10-09-2020, 10:46 AM
Hi, Bruce. I thank you. Next time I fire up the old Pro computer, I'm going to try to do that. As for making the Mac 101 rod into the West Bend rod, I just did things the hard way. Copied and modded the Mac rod to make an 820/610 one and did the drawing over again from scratch. Thank goodness we'd decided not to use GD&T, since most of the machine shops we use aren't Y-14.5 conversant. It's been many years since I took the GD&T course at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. I still have the manuals and the knowledge, but both are tucked away and would have to be dug out! I was a contract guy for my last 17 years of design engineering work, so I only got to use Pro/E for a few years. I used Unigraphics II for a lot of years, then Intergraph IEMS for quite a long time at Kennedy Space Center. I was even forced to do MicroStation 2D at Peter Paul candy factory for a few months. I just couldn't take any more 2D drawing. I was at Sandia National Labs for five years where we used Pro/E on DOD/DOE satellites. The last version I used at Sandia was Wildfire 5. It's not a bad system, but when it sits for months between projects, one has a bit of a warm-up period! It's fun going back to build fun projects. Thank you again. Ted