You know you are getting old when...

The hourglass goes away on a drawing and you can't remember what you
were doing before the rebuild started.

You have to take notes before a rebuild to remind yourself what you
were doing when you hit CRTL Q.

 

true, so true

thanks for reminding me of my 50th birthday last week

peace, Diego

 

Is it a bad sign that I'm encountering this in my mid 30's?

 

So thats what the new tablets are for with the 2007 upgrades

 

A bad sign of what....

Bo

 

And to think that I thought 2007 wasn't ready for big time.

Today was a good example of why I forget what I was doing. In a drawing
I moved a section view, got the hourglass, shuffled some papers, took
them up to the mezzanine for filing, unpacked two new computers,
carried a box of old drawings to the dumpster, then went back to my
desk to wait some more for the hour glass. Now if I could just remember
what it was I was going to do after moving the section view.

 

I have ran across a design issue. Our company makes cement mixers. I
want to model the flights so they can be flat pattered. The issue is
the section of the internal screw has a "J" bend nested on an several
arc segments. The "J" bends speed mixing of the slurry. Also there are
"J" bends on the discharge side to speed the exit of material. I can
make the flight as a solid model but when I try to make it into sheet
metal it gives me an error it can't be made. Is there any sites who
works with screws in SW? This is a simple concept a screw in a drum but
complex to make because of the tapered cone used for the discharging the
slurry.


Thanks

Steve

 

The guys who are experts in developed surfaces from flat plate are the
designers who do boat and ship hull design.

There are a few people in this group who have noted they are in yacht
design and maybe one of them could address this if you post it in a
separate new topic.

Bo

 

Humor indeed makes us think a bit more about the "real" situation.

I really do not know whether I am going to put 2007 on my desktop yet.

Other things have a priority, and they cost a lot more than the SWKs
maintenance $s, so I may just have to see what works with 2006 for
quite awhile longer, and then maybe indeed, it will by 2008 by then.

Bo

 

Humor??? I wish it was. Wait a minute. What were we discussing anyway?

 

My bread and butter is helical augers. Can you describe the J-Bend or
point me to a picture?

 

The "J" bends are on the inside of the auger Picture an auger in a drum
and a hole in the middle with "J" bends blending the slurry.

Steve

 

We have 07 but its not installed,,, I start bitching so 07 will do a
flange along a non-straight edge?

Thanks

 

It will do a flange on a curved edge, but the curve looks like it has to
be on a flat face (other than the thickness), so you couldn't pull a
flange off of a shape like the top of a mailbox, but you could use a
flange to make the top of the mailbox if you start from the end of the
mailbox, if that makes any sense.

 

Is this thread showing up hijacked on other newsreaders besides Google?

 

Yes, the Mixer Flights is in there. I'm using Mozilla

 

That would work.
Thanks

 

Google has a problem then.

 

Or Steve hit Reply, changed subject line and ?

 

I suspect that's the problem - I'm seeing them mixed here from
teranews.

WT