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WNC-SWUG SoapBox: November 2008
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Friday, November 21, 2008. Practical Sheet Metal Design Part 2. Practical Sheet Metal Design Part 2. Tolerances for Sheet Metal parts:. If there is a lesson in that story it is this; know what the tolerance is before you waste a lot of time. The factors that come into play in sheet metal are numerous but let’s just look at one now. To see the difference between ferrous and non-ferrous gauges. For more information on reasonable sheet metal tolerances see this page. Links to this post. 3 Double clicking th...
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WNC-SWUG SoapBox: December 2008
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008. Sheet Metal Miter Flange Hint. When using the miter flange command in SolidWorks you have the option of setting a ‘Gap Distance’ as seen in this picture:. The gap distance was set as .069296 and the resulting ‘corner gap’ is .049. If you are wishing to add spotweld tab flanges that would fold inside of these existing flanges you need to have a ‘corner gap’ of slightly more than the material thickness. Where .049 is the desired corner gap. 8730;( .049. 8730;( .049. 160; ...
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WNC-SWUG SoapBox: October 2008
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Thursday, October 23, 2008. Playing around with SW2009. I just found something that I hadn't read or seen concerning SolidWorks 2009. Under VIEW you will see a new entry call WORKSPACE. Here you will find picks for Default, Widescreen and Dual Monitor. Clicking on Widescreen gives you a vertical command manager. This makes more efficient use of the widescreen monitors that seem to be the norm now. Check it out! Have you seen something new in 2009 that you didn't know about? Links to this post. That ...
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WNC-SWUG SoapBox: I'm back and this is why I've been away.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009. I'm back and this is why I've been away. I know it doesn't look like much but it is the 3rd one I've done since the last post. I can't tell you much about it other than say it is a glove box to handle some rather 'hot' materials. I've been doing 11.5 hour days 6 days a week for the last two weeks. I'm starting to dream in the SolidWorks. Update to all SWUG. Members: I have to get Wes' okay on this before it will be official but I'm thinking of letting the WNC. What do you think?
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WNC-SWUG SoapBox: February 2009
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009. The blog has moved! Update you links the blog is now located at: www.wnc-swug.weebly.com. This link is also to the website of the WNC/ Asheville SWUG. This will be the last post at this site. Links to this post. Wednesday, February 4, 2009. I thought I'd mention a couple of changes to the blog page. I added a Google Calendar widget but I can't get it to link to the newly created WNC. Calendar. Does anyone have any experience with this? The keyboard light goes out but now I'm t...
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WNC-SWUG SoapBox: September 2008
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008. Initial Thoughts on DriveWorksXpress. Although this is obviously a very powerful and useful tool as evidenced from all the demos and videos floating around on the WWW I have found some issues. 1 You can never find a tutorial or demo that does exactly what you are wishing to do. (Like how would anyone know what I want to do anyway? What I’ve learned:. 2 Limit or eliminate arrays of features with dimensions that need to be driven. I had several arrays with only 3 elements i...
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WNC-SWUG SoapBox: March 2008
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Friday, March 28, 2008. My CAD History – Part 2. My CAD History – Part 2. The switch to PC based CAD was a big step. At the time there was basically the AutoDesk products and that was all. There was talk of a CAD program designed for and around Microsoft Windows but it wasn’t ready for primetime. I guess this transition was driven by two things; 1. We had a customer who required that we provide them with all the drawings associated with their parts on their drawing formats which were AutoCad. After a few...
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WNC-SWUG SoapBox: April 2008
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008. The Power of a Blog. The Power of a Blog. If you follow Matt’s Blog. You have seen the power blogging at its best. What is ‘Power Blogging’? It is blogging that causes change. Matt voiced an opinion about a SolidWorks Corporation practice. We commented, SolidWorks listened and the practice was changed. As Matt points out it wasn’t necessarily only what he wrote but the reaction from us, his readers and users of the software. If you listen to Twit. Links to this post. As of righ...
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