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  1. DaveZR2

    Question about year end review

    Hi all, Have my review coming up and my manager is asking me to be prepared to discuss my plan to educate/develop myself personally (as opposed to professionally). What do you imagine that he's looking for? Seems like a work review doesn't really need to touch on my personal life. Thanks.
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    UL component substitution

    We are attempting to make our UL component listing as generic as possible so that in the future we can source other vendors without updating our listing. Say we had a generic PLC listed as a part of our control box that said something like "Programmable Logic Controller - Listed (XXXX), rated...
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    Duplicate Parts for Proof Test (MAWP) UG-101(d)

    We are looking to see if it is feasible to substitute a similar material for a proof tested part as described in UG-101 According to UG-101(d)(2)(c), the duplicate part material must: "...have the same or tougher material grouping in UCS-66, Fig. UCS-66, and Notes." My question is, what is the...
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    What are elevations?

    Hi, We are a manufacturer of laboratory equipment. Recently we have been getting requests for CAD Blocks of our equipment that can be inserted into architectural drawings. To do this I've been creating 2D top view drawings of our product in AutoCAD 2006. I was pretty proud of myself...
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    Am I cut out for engineering?

    I'm a fairly intelligent person. I made it through my BS in Mechanical Engineering without a problem. Wasn't at the very top of the class, but did well. I'm in my early twenties and I've had 2 jobs since graduation, plus 3 internships during college. Lately I've been really wondering whether...
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    Inserting/updating multiple blocks?

    Is it possible so insert/update more than one block at a time? As you can probably guess, I have several diagrams that share the same 10-15 blocks. The blocks are stored as separate files (should have just used xrefs?). I decided to make some changes to the block files, and I would like to...
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    Water Strainer P&ID symbol.

    Hi, Looking for a proper symbol to use for a v-pattern water strainer (shown in link below) in a P&ID I am creating. http://www.watts.com/pro/_productsFull.asp?pid=819&ref=1 Thanks for the help!
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    Varying distance mate values between configurations

    Hi, I'm using SolidWorks 2008 SP3.1...I have an assembly with some distance mates. This assembly also has multiple configurations. The value of the distance mate should vary for each configuration. It seems to me that there's no way to configure the distance mate to do this other than to...

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