Our company has a standard information and design table in our part and assembly templates that we use to populate drawing title blocks. We also have a standard traveler that is excel-based. What I am trying to do is insert a button in the design table that will launch and auto-populate the...
I'm working on the development of vehicle that will most likely be required to use a CO2 HVAC system. In doing some research, i found quite a few references to the development of automotive CO2-based HVAC systems that can also run as a heat pump. My question is, why is this only being explored...
I was wondering if anyone can recommend a text for vehicle cooling system design. I'm looking for a book that covers:
-general discussion of system design
-the critical design points (idle, speed on grade, others?)
-acceptable radiator performance estimates (hard data is hard to come by if you...
I've read (mostly on enthusiast forums that I don't trust) that the steps are there for one of three reasons:
1: anti-reversion
2: velocity changes
3: Creation of a step change in area for pulse tuning
Is it one of those, a combination of those, or none of those? My intuition is that it's not...
We're designing a number of hydraulic manifolds that will have a number of J1926 ports machined of varying sizes. What I had done is created one part that is basically a "plug" of the port cut, then another part that is the main manifold. I then inserted the port part as solid body and did a...
Here's what I've been trying to do:
I have a sweep defined by a composite curve of 2D sketches. It's of a brake line that we would like to get CNC bent. The suppliers want X,Y,Z coordinates of the tangent edges and bent centerpoints. I can't figure out a good way to get this table of data into...
I've been using solidworks for probably 3 years now, but I'm a total rookie with macros. I'm trying to create a table of 3D points for a piece of tubing that we want to get cnc-bent. I found the FAQ that exports it to excel, but it's not working for me. When i try to run it, I get the following...
