CATIA V5R18
In the advanced machining workbench within an MO, I seem to have lost my Edge Selection toolbar.
Before you ask, Yes. I have checked under all the chevrons and I have checked to make sure that that it is toggled on.
I have tried Tools/Customize, Restore All Contents and Restore...
So, I've been using CATIA for about 4 months now and I am getting competent with the tools I need to use. I was a little disappointed when I found some basic tools that I used daily in other software was not available in CATIA but I got past that and have found other ways to do what I want...
Hey all,
Just figured I would let you all know that I will be starting a new job at the end of the week. Unfortunately I wont be using Inventor anymore I will be learning CATIA so I wont be posting here as often. You can probably look for me in the CATIA forums (I'll be the one asking all the...
I have a requirement from our engineers that a vertical rail, in an assembled machine frame, be located a certain distance from the center or mid-point of a horizontal rail regardless of the horizontal rail's true manufactured length.
How would you dimension/tolerance this per ASME...
My company specs the use of Tungsten Carbide, CD650 on several of our drawings. I want to input the material properties into our FEA software so that we can get as accurate an analysis as possible. Unfortunately the engineer that originally spec'd it is no longer here and I can't seem to get the...
I am looking at a print that has a leader pointing to a hex shaped feature that says "SW6". This may be a stupid question but can anyone tell me what this means?
David
Is there an ASME Standard for calling out rivets on a drawing? I have no experiance with rivets, our company almost never uses them but we found an instance where it is easier and cheaper than spot welding and now I need to figure out how to spec them for our vendors.
Thanks for the help.
David
We use Autodesk Inventor which is very limited in it's ability to adhear to ASME Y14.41 but we would like to use it as much as possible. We have some cast, industrial design parts that have complex curves and radii. This makes it extremly difficult to dimension per ASME Y14.5 (our usual...
Hey all,
I am reorganizing our file structure and was hoping to get some feedback on how others have their's organized. Currently we are FUBAR, we have three distinct divisions to our company and every one of them has a different method of dealing with this. Each group has their own folder on...
When is it appropriate to attach a "CL" symbol to a centerline? Is it ever nessesary? Is this part of a standard somewhere? Does anyone do this on a regular basis?
Oh the joys of writing CAD standards.
David
Hey all,
I have a mechanical desktop drawing that has 3d solids in it. Our doc control system uses Volo View to display .dwg files. When I open the file in Volo View, I get a wireframe view of the 3d model even if it is shaded when I open it in mechanical desktop. Does anyone know of a way to...
I have a round, flat part with a hole in the center. It kinda looks like a huge washer. Datum A is the bottom surface. How can I get a parallel tolerance of .001in to Datum A for theoretical area 12in in dia. from the center of the part and then the remainder of the part has a parallel tolerance...
I just got asked to clean up someone else's mess, oh what fun...
Here's the current situation. People have created their own project files and individual folders to house their individual portions of the larger assembly. Some of these folders are buried 3-4 levels deep in the file structure...
Had anyone else not relaized that as per ASME Y14.100-2004 para 4.28, dates on drawings are to be written Year-Month- Day rather than Month-Day-Year? I have always written dates Month-Day-Year, am I the only one?
I have an iPart factory that has existed in our library file for a long time. Somebody (we are not sure exactly who it was or what they did), has made a copy or something of the part and placed it in a folder that is completely outside of our project paths. Now whenever we try to open a file...
I need some help. I am using ACAD '04, I have a drawing in which all the letters in the text I put in read left to right but the letters are upside-down. I am in the top view and this drawing has worked before, but now everything is pooched. If anyone can advise me how to get the text to come in...
Where on a drawing do you attach the arrow head for a spot weld symbol? Any other weld you would attach it to an edge but with a spot weld there isn't an edge to attach to. If someone has an example that they can post I would appreciate it.
With the change to symbol based hole notes does anyone know if the note "Thru To Bore" is still the accepted way to describe the depth of a hole that intersects another hole but does not go all the way thru?
I have gotten a .stp file from an Industrial Design company and I am trying to open it in inventor. The file was created in Rhino. I open the file and have nothing but surfaces that I need to "promote" in order to even use them, I really need solids. Is this a setting in Rhino that I need to get...
How can you adjust the qty in a parts list to reflect the length of a part rather than the number of instances? This would be used for things like tape or gasket material that would be in the parts list by length in inches rather than by quantity. I have figured out a way to do it by allowing...
