I have an old drawing that has a table on it. One of the columns in the table is for a radius dimension. To the right of the dimensions in the table there is either one Plus sign (+), two plus signs (++), or three plus signs (+++). Has anyone ever seen this type of tolerancing, if in fact that...
Our company manufactures analytical instruments; we do our hardware and software development in-house, as well as most of our manufacturing. Our Technical Writing department creates the Operator Manual, Installation Instructions, Upgrade Instructions, etc. for our instruments. Other than the...
Our company no longer has "draftsmen" in the Engineering Department. Our company uses Solid Edge to create mechanical component drawings, electromechanical assembly drawings, and cable drawings. Anyone in the company can write an ECO and and submit hand marked-up drawings to illustrate the...
Our Director of Engineering wants to release Solid Edge Assembly Drawings with nothing more than a Bill of Materials on the drawing, no views at all. These "drawings" would then be turned over to Manufacturing Engineering to create Assembly Instructions. The thought behind this new process...
Our company produces analytical instruments. Each instrument typically has a cabinet made out of painted sheetmetal, a printed circuit board card cage assembly with a mother board, a power supply assembly, and some type of analysis module assembly. 3D models of these sub-assemblies as well as...
Our company has some draftsman that used to do the majority of our drawings when we were using Cadkey. Now that we are using Solid Edge and the drawings are so much easier to produce, quite often the mechanical engineers are doing their own drawings so that they don't have to go through the...
