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More from Gerald Davis
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Part marking matters
- By Gerald Davis
- Dec 3, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis walks a CAD operator through the steps to set up an efficient way to apply part marking to any design.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Productivity, reliability, and responsiveness
- By Gerald Davis
- Nov 9, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis discusses when formality should enter a CAD operator's workflow and offers up an example of how a simple CAD task might go.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Handling imported data during sheet metal design
- By Gerald Davis
- Oct 19, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis is ready to rip into the process of converting imported 3-D parts to flattened parts.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Setting up a costing tool
- By Gerald Davis
- Sep 7, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Cost analysis within 3-D modeling software won't replace cost estimating, but it still can be a helpful tool.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Design optimization
- By Gerald Davis
- Aug 3, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis begins his exploration on how cost management tools in 3-D modeling software can be used to deliver cost-efficient and functional part designs.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Modeling with product variation as the design intent
- By Gerald Davis
- Jun 26, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis provides a guide to connecting dimensions and custom properties to equations, which will make part design changes much easier to deal with down the road.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Modeling with product documentation as the design intent
- By Gerald Davis
- Jun 13, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis focuses on creating better illustrations and models to make life easier for parties involved in downstream operations.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Bill of materials construction in project documentation--PartII
- By Gerald Davis
- May 3, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis has populated the bills of material with data and now focuses on the model that will accompany the BOM to the manufacturing floor.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Bill-of-materials construction inproject documentation--Part I
- By Gerald Davis
- Apr 16, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis takes a look at the appropriate way to construct a bill of materials as he continues his cutting table project.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Customization in project documentation
- By Gerald Davis
- Mar 12, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis reveals the most convenient way to set up a bills of material and related title blocks.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Project documentation
- By Gerald Davis
- Feb 13, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis explores the world of exploded views as he prepares the 3-D model to be much more than just a graphical representation of the part to be fabricated.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Project definition
- By Gerald Davis
- Jan 10, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis focuses his 3-D CAD skill on designing a welding table. He invites readers to participate in the creation of this support structure.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Library features
- By Gerald Davis
- Dec 20, 2011
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis shows CAD users how to create a feature for the library so that it may be used in other models.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Document management and revision control
- By Gerald Davis
- Nov 30, 2011
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis offers fabricators guidance in dealing with an engineering change order to a 3-D CAD model.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Producing a 2-D flat layout from 3-D data
- By Gerald Davis
- Oct 20, 2011
- Shop Management
- Article
After demonstrating how a 3-D concept model can be turned into a production model, which is useful for as long as the project has the green light, columnist Gerald Davis takes a look at how you can take a concept model and turn it into a simple flat layout for CNC fabricating equipment.
- Podcasting
- Podcast:
- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 04/16/2024
- Running Time:
- 63:29
In this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, Caleb Chamberlain, co-founder and CEO of OSH Cut, discusses his company’s...
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