I went through college (late 90's) with no drafting courses, and one seven-week solid modelling course (on pro-E). I learned a fair bit about general drafting practices in an unusually good high school class. I never learned about standards-based drawings until my first job after college.
My...
Why not ask your boss (or a co-worker already in that job) what areas a succesful candidate for the desired job should be skilled in? Alternatively there might be a job description already written that would go into these things. If you study only the things that were on this version of the...
Projects in the database are set up by engineers as needed. The windows file structure where the files actually reside is set up per company policy. And you're absolutely right - most of what's needed is a political solution, which I don't currently have the political capital to effect. I...
I agree with all of your points kellnerp. Some of the cleanup you've suggested has even been scheduled once or twice before, but always pushed off.
I would love to have the time, training, and authority to attack this stuff myself. Unfortunately it doesn't look like I'll get any of three of...
I'm not sure where temp files, if any, go. I do know that the results files are heavily used during the running of the simulation. I haven't checked if they're just written or read/written, but they're (a) generally large and (b) simulation runs much faster with them on a local drive than a...
Right click on the study name once it's created and before running it and select 'properties'. At the bottom of the first (options) tab is a space to choose the path for the results folder, make sure that's on the c:\ drive somewhere. This will have to be changed independantly for every study...
kellnerp,
I can't say why ours is set up with a checkin directory that is separate from all of the approval directories. I was not involved in the initial setup, which happenned before I started here. As you say, some of our issues would go away if files didn't move around.
I'd LOVE to get...
I've never used PDMWorkgroup, but I currently use and sometimes administer DBWorks.
The program works well for a single location, but we have no end of problems with the database replication between sites. The site to site replication drops out with no notice or warning, and when we eventually...
I don't know what your joint design looks like, but in a typical ("standard"?) bolted joint the tension in the bolt should be essentially static until the joint separates - at which point the bolt tension goes up with applied load until the bolt fails.
Depending on preload & bolt strength you...
I can't speak to your girlfriend's degree, but I know that the company I work (north of Boston) for has had a very hard time filling EE positions in the last year or so. Whether your background is appropriate to what we've looked for I couldn't say, but I know there is at least *some* work for...
I've had some step files open on my 64 bit machine that would crash a 32 bit system due to needing too much memory to load (I get some crazy large step files occasionally). Never had one that only opened on a 32 bit system.
Back to the OP: I've never known admin rights or lack thereof to have...
It sounds like your job situation has more than its fair share of challenges/difficulties, but your tone/attitude as gathered from your posts in this thread is not helping your case.
My suggestions:
Drop the "my mechanical understanding is superior" attitude. Your degree & experience make...
For the record, I agree that default tolerance schemes based on number of decimals are silly. I'm saddled with one right now, but some fights can't be won.
Having said that, the only problem with having a 24.25 dimension on a print where .XX gives an overly tight tolerance should be a...
If you really want the fit table on your drawings (which I agree is unnecessary, but I'll assume for this sake that you disagree) I would build the table once probably as a general table and then make a block out of it that you can insert on your drawings.
There's nothing that says you can't have a 12.75 +/-0.10 dimension. It sounds like your problem is more with a lazy drafter who wants to use one default tolerance to cover all dimensions (a bad idea in my opinion). Perhaps you need to work out a more detailed default tolerance block, or even...
I believe there should be a conversion wizard type program to mass convert older files to the new format. I know my PDM system (DBWorks) has one, but I don't know about others.
To the best of my knowledge there is no way to not have it convert old files on open. And because they're read-only...
I'm not sure how the feature you want works in AutoCAD (I probably did several years ago), but I don't believe there's an option besides scaling by a scale factor in SolidWorks.
Attached is an example file of what I suggested above.http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=dcb6819e-00fe-4b7a-b187-6c4bd5aa3b7c&file=partial_perforation.SLDPRT
Are using 'Features to Pattern' (vs. 'faces', as you post)? It's the only one for which I see a 'create seed cut' option. And it does appear that 'through all' is the only option with that cut.
How I would get blind or otherwise depth-controlled holes would be to make a single hole to the end...
