Can you inport XY co ordinates straight into a model. Example - straight from surveying equipment (CVS data ). Join up all the points and produce a model of the ground area.
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Mick
Can anyone point me to the joint design of the old (British) gasometer. The telescopic type that rose or fell with gas content. Where they some sort of water trough. Has anyone any sectional pictures.
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Mick
Being a nosey mechanical engineer I was wondering what calculated pressure is used for a round horizontal atmospheric tank.
I know pressure varies with depth, so on a vertical one the pressure is the same all round the tank depending on depth. For the horizontal one you would have "zero" at the...
Just for interest. Has anyone calculated the max length of steel stairs with std 180 x 75 PFC stringers (around 40 degs slope) simply supported at the ends?
In general - Is there an oilseal that could cope with a vertically downward output shaft, or do all "designed" boxes have weirs and grease on the lower bearing on this type of unit e.g. mixers, agitators etc?
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Mick
Does anyone know if there is a safe load table for overhung lengths of OMD rather than between supports. I want to overhang approx 0.5m. Calcs suggest standard sizes wouldn't be allowed for personel but I'm just curious?
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Could I roughly calc a brace compression load by splitting the beam in two & treating the brace end as an end support & resolving for the angled load. Or do you steelwork guys use another formulae for finding brace loads?
As a seperate question, what is the effective length of beam under the...
I use SolidWorks and am quite happy doing steelwork with it. The firm I work for tends to use Strucad (because they always have), and I know it is dedicated to steelwork, but- My question is- Does anyone know if there is any benifit with Strucad over SW when it comes to steelwork.
Being nosey again. I've seen under a 40' steel container and it looks like there was only 2 longditudenal members, the 4"x2" Channels on the outsides. Everything else on the base seemed to run across it. My question is if they weigh 10 ton and are lifted from the ends, what are the buckling...
I've been searching for the deflection formulae for a partially uniform load on a simply supported beam. In the old Lincoln book the sketch is 3C. I can't find it in Roarks either. That is when it's NOT in the centre.
The reactions and bending moments are given in all the examples I've Googled...
as anyone tapped a 1" SCH 80 stainless tube with 3/4"BSP. Looking at the sizes I reckon you would lose 8% of the thread depth. I suppose what I'm really asking is what pressure would this hold before the end fitting blew out?
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Can you tell me when you would consider using bracing on say a platform supported on 4 legs. (no horizontal loads)
If the legs are short I suppose they are not needed and even if they were long and wouldn't buckle (according to cals) you wouldn't need braces ??
Is there a rule for fitting them...
For some reason when I use the measure tool in large assys that I have zoomed into (I mean physical size not file size) the results are ALWAYS off screen as far as they will go and I have to use the mouse wheel till my fingers hurt to get them. I think SW knows and is trying to annoy me.
Anyone...
How do I do this. The drawing template is a multilayered DWG file. When I try to open it in SW2007 it goes through the "Create SW Drg Wizard (I have to play about with the scale something rotten). But when I try to save Sheet Format it all disapears. I've tried all afternoon to save it in...
I’m trying to understand the terminology used in steelwork. I’ve spent my life in the machinery side of engineering so the terms are a bit alien.
I’d like to know how the following connections are achieved in practice. i.e. how would the end of a beam actually be fixed to give that condition...
Hi, In my connected detail views - the connector line is tangent to the two circles and looks odd. Can it be changed to go in line with the centres?
I'm running SW2007
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In the example of the fuel tank (in imperial units) for the non uniform pressure example in the cosmos online tutorial the constant of 0.029 for the weight of the liquid. Am I right in thinking for metric units (SI) I insert 0.0008 here (for the same liquid)
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In the example of the fuel tank for the non uniform pressure example in the cosmos online tutorial the constant of 0.029 for the weight of the liquid. Am I right in thinking for metric units I insert 0.0008 here (for water)
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Hi again.
Can you tell me what is the best format to download a drawing into a Word document. I tried saving the drawing as a pdf, jpg & tiff but they don't seem as clear as they might be.
Also how do you rotate them. The format button/rotate does not appear for the downloaded images yet it...
