Where can we download a copy of this programme?

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Where i can download this!!

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Originally Posted by premhari

Where i can download this!!

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He didn't answer me in 2003 so I doubt he'll answer in 2009 ! ■

Where can I get this program???? ■

Originally Posted by Surezh

Herewith im attaching the excel sheet of Cone development.

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Suresh Anandakumar S

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I am mechanical engineer & interested to understand steel fabrication drawings & their calculation. Can you please please advise , what to read to understand the design calaculation of ducts, chutes, steel bins, transition pieces, & their developement etc. Also, to calculate plate thickness, expansion joints, supprt details, stiffener and also pressure drop, insulation requirement for high temperature application.

Please send some other useful engineering excel sheet for calculation.

Thanks in advance

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Originally Posted by mechanicalconcultant

steel

I am mechanical engineer & interested to understand steel fabrication drawings & their calculation. Can you please please advise , what to read to understand the design calaculation of ducts, chutes, steel bins, transition pieces, & their developement etc. Also, to calculate plate thickness, expansion joints, supprt details, stiffener and also pressure drop, insulation requirement for high temperature application.

Please send some other useful engineering excel sheet for calculation.

Thanks in advance

Regards

mechancialconsultant@gmail.com

It is not clear to me exactly what you need.

If it is an understanding of sheet metalwork and developing flat shapes that can be pressed into the required form i.e. square to round transitions etc, then this is a craft skill and training may be available from your local technical college. To accompany this practical training I would recommend that you purchase "The Geometry of Sheet Metal Work" by A. Dickason which is generally accepted to be one of the standard texts on the subject.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Geometry-She.../dp/0582009618 ■

Gentlemen,

Any 3D modeling program worth its salt should have an unwrap feature in its repertoire.

It is only recently that I got my SW feature to work on conic sections after reading the article which explained that the cutting edge I was using to unwrap from was not in fact a straight edge. Once I got the hang of that I had no further problem.

With a normal 3D modeler, outside add on packages are quite superfluous.

Persevere with what you've got.■

Originally Posted by louispanjang

With a normal 3D modeler, outside add on packages are quite superfluous.

Persevere with what you've got.

Umm, not sure I agree with that statement. Sometimes it's necessary to use bespoke sheet metal programmes in order to get all the options. I'm told Solid Edge is the best for sheet metal but I can't say for sure.

That said, sometimes it's nice to do on a 2D CAD programme what you used to lay out full size on a piece of plate. Very satisfying ■

Solid Edge started off as the best for sheet metal but there are so many releases (you'd think they were owned by Nokia ) its not so easy to say any more. One thing for sure: if its better in sheet metal then its the only place its good for anything.

I haven't worked in 2D since before the turn of the century and can never admit that drawing flame cutter profiles with a kerf allowance gave me much of an inner glow. Probably because I was overshadowed by Kieth Barber at Anderson Mavor (Strathclyde) who made a development for a Jeep underpan; got it cut; fitted it; found a market and quit engineering. Good move. ■

As I said previously, don't really know about Solid Edge, just comments made to us AFTER we opted for Inventor. And if you want to do sheet metal work WITHOUT add-ons, don't buy Inventor. Actually, it's suprising what you can do with SketchUp (because it's a surface modeller).

If you've got a plasma or laser profiler when most seem to come with software that includesa multitude of standard profiles, cones, T's equal un-equal inline offset, Y's etc, etc,etc.

But manual CAD layouts I've done before have been within a gnat's of some of the 'professional' software, albeit taking more man hours. ■

Dear Surezh,

thanks for your excel file, but the file is not opening, asking for password. how to open it.

kinldy reply.

regards,

Vinay Patel ■