way the ring is dimensioned is that the basic radius for the inner...
  20. AliThePro

    Micosoft Access Question.

    This question is about Access 2000. I have a form with lables, text boxes, etc. which is linked to a table. If the table is empty (no records), then when the form comes up there is nothing on the form even the lables. But, when I populate the table with some records then the table comes up fine...

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