301 Top Tips for Design Engineers : To Help You 'Measure Up' in the World of Engineering.

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.

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