Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations TugboatEng on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. fighterpilot

    Just migrated to Win7 now SLOW

    Experienced the same right after moving to Win 7 on a new Dell T3600. I dumped the Aero interface and went back to the old XP style and that seemed like it helped alot. -- Fighter Pilot Manufacturing Engineer
  2. fighterpilot

    Change templates on existing parts or add new parameters

    Write a mapkey to automatically add all the new parameters you need now in your old parts. You'll have to call each on up into session but it's a quick way to enter the parameters. -- Fighter Pilot Manufacturing Engineer
  3. fighterpilot

    Dimensioning to a datum plane

    Try sketching in 3D space so you can select the datum plane easier. It also appears there is a selection filter for Datums as well. -- Fighter Pilot Manufacturing Engineer
  4. fighterpilot

    Visual work instructions for fast takt time manufacturing assembly

    I'm looking to see what others are doing w/r/t creating work instructions (visual, textual, or both) for a fast takt time manufacturing process. In the area I support our takt times run anywhere from about 9 minutes to 12 minutes. More than likely we are running three or four workbenches and...
  5. fighterpilot

    How to 'place' the center of gravity in a part?

    "The centroid of a model is what it is. It's 'derived' NOT 'defined'" I understand that. The standalone part I'm using in my assembly is just a simplified outer moldline of a complicated assembly I happen to know the mass properties of. I want this simplified part to have the same weight...
  6. fighterpilot

    How to 'place' the center of gravity in a part?

    John, I'm aware of how to figure the CoG of the part. What I want to do is place a CoG at a specific location in a part. -- Fighter Pilot Manufacturing Engineer
  7. fighterpilot

    How to 'place' the center of gravity in a part?

    Searching brought back nothing so a question is in order. I have a part which mimics the outer moldline of an multi-piece assembly. I know the weight and the center of gravity of this assembly. I want to put that information into the moldline standalone part. I can figure out what the...
  8. fighterpilot

    Control of thread start

    pencilgeek, I had thought it might come down to that hoping i would get full control of it. I'll have to look back at my modeling books to figure out how to create that feature. thanks... -- Fighter Pilot Manufacturing Engineer
  9. fighterpilot

    Control of thread start

    Yes, detailed threads. I'm going to make a plastic rapid prototype model eventually and these threads are large enough to get good detail in the prototype. I think I can get the 'run-out' at each end I've been using a datum plane spaced off one pitch length from my actual part as the starting...
  10. fighterpilot

    Control of thread start

    Suppose it would help of the image got linked. -- Fighter Pilot Manufacturing Engineerhttp://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=9755f612-9930-45ae-8e9b-04192541226d&file=Snap2.jpg
  11. fighterpilot

    Control of thread start

    John, Image below. Part OD: 4.50" Part width: .50" Internal thd: 3.5-12 UN There are other features to add but they are really dependent upon the location of the thread start. I'd like it to start at the 6 o'clock position but at this point in the part construction it doesn't really...
  12. fighterpilot

    Control of thread start

    Using the Insert/Design Feature/Threads, is it possible to control the starting point of where the thread cuts into a part? I wasn't successful using the Extend Thru Start option since the start of my thread didn't cut thru the end of the part. I ended up creating a datum plane offset from...
  13. fighterpilot

    Visualization of a cylinder error

    cowski, That is the method I use also. However, I can get the image to disappear in the component preview window as well just by zooming in and out. -- Fighter Pilot Manufacturing Engineer
  14. fighterpilot

    Visualization of a cylinder error

    I have been dealing the same issue for the last two NX versions now. Mine occurs when assembling components. If I drop a component in an assembly and then zoom up so I can select constraint surfaces the component in question will evenually go away as it is 'sliced' away while zooming in. I...
  15. fighterpilot

    Frustrated with Hole Tool

    dgallup, Agree, revolved cut would not care and sometimes it's the way to go. OP is using the Hole Tool however. It probably cares as it always did in the past. I've not been on Pro/E since WF 1 however. My suggestion was based upon past experience. -- Fighter Pilot Manufacturing Engineer
  16. fighterpilot

    Frustrated with Hole Tool

    I see you're trying to place your hole on the outer surface where it sees only 1/2 of the cylinder. I'll bet if you placed it 90 degrees from where you're trying to place it, it will go. Pro/E has always had difficulty with outer cylindrical surfaces used as placements due to the way it...
  17. fighterpilot

    Pro/E vs. CATIA vs. NX

    Ben, You'll have to explain more on that situation to convince me. I'm on NX6 and I find the drafting painfully slow and unintuitive. My guess is UG focuses on 3D MBD and not drafting. The ability to violate design intent in a UG drawing is enough to me to pass on it. -- Fighter Pilot...
  18. fighterpilot

    Pro/E vs. CATIA vs. NX

    Pro/E drafting is far superior over NX in my opinion. The concept of shown dimensions has escaped UG code writers. If you design a model with design intent built in, showing those dimensions in Pro/E is easy. If you do the same in UG, you'll be manually creating dimensions in your drawing...
  19. fighterpilot

    Import assembly into Teamcenter

    I have an ProdDef created in Teamcenter. Locally I have a two part assembly where the parts are constrained by assembly constraints. One part is already in Teamcenter. I want to import that assembly as a UG data set under the item in Teamcenter. When I do the import I select the assembly...
  20. fighterpilot

    Individual part drawings to multi-model drawing, easily?

    I had my drawings under each individual component because that's how I would have done it w/ Pro/E. I got b-slapped because "that's not how we've always done it here" and it's not what the tool makers wanted. I moved one component to layer 50 and then added a base view of my entire assembly...

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top