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More from Gerald Davis
- From The Fabricator
Navigating the design for manufacturing and industrial design worlds
- By Gerald Davis
- Dec 4, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis discusses challenges in product development, starting with communication between job shops and inventors who might turn into customers.
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Using props for adding scale to a presentation
- By Gerald Davis
- Nov 8, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis discusses the use of a poser and other props for presenting design ideas.
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Where’s the best place to start modeling?
- By Gerald Davis
- Oct 24, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis discusses uses of the world coordinate system, user coordinate systems, and split-body modeling to create assemblies.
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Configuration tables and parametric links allow for quick switching between product variations
- By Gerald Davis
- Sep 18, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis discusses transforming a model for a single design into several models for a product line.
- From The Fabricator
What sheet metal shops wish you knew: Hems, jogs, and forming tools
- By Gerald Davis
- Aug 16, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis continues a discussion of 3-D CAD and precision sheet metal manufacturing in Part IV of a four-part series. In this installment he focuses on the merits and demerits of hems, jogs, and forming tools.
- From The Fabricator
What to know about sheet metal bend radius and minimum flange
- By Gerald Davis
- Aug 5, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis continues a discussion of 3-D CAD and metal manufacturing including sheet metal bend radius and sheet metal flange. Learn more.
- From The Fabricator
What sheet metal shops wish you knew: Reasonable tolerances, grain direction, and the base flange
- By Gerald Davis
- Jun 7, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis continues a discussion of 3-D CAD and precision sheet metal manufacturing in Part II of a four-part series. In this installment, he focuses on reasonable tolerances, grain direction, and the base flange.
- From The Fabricator
What sheet metal shops wish you knew: Batch size, setup, and thickness
- By Gerald Davis
- May 3, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis discusses 3-D CAD and precision sheet metal manufacturing in a four-part series. The first installment covers batch production. The accuracy of things made from rolled sheet stock and design rules for sheet metal are topics in future editions.
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Translating design goals into CAD techniques
- By Gerald Davis
- Apr 5, 2017
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis discusses a design process involving sheet metal, welding, use of off-the-shelf parts, and simulation of fluid level. He also highlights the use of the Contour Select tool in multibody modeling.
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: The design intent battle between visualization and fabrication
- By Gerald Davis
- Mar 1, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis compares assembly modeling to multibody modeling.
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Design changes involve changes to CAD hierarchy
- By Gerald Davis
- Jan 27, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
To assist with smooth transitions during design changes, columnist Gerald Davis shows a work flow for changing a part into an assembly.
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Product development
- By Gerald Davis
- Jan 9, 2017
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis shows a work flow for creating two versions of the same product.
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Sheet metal modeling
- By Gerald Davis
- Dec 7, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis shows seven different ways to deliver the same 3-D model.
- From The Fabricator
Job shop estimating: A historical perspective Step 2
- By Gerald Davis
- Nov 28, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis continues a series of columns that address one of the most important activities related to shop profitability: job estimating. In this second installment, he describes how an estimator can use the shop’s manufacturing history to refine the predictions of future expense.
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Modeling a ribbon cable
- By Gerald Davis
- Nov 8, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis considers techniques for adding ribbon cable connections to 3-D models
- 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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