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Re: Fastener with preload for 3 components
What defines how to, "constrain everything properly" depends on what you're after results wise and what you want the joint to capture physics wise. That being said, the most basic method for doing it...
View ArticlePizza, Robots, & Modeling @ PTC Headquarters
Monday night May 12 FTC teams from the Boston area came to PTC headquarters for a "Pizza, Robots, & Modeling" Workshop. FTC teams from Natick, Needham, Lexington, Sharon, and Lincoln brought their...
View ArticleRe: Creo 2 - Geometric Tolerances/Annotations
Mike,Maybe Antonius will chime in, but here are some threads about using the GD&T built into Creo versus manually adding the GD&T to drawings: http://communities.ptc.com/message/185437#185437...
View ArticleRe: How to import MS Word documents to Arbortext Editor
We have been converting Word documents into Arbortext Editor for years now. We have also been searcing for a way to do this automatically. Unfortunately, the only way we have achieved 100% conversion...
View ArticleRe: Creo Parametric
FILE - OPTIONS - SELECTION then check the "Enable preselection highlighting". hope that helps
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MathCAD - not a valid XML worksheet error
I have been using MathCAD 14 for several years and it does an excellant job for me. I don't make any complex calculations, just simple algebra. I just got a new computer and I installed my MathCAD14...
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I see my snip does not show in the previous post. The error is "The requested file is not a valid Mathcad XML worksheet."
View ArticleRe: MathCAD - not a valid XML worksheet error
Yes, you can't simply copy and paste pictures in your post - you are supposed to use the appropriate icon to insert a picture.Can you provide one of those worksheets? If you click on "Use advanced...
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Optional Stop (M01) before tool change on lathe
New Creo user here, taking a ton of time to find where Creo has hidden many things. Is there an easy way to add M01s before tool changes without screwing around in the tool motions tab? Trying to...
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Optimizing drill bit geometry
I have a customer asking if Creo can be used to optimize drill bit geometry. What combination of angles for the different edges will give the best performace for a certain material. Attached is an...
View ArticleRe: Fastener with preload for 3 components
Scott, The pressure loads act in the plane normal to the contacts between caps and brackets I presume. I would consider putting some bearing representation in as the forces applied will follow the...
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Re: Is there a more efficient way to solve the Colebrook-White Equation?
Here is a bit late pretty much the same as Alan showed done in Prime with your data. MC15 plots just look better, though, and are much easier to format.
View ArticleRe: Fatal error message
1. Open C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo 2.0\Common Files\<datecode> e.g. M100\text2. You will find a file named as config3. Open config in wordpad and type enable_opengl_fbo no4. Save and Close the...
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If a 2D matrix is plotted the plot type in Prime 2 had to be set to waterfall plot explicitely to make it work the way we are used from older Mathcad. In Prime 3 waterfallplot is chosen automatically...
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Thanks, Alan. That was the magic I was looking for. I got closer to the matrix I wanted with the augment command, but that was brute force. Your solution was simple and elegant.
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Thanks, Werner. Now to apply this to the bigger worksheet I am working on.
View ArticleNeumann Boundary Conditions
Hello folks, I'm trying to learn how to specify Neumann boundary conditions using numol to solve a PDE. As you may be aware, Prime 3.0 does not feature Pdesolve so if we want to solve a PDE, we need to...
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Re: Just moved to Creo 2.0 ...... I HATE IT!!! Does any else?
.....a sharp stick to poke yourself in the eye with? It's been working for me.....
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