What is the process to determine how hard a components surface should be, but more importantly how do you determine how deep the the hardness should travel?
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I need to have a 3/8" round bar finsihed with a surface finsh of 12-16 microinches. Is this something that is going to be achievable using 8620 or 4340 without being heat treated and being ground. The part would be machined on a lathe.
Is there a rule of thumb on what surface finish is...
For the the life of me I cannot figure out why the thumbnails previews will not work in Windows Explorer. I've ensured that the check box is checked in Solidwork's options menu and done some other checking in WindowsXP.
It is rather odd as I can preview pdfs through the thumbnails. I have...
For the life of me I can't get this to work. What I am trying to do is draw a 3" OD pipe (.065" wall") elbow that gets swedge up to 3.25" OD after the bend. I don't want use a loft as it cannot be dimmensioned correctly enough for the pipe bender.
The problem comes into to play when trying to...
We are currently investigating a replacement bushing material for C95400 aluma bronze. Our application operating temperatures are now reaching 1300° which is far above the maximum operating temperature of the C95400.
For the application, the bushing is pressed into a cast iron housing. A 303...
I am looking for some tips regarding configuring a hollow tube that has a number lofts for use in Floworks 05. No matter how I configure the "Lids/caps" for each end I always run into the dreaded error that the object does not exist in the fluid boundry when creating boundry conditions.
At...
looking for specs on designing an 8vgroove pulley
goodyear belt part number is 4081261
however, the angles of the groove, depth and width is what im looking for.
the reservoir that i picture is small in volume (.200 litre) but will hold a 'non-compressible' fluid at a given pressure( 25000-30000 psi)
would it be possible to use gas as a spring to place a force on teh fluid when the fluid pump is not creating pressure. in order to reduce the pressure...
is this possible,
it was much easier to do this in inventor.
the question is how do you take a bitmap and wrap it to the surface and then use that outline to extrude (emboss)???
i have a part that is bent steel bar.
the manufacturing company uses a different design package. i use solidworks. they would like to have my dimensions to the .... if you were to extend the line of the strait section of bar to where the line would meet the corresponding extension from the...
i have an injection molding and im looking to have it made to look like carbon fibre.
are there many options to make it look like carbon fibre.
currently i have found immersion graphics as my only option??
looking for what the bars of a typical steering system would be made of.
the bars that im looking at are on a light duty diesel pickup.(3/4 or 1 ton) 4x4
pitman arm steering.
in a y configuration.
forged, rolled etc ????
if forged are the bars bent after the forging?
i was going to send out a steering arm from a 3/4 ton diesel pickup for material analysis, i was just wondering if someone could enlighten me so that i could save some time.
i suspect that the piece is forged, but i was wondering if the piece needs to be forged or not.
just wondering what the significance is to them?
i now see john deere excavators are yellow, the older backhoes by deere were yellow.
is there any significance to the yellow color?
other than branding.
looking into having a casting done in SR319, which i am told is strontium reinforced 319 grade recycled aluminum.
however i would like to know more on the machinability and other properties of the metal.
i have a cycloidal, inner cam ring, that needs to be dimensioned for machining.
what dimensions do i need?
can i place a table of dimensions for every other degree?
its a six lobe cam.
I have been tasked with creating wiring harness drawings from a given example of that harness.
so for my models i dont have a reference to run the wires from and to. I am just looking for the best way that i should go about creating these drawings.
I have looked at simply creating drawings...
