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Creating P&ID Using AutoCAD

Piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) is used extensively in process industries. This article will describe the procedure for creating P&ID using AutoCAD.

Published by Suvo (8760 pts) on Jul 26, 2009 to
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Inserting a Word Document into AutoCAD in Five Steps

Correctly Inserting a Word document into an AutoCAD drawing is bit tricky. This AutoCAD tutorial will explain how to do that.

Published by Suvo (8760 pts) on Jul 25, 2009 to
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What is Suppressed Geometry in Unigraphics?

Using of suppressed geometry is very much helpful if not inevitable for handling large Unigraphics model. In this Unigraphics tutorial, we will discuss about creation and usages of UG suppress geometry.

Published by Suvo (8760 pts) on Jun 28, 2009 to
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ProE Config Options: Config.pro and Config.win

The default settings of the ProE GUI and some of the options can be changed using ProE Config options. Config.win handles customization of ProE GUI, whereas Config.pro handles customization of Pro Engineer operations settings.

Published by Suvo (8760 pts) on Jun 23, 2009 to
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ProE Tutorial: How to Make a Bill of Material

While dealing with a huge assembly, creating a manual bill of material is a hectic and error-prone job. ProE has a solution for creating automated BOM table - you just need to specify the attributes and that’s it. This ProE tutorial will talk about how to use it.

Published by Suvo (8760 pts) on Jun 23, 2009 to
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Simple FEA using a Spreadsheet

There are a lot of complex FEA softwares out there and sometimes the simplest tool such as a spreadsheet can be used to obtain results quickly. This article will run through a quick example of how a spreadsheet can be used as a FEA tool using circular references.

Published by anoor (682 pts) on Jun 19, 2009 to
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Using Basic 3D Command Combinations to Create Complex Models - Part 2

CAD applications like ProE and Solidworks as well as many others have extensive complex functions such as sweeps and surface functions that can be used to create objects such as auto body parts and other thin surfaces. Another method of creating these complex models is to use simple features.

Published by anoor (682 pts) on Jun 16, 2009 to
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Product Data Management vs Product Lifecycle Management

Product Data Management (PDM) systems and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems both are used extensively in today’s product development organizations. As the name indicates both the term deals with product management. PDM and PLM both related to product design and management.

Published by Suvo (8760 pts) on May 28, 2009 to
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AutoCAD Dynamic Blocks: How to Create and Use Them

AutoCAD dynamic blocks are sometimes called "intelligent AutoCAD blocks" because of the fact that you can change it without exploding while inserting it to your AutoCAD drawings. This AutoCAD 2009 tutorial of AutoCAD dynamic blocks will hold good for older versions of AutoCAD as well.

Published by Suvo (8760 pts) on May 21, 2009 to
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How to Create Gtol Dimension in ProE

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T or Gtol) dimension are very important information for manufacturing and fabrication drawings. In Pro Engineer GD&T symbols can be incorporated either in ProE model or directly in ProE drawing.

Published by Suvo (8760 pts) on May 19, 2009 to
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