How does a design go from the computer screen to something you hold in your hand? Not being able to fully answer this question is a huge risk in manufacturing because . One of the important tools ...

One of the challenges facing precision manufacturers and their medical device manufacturing partners is the increasing feature complexity of tight-tolerance parts. These complex geometries can result ...

Abstract: Tolerancing is an important step in the process of designing a mechanism. There are two tolerancing approaches: The tolerance analysis and the tolerances synthesis. The first consists in ...

Companies in nearly every industry save time and money when designers and manufacturers pin down product requirements and production capabilities early in development. Mechanical-tolerance ...

A new standard establishes guidelines for documenting digital 3D models. The recent ASME standard Y14.41 establishes requirements, exceptions, and guidelines for documenting digital solid models in 3D ...

Abstract: This paper studies the characteristics of machining-process-dimension-chain (MDC) and parallel dimension chain, especially the special two-ring-dimension-chain in MDCs. It emphasizes that ...

If you want to have your part designs fabricated, you’re going to need to provide the manufacturer with a technical drawing. Yes, 3D printers and many modern machine tools rely on toolpaths created ...

Engineering Drawings are the fundamental method used to convey technical information to manufacturing and inspection. Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T) is a common manufacturing language ...