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  1. tz101

    Inventor Crashing While Printing Large Assembly Drawings to HP OfficeJet Pro 7740

    Hello, I have a recent issue printing large assembly drawings (20-30 sheets) to an HP OfficeJet Pro 7740 printer. Has anyone else experienced a similar issue, and is there a known fix? Thanks.
  2. tz101

    Butchered Databases

    Just me, or does anyone else go to work for companies where the previous engineers and/or CAD jockeys were either total novices with SolidWorks or just careless with their modeling/drawing/file saving conventions? Seems like everywhere I go, I spend a good amount of time repairing model files...
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    Things they forgot to mention in the interview

    How many have been the victim of lack of full disclosure by their organization in the interviewing process? Seems like things have gone from bad to worse in this area for me over the past couple decades. Everything from springing overly restrictive non-disclosure agreements on the day of...
  4. tz101

    SolidWorks vs. Inventor

    Once in a while I get job offers from companies that use Autodesk Inventor. Being a long time user of SolidWorks, can anyone attest to the similarities, or lack thereof, between these two softwares? In your estimation, is it advisable to make a career switch from SolidWorks to Inventor? Any...
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    Workplace Ethics

    Have you ever worked at a place where the president, your boss, or the DOO were shady and asked you to perform unethical practices? If not, have you simply witnessed dishonest and/or unethical business practices going on around you? How did you handle this?
  6. tz101

    Current Job Culture in Your Geographic Region

    Just curious, what is the overall job culture in your geographic region? Indiana, where I have worked my entire career, has become a veritable slave ship with backstabbers at every turn. Not intending this to be a whine session, but just stating facts. I am wondering if the entire US has...
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    Quantities in parentheses

    Typically, when authoring work instructions, production routers, or other engineering documents, I am accustomed to enclosing quantities within parentheses within sentences. "Drill Ø.250 hole (6) plcs." would be commonly used nomenclature. Lately, a coworker is critiquing my work and swears by...
  8. tz101

    3D Printers

    My company currently has a Stratasys uPrint 3D printer that we regularly use to print out prototypes of every new part we manufacture. This Stratasys printer seems to have been designed in not the best manner. Specifically, all the outer enclosure panels are made from a non-heat-resistant...
  9. tz101

    Does SolidWorks still accept user enhancement requests?

    The past couple weeks, I have noticed that the enhancements link in "My SolidWorks" section is gone. There is a link called "My Support" that in turn takes me to a page with a "My Enhancements" link, but all that does is take me to a searchable database of SPR's, with no ability to any longer...
  10. tz101

    Open Concept Offices

    Does anyone actually like working in an open office environment? Every place I have worked at that has an open engineering office is usually a daily mosh pit of noise and commotion and it is difficult to even hear, much less think. in my opinion, more engineering mistakes happen in open offices...
  11. tz101

    Serialized Print Media for Stratasys 3D printers

    Anyone else out there that uses Stratasys brand 3D printers and hates that you can only purchase your spools of print media through them due to the fact that each spool has an encoder to match it to your brand of printer? Does anyone know of a workaround to allow a person to purchase print media...
  12. tz101

    .IGES Geometry Repair

    Does anyone know of an available program that repairs .IGES geometry as far as making radii import as actual radii instead of splined curves, parallel faces actually importing as parallel surfaces instead of being at .00000056° angle to each other? Linear elements importing as lines instead of...
  13. tz101

    AS9100: Are Revision Levels for Referenced Documents Necessary on Shop Floor Job Travelers?

    We are an aerospace job shop, and currently list the latest customer standard revision levels, along with our own internal operations drawing revision levels, on each and every router step where they are pertinent. Is this an AS9100 requirement, or something we have brought on ourselves in...
  14. tz101

    Ambient Light Will Not Delete

    I have an older part file created by a predecessor. It has two ambient lights defined in the lighting tree (see attached image). I only want one per our company standard. There seems to be no way to delete ambient lights, only directional lights, in this part file. Any...
  15. tz101

    Dimensional Interpretation on Raw Casting Drawings with No Draft Shown

    I have been in mechanical design for a lot of years and had not heard the following theory until recently: This is a drawing of an iron casting that has been generated from a CAD model with no draft. The theory I have been presented with is that dimensions I have circled in red on this print...
  16. tz101

    SW optimal hardware specs

    My boss has asked me to spec out a new SolidWorks workstation. We regularly work with assemblies having 4,000 to 6,000 components. Plus the intent is that this workstation will also be utilized to conduct FEA analyses. SolidWorks' website recommends the following: Dual core processor as fast as...
  17. tz101

    Posting Resumes on Jobsites

    Is it wise to leave an engineering resume continually posted on major job boards like Monster and Careerbuilder, or should a person take copies down once they are actively employed? I ask because I wonder if current employers ever check those boards and wonder why my resume might still be out...
  18. tz101

    Pronest 2010 Q&A

    I read in the online help file that it is possible to input .cnc files directly as parts into the user defined parts list. It says to first associate the .cnc file extension with a controller type in a .cif definition file. I have done all this and still get the messsage, "Error: Undetermined...
  19. tz101

    ASTM A53 thermal properties

    I am attempting to define some currently used materials in our CAD database. We do not have copies of ASTM specs, and I need to know the following properties for ASTM A53 Grade A: -Elastic modulus -Poisson's Ratio -Shear modulus -Thermal conductivity -Thermal Expansion Coefficient -Specific...
  20. tz101

    particle board screw standard???

    Anyone know of a published standard that covers particle board screws. These are similar to wood screws, but more aggressive thread and with washer integrated into the head. Thanks. TZ

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