Posts Tagged ‘routing’

Routing Quick Tip: Flange directly attached to a Tee

Monday, February 14th, 2011

In SolidWorks Routing have you ever wanted to just have a FLANGE attached/mounted DIRECTLY to a Tee ?
It’s EASY !! (if you know how…)

Add your TEE as you normally would and you will automatically get a “stub” coming out of the tee, (or two stubs depending on how you dropped the tee), now drag and drop a FLANGE onto the end of the stub. To get rid of the pipe between the two, RIGHT CLICK and choose REMOVE PIPE.
The Flange will now be butted right up against the tee !
This is also great in many other instances too (tees to tees, etc.)

Like I said EASY, when you know how…

Randy Simmons

Randy Simmons
Application Engineer, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

Al Capone’s manufacturing process

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

After looking at how Capone tracked his training documents you have to wonder if even the mob was afraid of ISO?!

Come on Geraldo, it is getting cold in here in Al Capone’s server room. (Kept at a cool 50 degrees Fahrenheit for maximum chip performance.)  Go to the SolidWorks models that Capone used to retrofit his famous bullet proof Cadillac. Can you find any?

“Can I find any? With Enterprise’s search features, is that a joke Engineering Data Specialist man? Yes, it appears all of Capone’s parts marked for manufacturer have an item card that looks like this:
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It appears he set up the card to track not only where the parts were in his shop, but how long there were at each station. Since items can go through workflows just as any other document, Capone was able to streamline his manufacturing process with SolidWorks Enterprise PDM workflows! This show is going to win me another Emmy!”

It might Geraldo, I think this series may win a Bloggie too…anything else in Al Capone’s vault?

Jeff Sweeney

Jeff Sweeney
Engineering Data Specialist
3DVision Technologies

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