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Building a Stapler – Anvil, by Alex Ruiz

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:56:47 +0000

“On Friday, I went over the procedure for creating the forming tool for the stapler anvil. Today, as a special Sunday post, I will go over the rest of the anvil. The anvil will be made as a sheet metal component so we can use the forming tool that was created on Friday.” …

Keep Reading: Building a Stapler – Anvil – The SolidWorks Geek.

Published by Alex Ruiz on 8/31/08 on The SolidWorks Geek

Flatten A Sticker, by Matt Lombard

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:37:19 +0000

“It’s interesting sometimes the lengths you have to go to solve a little problem. I frequently get emails or calls from folks who maybe I’ve met once upon a time, and maybe not. A lot of them ask me to solve some sort of a problem they’ve got. Sometimes the problems are interesting. The other day I got one that should have been easy to solve, but wasn’t. Or maybe I was just looking for the complex solution. Anyway, here it is. Maybe you can learn something, and maybe you can teach me something. I’m sure there were other ways to solve this, but this is the way I did it.” …

Keep Reading: Dezignstuff — Flatten a Sticker

Published by Matt Lombard on 7/13/09 on Dezignstuff

Creating A Tube With Normal To Surface End Cutoffs: Option 2, by Rob Jensen

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:56:17 +0000

“Sometimes it takes reading a blog post to generate another blog post. Hence, this post.

I had a user group member ask me this same question at a meeting. I got to see exactly what he was trying to do when Mike Puckett and I went on a customer visit. Then today, Anna posts a way to do this on her blog..! So I thought I’d give you another option to capture the same result.” …

Keep Reading: Creating A Tube With Normal To Surface End Cutoffs: Option 2 | Rob Jensen’s Blog.

Published by Rob Jensen on 6/1/09 on Rob Jensen’s Blog

Let’s Talk Sheetmetal, by Jeff Mirisola

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:15:47 +0000

“I really like the Sheetmetal functionality in SolidWorks. I like that it’s fairly intuitive and does a nice job of creating your part. There is one aspect of it, however, that many people seem to miss. That would be the unfold/fold commands.” …

Keep Reading: Let’s Talk Sheetmetal | Jeff’s Tool Shed.

Published by Jeff Mirisola on 9/24/08 on Jeff’s Tool Shed

How to make a flat pattern for a tube notch., by Ben Eadie

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:09:48 +0000

“How to make a flat pattern for a tube notch.” …

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Published by Ben Eadie on 4/9/09 on Solidmentor.com