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Drawings represent final product

September 12, 2009 in CAD, SolidWorks

One comment I’ve seen about ASME suggests that it is geared towards fully detailing product definition. One trap that rookie designers and engineers will often fall into is over-specifying their parts by placing manufacturing process information on the drawing.

The new designer may do this because maybe a machine shop made the part wrong and [...]

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Dimensional limits related to an origin

August 7, 2009 in CAD, SolidWorks

In SolidWorks 2007 drawing mode, the ability to change the size of individual dimension arrows (so that they were different than the drawing) was limited to a tricky use of favorites. Starting with SolidWorks 2008, that situation improved. SolidWorks now allows the user to set the size for individual dimension arrows. For [...]

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It’s All Over!

July 25, 2009 in CAD, SolidWorks

ASME Y14.5M-2009 has been out for a little while now (after almost a year’s delay). There are significant improvements and clarifications. One addition in particular caught my attention, the ALL OVER symbol. When applied to a Profile of a Surface, it pretty much defines the entire shape of a part in every direction (not just [...]

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Dimensioning of Slots (SW 2009 and ASME Y14.5M)

July 7, 2009 in CAD, SolidWorks

Ever since the addition of the slot tool, SolidWorks almost seems like a whole new software for the those who design machined parts. Adding the functionality was one over due accomplishment. Another accomplishment was making sure SolidWorks supports standard methods for dimensioning slots.

ASME Y14.5M-1994 paragraph 1.8.10 and figure 1-35 provide three methods for the dimensioning …

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