301 Top Tips for Design Engineers
To Help You 'Measure Up' in the World of Engineering
Published on 26. February 2021
176 pages
978-1-5289-9448-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book is aimed at new mechanical design engineers - to improve your employability and to help you 'hit the ground running'. It also contains useful information and checklists for more experienced designers. It's a quick read, listing real-world, non-academic, practical experiences which you won't find in an engineer's technical reference book. It includes design and drafting guides, good advice for everyday design and general office life, advice on job interviews, how to handle meetings, insights into other departments, looking after yourself in a work environment and more.
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Chris Morris
301 Top Tips for Design Engineers
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02/2021
Austin Macauley Publishers
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright Information ©
- Book One
- Introduction
- My Career
- My Design Experience
- In the Office
- Setting Up Your Office Systems
- Company Procedures
- Office Guides
- General Office Tips
- Estimating Costs
- Drawing Creation Cost Estimating
- Tooling Cost Estimating
- Setting Up a Project
- Design Meetings
- Product Design
- Concept and Scheme Designs
- Manufacturing and Production
- Quality and Inspection
- Health and Safety
- Industrial Design
- Maintenance
- Procurement
- Project Planning
- Sales and Marketing
- Basic Design Guide
- Basic Drafting Guide
- Productionise the Drawing
- Looking After Yourself and Others!
- In the Office
- Interactions with Others
- Your Mental Health
- Sayings, Abbreviations and Jargon
- Choosing a Company to Work For
- Job Interviews
- Tips if you are the interviewer
- A Few Curriculum Vitae Tips
- Managing Managers
- Communication
- General Advice
- Some Engineering Books And A Good Website
- Appendix A
- Royal Ordnance Nottingham
- A Potted History
- My Early Days at the Factory
- Appendix B
- A CAD and Plm User Guide Example
- Book Two
- User Guide for NX CAD and Teamcenter PLM
- Introduction
- Section - One CAD Best Practices
- CAD Modelling Requirements
- The Basics
- Modelling
- Assembly Modelling
- New Part Creation
- Part Naming Convention
- View Naming Convention
- Sketch Naming Convention
- Create Basic Shape of Solid Model
- Add Feature Detail
- Space Claim Models
- Assembly Model Creation
- Large Assemblies Management
- Drafting
- Native Unigraphics Drawing Frames
- Section - Two: Tips and Techniques
- Colour Plots
- Plot Reduction Scale Chart
- Plot Que Manager
- Deleting Tmp Files
- To View Disk Usage
- To Cancel a CAD Process
- Drawing Frame Sizes
- Grip Programs
- Changing Your Unix Password
- Listing Assembly Model Components
- (UG Print Component)
- Converting Unigraphics File to Millimetres or Inches
- CAD Fonts
- Weight/Mass Analysis
- Converting Windows Metafile (.wmf) to CAD .prt File
- Importing PC Spreadsheet Data into CAD Spreadsheet
- Using a Host Workstation
- Moving Objects Between Drawing Sheets
- Reference Sets Not Working?
- To Find Your Own IP Address
- Converting CAD Files from UNIX to NT
- Drawing Checking List
- Item List Order
- Creating PC Dynamic Shaded Image from CAD Model
- Using Tar and Zip and Ftp'ing to Another Site - Example
- Copying a Spreadsheet onto A UG Drawing
- A Window Has Slid Off the Screen - How to Retrieve
- Section - Three: File Transfers
- Some Unix Commands
- Transferring File between PC and CAD using File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- Converting CAD File to Parasolid File
- Converting CAD File to IGES File
- Converting CAD File to STEP File
- Converting CAD File to DXF File
- Converting CAD File to HPGL2 File
- Converting CAD File to CGM File
- Converting CAD File to Rapid Prototyping File(.stl)
- Section - Four: PLM Usage
- Logging onto a CAD Workstation
- Creating a New Item
- Creating a UG Master
- Creating a UG Part
- Creating an Assembly Model in PLM
- Adding Common Parts to an Assembly Model
- Up-Issuing Item Revisions in PLM
- Creating a Document in PLM
- Importing Native Unigraphics Assemblies into PLM
- Importing Scanned or Unigraphics Pre-Version 10 Files into PLM
- Importing Pattern Frames into PLM
- Emergency Export from PLM
- Exporting PLM Assembly Files into Native Unigraphics
- Exporting a Single File from PLM to Native UG
- Importing a Single UG Native Part File into PLM
- Using PLM on a Remote Workstation
- PLM Document Version Mismatch Problem
