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Took me 3 years to realize I was offsetting my dims wrong on every single drawing
I was adding .25 to every dimension for sheet metal bends but never accounting for the neutral axis shift, and a senior drafter pointed out my parts were coming in .08 short after I sent a batch to fabrication in Detroit. Has anyone else had a basic math habit mess up their parts for months before someone caught it?
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felix4885d ago
Man, that neutral axis shift gets everyone early on, right?
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max3884d ago
...or maybe everyone just overcomplicates it? I see people online acting like the neutral axis moving is going to snap their beam in half or something. Most of the time in a simple wood frame or steel beam under normal loads, the shift is barely measurable for all practical purposes.
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