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  1. spider80

    SW2006 SP3: issues with pdf

    Hello all, I was wondering if any of the unfortunates people who have upgraded to SW2006 SP3 have had issues with the pdf creation. I recently upgraded from SP0 to SP3, I noticed that certain drawings when saved as pdf (with section areas hatched) creates the hatch marks all over the page. As...
  2. spider80

    Thread calculations

    I wish I could rob768. Believe me am a mm guy.
  3. spider80

    Thread calculations

    I was referring to MH (Machinery's Handbook). I would just like to verify the numbers with the ANSI standards or calculations.
  4. spider80

    Sheet metal ring

    Thanks Nick. I just got in touch with these guys, most of their engg's are out, so I wld have to wait till Mon. Will let you know if something good turns out... Thanks again...
  5. spider80

    Thread calculations

    To rephrase my question, how can I calculate minor dia of internal thread? I was referring to MH and couldnt work out numbers based on the thread profile dwg (on pg 1793). I need to cut 2B thd of dia 11.625. What I calculated was for a UN, height of a thread is basically 5/8 times its sharp...
  6. spider80

    Sheet metal ring

    Follow up: I ended up modifying my design for the other reasons and the shim became a lot thicker at about .050", however the dia, are the same and there is an angle on it. I couldnt get a lot of guys to quote for this, the only one who did was using philrocks suggestion, of machining it between...
  7. spider80

    Thread calculations

    Is it right to say : minimum dia of the internal thd. = (major dia. of internal thd.) -(5/8 *pitch * cos30) for an UNC or UNS thd? Thanks
  8. spider80

    Sheet metal ring

    Hi griffengm thanks for the tip. I will call them. So far the people I have called cannot handle thicknesses less than a 22 or 24 gauges (ranging around .020-.032" thick) due to fixturing and other issues. I have been asked to try etching and water jet machining. So far it looks like an etching...
  9. spider80

    Sheet metal ring

    Thanks for your suggestions. I will try it out and get back to you ....
  10. spider80

    Sheet metal ring

    I need to make a sheet metal ring thickness ranging between .002" and .007" with OD of 11" and ID of 10.50". I cant seem to find any distributors who has shims with OD greater than 6 or 7". I am in a time crunch that I cannot contact a precision stamping company. If I buy blank shim sheet and...
  11. spider80

    tangential placement of a curve on curve

    I have to place a fillet (curved end of an object), say curve A tangent to another curve, say curve B. One constraint I have is the location of curve A is fixed from the horizontal plane. Curve B is fixed in all respects (x,y,z). So if I want to place curve A tangential to B at a particular...
  12. spider80

    Detailing features SW 2006

    Corblimey, that was too obvious, pretty silly of me though to miss it. I guess I kept going down the tree before looking carefully at detailing. Thanks.
  13. spider80

    Detailing features SW 2006

    I am not able to modify the options of extension line lengths, offset of extension line from the feature etc. Solidworks seems to have fixed this. I recently upgraded to 2006, I havent seen these options in any SW though. Very rarely I have the necessity to use a particular size sheet and...
  14. spider80

    Sheet metal design

    Hi all, Am looking for some good place to learn sheet metal design. I did not give much notice to this unless I noticed lots of companies demanding experience in sheet metal (not just design engg) I am curious to know what it involves. Any pointers, websites elaborating designs reqts or your...
  15. spider80

    Dialog box display (2002)

    ooops !. My mistake.
  16. spider80

    Dialog box display (2002)

    Thanks a bunch Exxit.
  17. spider80

    Dialog box display (2002)

    I installed a free app dwggateway from the autodesk website. Since then I seem to have lost my dialogbox displays. Simple commands like opening a file, saving etc goes through the command line. Now as much as I love the command line, it gets annoying to type in/copy the path to the file you...
  18. spider80

    Line thickness in block

    Thanks for all your responses. Couldnt get back to you earlier... Corblimeylimey I am using SW 2005. wgchere, I dont understand what a "fixed" constraint does, both in this case and in general. rockguy, this is a good idea for preventing someone from moving lines, but I dont so much as want...
  19. spider80

    Line thickness in block

    Ya. I checked, they are not in any layer (i.e default layer) and the line thickness is the thinnest line. Perhaps there is a totally different solution to my actual reqt, I would like to double click on empty area next to a property in the titleblock (like for ex. a blank area next to a field...
  20. spider80

    Line thickness in block

    Hello, I was building a template and noticed that lines that were made a part of a block turn out to be super thick when they are printed in pdf. However if I dont make it a block, and keep it in layers, it prints fine. The text doesnt seem to be affected in this process, that is...

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