Standards Tuesday - Dimensioning Features Pt1

Posted on July 8th, 2008 in Dimensions, Drawings, Standards by The SW Geek

Another Tuesday is upon us and it’s time for another batch of fresh hot ASME goodness straight out of the oven. Today we are digging ever deeper into everyone’s favorite ASME Y14.5M-1994. Last week we finished on the Applications of Dimensions so this week will will begin digging into how to dimension features. As many types of features exist for a part there are as many techniques for dimensioning them. What are foreshortened radii? How do you dimension a part with rounded corners? What is a symmetrical outline? All these questions and more will be answered over the next couple of weeks. So grab your reading glasses and your thinking caps and lets go ahead and jump right in.

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Standards Tuesday - Application of Dimensions Pt2

Posted on July 1st, 2008 in Dimensions, Drawings, Standards by The SW Geek

Last week for Standards Tuesday I introduced you to the application of dimensions per Section 1.7 of ASME Y14.5M-1994. If you missed it I highly recommend you go back and read it, Standards Tuesday - Application of Dimensions, since it covers such important topics such as Dimension Lines, Extension lines and spacing of dimensions. Today we will finish up Section 1.7 before we move on to Dimensioning Features next week. For the sake of full disclosure, I must tell you that all my post in regards to Standards Tuesday are merely my interpretation of the standards. I take special care in ensuring that I understand each section described in the standards before making my write up. To make it easier on those who are reading their own copy of the standard while reading my post, I try to maintain the same section headings with my own description of each. With that said, let us move on to the exciting parts.

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Standards Tuesday - Application of Dimensions

Posted on June 24th, 2008 in Dimensions, Drawings, Standards by The SW Geek

Today my kiddies, we begin covering the application of dimensions as described in Section 1.7 of ASME Y14.5M-1994. There is a lot of information to cover so I will break it up over 2 weeks. Like I said before ASME standards are easy to handle in small doses. So pinch your nose and hold your breath, here comes your weekly dose of ASME goodness.

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Standards Tuesday - Fundamental Rules of Dimensioning

Posted on June 17th, 2008 in Dimensions, Drawings, Standards by The SW Geek

Over the past few weeks I have written about the different ASME standards that impact areas of your drawing including the Drawing Title, General Notes & BOMs.  All of these pale in comparison to ASME Y14.5M-1994, Dimensioning and Tolerancing. I live by this standard; it has been both good to me and the bane of my existence. For the rest of you who actually have lives and don’t like to spend their free time reading standards, I am here to help. Over the coming weeks I will be covering various aspects of everyone’s favorite standard.

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Linking Dimensions in Sketches

Posted on May 19th, 2008 in Dimensions, Sketches, SolidWorks by admin

When you are working on designs, there are times when it is necessary to link dimensions. Linking dimensions associates a word or word phrase to a number value that other dimensions in a model can then reference. This is an especially handy tool when you are dealing with complex models that have multiple features that may share the same value. When you update one of the values, all the features or dimension that are linked are then updated at once.

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