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MJuric

In US high schools, there were two career paths, 4 year university and vocational technical, I think there still is but the emphasis has shifted to either 4 year or burger flipper. Most of the vocational stuff around us has been shut down. We used to have a HS "Vocational Center" that was...

MJuric

Just wanted to say, well said! I could go on for days on the complete and utter destruction that we've created in this country with our shift away from having respect for a decent "Blue collar" career to "If it doesn't require a degree it's not a worthy career choice". There was...

MJuric

Well, since we have separated the engineering design and manufacturing into two separate drawing files, we now get pushback from mfg about having to open two files to get all information. Manufacturing drawings should be created by manufacturing. Yep in some cases manufacturing doesn't have the exp...

MJuric

Yes. My point exactly. Even if it's not technically "our fault", engineers have a tendency to become a catch-all for blame. Do not ask me how I know this. grumph This is the problem with directing manufacturing from Engineering. If you have a strict wall of "I don't tell manufacturin...

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If I did that, I'd be the slowest one on the interstate....general flow of traffic here seems to be around 85. And you still get passed by quite a few cars. Granted, this stretch of interstate is not busy even during rush hour as its thru a rural area. Depends on level of congestion. This "Swi...

MJuric

Place the dim. Hover over the dim RMB, "Display as Radius/Dia"

MJuric

For those of you designing sheet metal parts that are processed inhouse, are you responsible to use the correct radius and K-factor or do you have a programmer that assigns press tooling and recalculates blank sizes? I know how to set up a gage table correctly, but the key is knowing exactly what t...

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During my year at home with the *bat-fever* office shutdown, I tended to work more hours (12+) than in the office (8-10). I know because my wife was on me about it as I would start at roughly 8am and sometimes be still working at 8pm. Yeah, I did break to spend time with family, do some dishes, or ...

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:42 pm What's wrong with this picture?
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Grey is so 1950's?

MJuric

If you have pets like a dog, you can also play with the pet between things. We worked from home for about a month, this was unquestionably high on the list. I'd go to my desk, dog would follow and just lay there most of the day. Biggest thing for me was the drive. Saved me 60-75 minutes a day. Wors...

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 3:13 pm One route gives more time to turn back.

Isn't there some thought or quote that first we make up our mind, then we rationalize it?

If that's not a quote, it should be.

MJuric

This is because highway speeds are too low. Cars are way safer at higher speeds than the cars that were on the road when the current speed limits were originally set. Most fairly busy interstates have the majority of traffic travelling at 10-15 mph over the speed limit. I read something about how t...

MJuric

With the use of cell phones and cameras most of them questions that you need to go to the shop for about stuff not working could be done via video chats, and stuff. I can say that I do things every day that would take three four times as long to do via "Video Chat" if not impossible. Diag...

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It's not just science, but true of a lot of situations, especially when politics get involved. image.png https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2016/01/20 I'm not sure people always go for the simplest explanation as much as any explanation that agrees with what they already believe. I've watched peo...

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Once you allow an individual who desires to take on responsibility without supervision, the myth fades....................... I'm just saying that for every person that "Wants to take responsibility" there are probably five that want to take advantage. I've been hiring/firing and managing...

MJuric

Thanks for the replies. I'll have to do some more research... Can anyone point me in the direction of what the Video Card Bottom Line is for 3D CAD? Since I'm a one-man shop, I don't need ceritification to be "safe," I just need it to work without too much additional hassle. Meaning, what...

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Has Nvidia dropped its Quadro line? Should I look instead for RTX cards? If so, do all RTX cards support whatever Solidworks, etc? Has anyone found a decent article that can help me understand this shift? I'm wondering if they are heading the direction of completely eliminating "Professional&q...

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try to replace in the properties "D2@Sketch7@Part1.SLDPRT" with "D2@Sketch7" (same for Sketch8) save and close the part. copy and rename it on the desktop a couple of times and it regenerate correctly everytime since. I'll have to try that. I have this in a driveworks model and ...

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It's too easy to watch the grass grow while sipping on some great coffee. This is exactly why most companies have not and are hesitant to go this route. Despite people declaring "I'm just as productive from home" the fact is that most people are not. Walk around any company and just watch...

MJuric

Hi All. I have come across this issue a couple of times over the years, but this particular one is problematic for me as I would really rather not simply delete it and recreate it as I have done in the past. Essentially, I will close a "Part" file, (AFAIK, it only happens to part files.) ...

MJuric

So why could we not do our jobs from the house? A little ingenuity to set up and office space, that we use just for doing work, and leave it for work, and the rest of the house for being the house. Think of the $$ that we could save by not having to have 2 cars, and all the $$ that we spend to oper...

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That's interesting, we were told that renaming is a thing of the past once PDM is used. That renaming files for the sake of file life cycle was the old way and not needed in PDM. I'm starting to see that there's still plenty good reasons for renaming files as part of the process even within PDM. Or...

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It isn't 'D'. It is: image.png The line to which the text is attached is short, so the text is truncated. The text is linked to the 'old' value of the property from before the file rename, which doesn't evaluate to anything in the newly named file so the text shows the 'raw' value. The only way to ...

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SAD BUT SO VERY TRUE ..... After dinner a teacher started checking homework done by her students. Her husband is strolling around with a smart phone playing his favorite game. When reading the last homework notes, the wife starts crying with silent tears.... Her husband saw this and asked, ‘Why are...

MJuric

Black magic! People have to know through experience! It creates jobs! Please, don't put me through this, I'm suffering already!!! Have mercy! I really feel for you for having to do that. I just can't imagine the routing being tied to the name of the part especially in an ERP/MRP system. That would ...

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If you have renamed the part from windows explorer instead of using "save as" inside SW, probably the pointers inside the part properties will still try to lookup at the old filename @part.sldprt instead of the new one @p2.sldprt . If you open and close the property window (the icon near ...

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berg_lauritz wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 11:12 am
Made 2 Manage is NOT CAPABLE of assigning a part# to DIFFERENT STATIONS.

How does that even work? What do you do for parts that are run on multiple different machines?

MJuric

I didn't vote because around here the answer is "In some places". Designers can change names, delete etc etc any place where the product is not released. So while we are working on a project all those files are in "Projects" folder. When the project is designed, detailed, checked...

MJuric

What it really boils down to at the end of the day is: how much changing of part numbers do you want to go through? That basically means the smarter you try to make a number the higher the probability you'll have to change it at some point due to a design change. For example, if a part number schem...

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I'll stop now, because there are so many arguments for/against something. The best cause of action imho is to sit together with the other departments & ask what they need/prefer/currently use and decide for something after knowing more. ^^^^^This. I just posted something similar in the other pl...

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I see...Can't just help someone for their sake?... I've always made the argument that altruism simply does not exist. All decisions made at the individual level are run thru a single brain and that brain is hard wired to protect itself. There will always be a reason that benefits that brain for any...

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This a continuation from "Solidworks Sequential Numbering" (https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=485&p=5723&hilit=ARRAY#p5723) changing the original file name (from Part2 to PA) and opening and closing the feature LPattern6, giving this results. Notice array of D. Wha...

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Ömür Tokman wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:01 am and after a while he tells us some of the ideas offered to him as if they were his own.

Are you working for my Wife?

MJuric

That's because there are some fundamental differences between our shops. And this is the key to why I think it's important that people stay away from the "This is the right way" mentality. The "right way" will be the way that most effectively, efficiently and economically gets t...

MJuric

What do you do for purchased parts that need to have motion such as hinges, hydraulic cylinders, and shocks? I don't particularly like to assign part numbers just for the purpose of allowing a cylinder to move since we buy it as one piece anyway. And I'm not not fond of virtual parts either. I'm th...

MJuric

This may not help you, but here every project has it's own number, and that number is used for every SW file. This is how we do it in the automation division here. Part number is essentially [project number][sub assembly number][part number in sequence] and then on weldments we add [cut list number...

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If a company wants to retain the IP that means the rights to it are theirs, i.e., the right to patent it (or swear you to secrecy for the trade secret route). However, if anyone at your company is an "inventor" of any part of the IP then they must be named on the patent. If they aren't th...

MJuric

Well, that depends on our size relative to the hole size, doesn't it. Are be filtered in or filtered out? :?: :lol: I know this planet is a near non existent chunk when compared to everything in the colander, but if it is any indication of other existing intelliget life we are definitely draining o...

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What did they pay for? This is the crucial question. Talk to your commercial manager and see what you are contractually obligated to deliver. No more, and no less. Bently ^^^^This. Furthermore all this should be spelled out in the quote and agreed upon before the PO. We have customer that demand th...

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Usually drawings and DXFs (for laser). In the rare case that we have a vendor asking for 3D data, we would supply native files. At some point in time we want to start testing Tech Pubs (SE's version of Composer, but more sophisticated ) and Electrical but that will be at least a year away. Another ...

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mike miller wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 1:55 pm So we are living inside a colander? Nice........

So does that mean the expansion of the universe can be explained by it draining thru the holes and eventually we are all headed to the other side?

MJuric

KaMei wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 1:48 amDoNotAnything.jpg

I looked at the bottom of a coffee cup once and it said "Microwave not safe". I thought it was some sort of fortune coffee cup telling me to stay away from the microwave...then I wondered which one. I pretty much steered clear of microwaves for a week or so.

MJuric

We're starting the process of starting to upgrade our numbering scheme and I'm wondering what approaches you take. To clarify, I'm not talking about smart vs. dumb numbers since that has already been discussed and we are currently planning to use a smart or semi-smart prefix followed by a dumb numb...

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Well, bending a little bit and adding a hole you have the Bottom Bracket area, or adding another tube you have a model with integrated seat post. Not with this round shape tho, just steel bikes use them... but yeah, doesn't look so much, it just resembled me a Giant TCR SL for some reason. lol Stil...

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Reminds me of this: image.png They have to put that it's food on the label? My wife is a vegan, largely for health and allergy reason, however I have regularly argued that some of the "Faux" products are FAR less healthy than the original despite the fact they are vegan. One day we were e...

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I saw a guy asking for advise about how to this on Reddit: image.png This kind of joint is pretty common on carbon road bikes, although they are more likely to use truncated NACA profiles and probably an advanced surfacing software NX/Catia/Alias/whatever (do you know what they use? lol) Not only t...

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Depends entirely on the product, environment etc etc. I've worked in/with some companies where the projects where rather small and linear and the information on the drawings was fairly specific to the project. Couple this with a work flow where the "Designer/Drafter" also tends to fill the...

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Thank you for stating that more clearly for me. This is one of my current projects, attempting to properly set up our planning system in our ERP. I spent an our on the phone with our vendor and he said two things. "70% of the planning module is setup, set it up wrong and it will spit out garba...

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All the marketing pictures come to mind of the organic shapes. I was tempted to search the term then paste images but no need, everyone has already seen them. They make pretty fliers and get peoples attention in the "What's new fliers" Problem is, Marketing shows something it can do but i...

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@matt, losing track of parts is my main hold back with MB SM. This also applies to weldment end caps, bolt plates, SM brackets, etc. However, I would love to find a working method for this. @MJuric, in your quotes above I understand what you're doing. But I don't think there's a way to pull quantit...

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