Over the past few years my career has evolved from 3D design to full-on CAD systems management. In fact a couple of months ago I started a brand new position as the Product Structure and CAD Systems Manager for a Southern California solar power company. Unfortunately this new position has required my full attention since I started and honestly [...]

You don’t need a CAD Manager to do the right thing. Miss Me? Things have been quite here lately and I have a very good reason for it. A little over a month ago I started a new job as the CAD Manager for a growing Solar Power company in Southern California. I was brought [...]

When I started The SolidWorks Geek six months ago, I wanted to share the benefit of my experience with SolidWorks and ASME with the rest of the engineering community. I started Standards Tuesday, later Standards Wednesday, to introduce readers to drawing specifications that control our daily engineering lives. I never expected the response to the [...]

Today will be a short article continuing on where we left off last week when we covering the Limits of Size. Section 2.7 of ASME Y14.5-1994 only relates to the Limits of Size and limits of size do not control the orientation or location of features. Section 2.7.3 goes into detail about this and we [...]

Don’t you just love Wednesdays? Monday is a distant memory, Friday is just in sight and of course…Standards Wednesday. If you have never heard of Standards Wednesday…where have you been? On Wednesdays, I try my best to break down different standards and specifications that impact our daily life as engineers, designers and drafters. For the [...]

We are back this week with some more ASME goodness after taking a short break. This week is all about Tolerance Accumulation per Section 2.6 of ASME Y14.5. You maybe asking yourself right now, “What is Tolerance Accumulation?”. Tolerance accumulation, or tolerance stack-up, is the dimensional variance between two features of a part based on [...]

Last week I started covering Section 2 of ASME Y14.5-1994, General Tolerancing and Related Principles, with the post Standards Wednesday – General Tolerancing Pt1. This week we will continue to explore this section of the ASME Y14.5 with Section 2.3, Tolerance Expression; Section 2.4, Interpretation of Limits and Section 2.5, Single Limits. Section 2 is [...]

Another Wednesday is upon us and it’s time for another installment of Standards Wednesday. This week we get to jump in right into Section 2 of ASME Y14.5, General Tolerancing and Related Principles. If you are new to Standards Wednesday, let me explain it to you. Every week I take a different part of an [...]

It’s Wednesday and you what that means…another Standards Wednesday! Woo-Hoo! What better way to celebrate the hump day then with some ASME goodness? Last week we finally completed our four part series on dimensioning of features per Section 1.8 of ASME Y14.5M-1994. This week we move onto the next section, Section 1.9, Location of Features. [...]

There’s been a whole lotta shakin’ going on here in SoCal but it’s going to take more then a little rumbling to keep me from bringing you some ASME goodness. This week we finally get to finish up on dimensioning features per Section 1.8 of ASME Y14.5M-1994. Make sure you go back and read the [...]