There's an old post I made on eng-tips where I provided a link to a file with a full list of letters allowed by ASME standard for revisions and view labels on drawings. That old link is outdated, so I'm providing an updated link now (using plenty of the appropriate keywords in this post to allow...
Is anyone using or know of anyone else using Schematic Thread display on drawings, which is an option in ASME Y14.6 (image below Fig 2)?
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What's the standard that specifies the size of center marks and when they should be added to holes on a drawing? Almost every ASME Y drawing with holes has center marks that have a uniform shape, but where is this actually specified. Where is it specified that we should put them at the center...
[xpost from ASME standards forum because I know this one has a lot of smart people that frequent it] What's the standard that specifies the size of center marks and when they should be added to holes on a drawing? Almost every ASME Y drawing with holes has center marks that have a uniform...
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Does the ISO drafting standards actually say not to use trailing (insignificant) zeros on dimensions? If so, where?
This is easy to find in ASME Y14.5-2009, but I cannot seem to find it in the ISO standards, like 129.
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A practice I've seen some engineers use for a patterned row of holes is to show the linear dimension between the first two with the added statement "NON-ACCUMULATIVE".
In my view, this is a poor practice, since the engineer needs to make a choice to apply the tolerence to the overall length of...
Does anyone have a source for flathead undercut metric machine screws (size m3 and m4)? Does these animals even exist?
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Is there a way to get VBA macro forms to pop up over SolidWorks in Win7. I've found behavior where forms pop under SolidWorks and do not show up in the Task Bar.
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I looking to opinions about whether or not MMC (or LMC for that matter) is needed or even useful on positional tolerances to locate plane old threaded holes for mounting.
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I recently asked this quest in the Y14.5 yahoo group and got some interesting answers. Here's the question: I was just curious in seeing what is currently being done by others with the use of "THRU" on cut features. When is it necessary (if at all). What is the difference between "THRU"...
Did the "All over" symbol make it into the ASME-Y14.5-2009 standard? I saw mention of it recently.
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There's been a lot of discussion in this forum about macros that allow the user to quickly save a drawing or drawing view as a PDF. (such as thread559-163578 ) I recently created a new macro that addresses may of the old requests including those not previously touched. It's uploaded here...
I don't have any code to post for this question yet because I cannot even find the methods to use for this: How do I get the names of the named views in a part? I wish to traverse all named views and save them to an array, then search for a particular name or names.
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I have a X,Y grid pattern of holes laid out flat plate. Datum A is on the facing surface. Datum B runs through the part in the X direction. Datum C runs through the center of the part in the Y direction. (See the attached drawing.)
I wish to apply positional tolerance to the holes of the...
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I would ask this over at the VBA forum, but it looked kinda dead over there, so I'll ask here (since this is for a macro anyway).
Is there a simple method to disable the X button on a VBA form that will work within SW's VBA? On this macro Rigid Custom Properties, the X Button is taking an...
Has anyone had the opportunity to look over the new draft for ASME Y14.5M? Any comments on it? Anyone else have any comments about 1994 that they would like to see changed or added?
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