Ray_li

In any field.
Im a Design Engineer and design Architectural Hardware. Been designing for 6 months now since Finished Uni.

Ray



[Edited by Ray_li - 1/9/2004 6:22:51 PM]

jasey

What's that then ?

Ray_li

Thats a very good point.

Thanks

Sheepsplitter

He architects new words!!

wakeboardar

does that mean you desighn door handles and locks

Philip Attaway

I am an Art Director (magazine designer) presently working on House Beautiful.

Please put all House Beautiful magazines in front of any other homes titles in your local store

More sales = more BHP

Phil

pslewis

Hiya Ray ..... hows it going?

You already know I design the biggest fireworks in the world!

You seem happier than the last time we talked

Pete

Sheepsplitter

pslewis: Was that one of your rockets they tried to send to Mars?
If so I suggest you put a bit more gunpowder in next time.

carl

Doh! If you knew anything about spacecraft you'd know that the "rocket" bit only happens at the start -- it cruises the rest of the way.

pslewis

Sheepsplitter is a bit thick ... I always try to allow for that, however, in this case he is close to the truth ... we had Beagle and Environmentally tested it in our labs!

Pete

carl

Cool
I don't know Colin Pillinger, but I know a number of the rest of the people who work for him. The Space Sciences department at Kent University (where I studied) all upped sticks and moved to the OU a couple of years ago.

Sheepsplitter

carl: And if you knew anything about sarcasm you would not have made such a daft statement!

pslewis: I will not be rising to your bait today my good man. Enjoy trolling elsewhere.

[Edited by Sheepsplitter - 1/9/2004 9:20:27 PM]

carl

Well I didn't see anything contentious in pslewis's post. It only went downhill when you joined.

pslewis: if I designed "fireworks" like you (and, when I was younger, I did go for a few interviews at AWE) I'd add some copper and whatnot so that it was a pretty colour when it went off. TBH I think it would also be a lot better if missiles looked like Tintin rockets. I love the cartoon strips of the 50s where all rockets look like V2s.

[Edited by carl - 1/9/2004 9:25:22 PM]

Sheepsplitter

carl: That's because pslewis and myself have an ongoing banter.

pslewis

Sheepsplitter sends it rapidly downhill, hasn't got any friends see??

He's going to nibble on THAT!

Pete

Sheepsplitter

pslewis is my friend, my precious.

kevin stanton

Electro/Mechanical Design Engineer.
Basically layout the pcbs and draw up the matalwork for switchmode power supplies and related guff.
i have been known to design parts of the power supplies as well, so theres also Electronics Engineer on my cv.

Also a trained and worked as a Calibration Engineer in the past, so theres that aswell.

Kevin

pslewis

Layout PCB's? What CAD do you use? When designing PCB's I use Mentor and PCAD ... Unigraphics for the 3D Solid Modelling Mechanics and Autocad for the simple 2D stuff

Pete

kevin stanton

Hi Pete,

I use Accel PCAD 2001 for pcb's, i choose 2001 because its stand alone and on my laptop for working at home, and not server dongle based like a majority of the others. Not cheap thou'

AutoCad for metalwork, its mainly fabricated ally or mild steel chassis, covers, enclosures, so AutoCad is perfect for that.

Kevin

pslewis

19" Rack Systems I would guess??

I have PCAD 2000 .... looking to replace soon .... Mentor is long in the tooth too!

Pete

kevin stanton

i did a 19" rack system last year, but we mainly do the lower power stuff 45-600 watts.








working on a 200w psu with 6 different outputs at the moment.

Ray_li

That true I design door handles and stuff.
Iv been doing it for a week no and love every minuate of it.

I was so unhappy when I was a CAD operator for a speed camera company. (paid as a CAD monkey but worked as a designer for cheap Also generating CNC codes for a punch press, sat next to the welder and 120db machine for 4 months with no heating.)

Now using SolidWorks 2004 and very happy.

Thanks pslewis. without help and surpport from guys like you I would have give up design a year ago and done some boring office job. I want to play with fireworks but I dont think im good enough one day.

Hopefully you'll all get to use a door handle that iv designed. our company designed and made the handles on the QM2 ship (correct me if im wrong about the ship. well its the new on that was on the news)

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

Design Aluminium windows and Curtain wall systems.... well only just started as of 5th Jan but so far so good.

Going to be learning Solidworks 2004 to go alongside Microstation 8.1 which I currently use for 2D work. Although I believe we may be switching to AutoCAD new company policy

Ray_li

SolidWorks is the way to go for product design.
Ive used AutoCAD, MegaCAD, Solidworks and Pro-Engineer.
I think Pro-e is the hardest to use.
someone must beat 4 CAD packages.

Ray

Big Daz

Hi Peeps,
I am a Mechanical Design Engineer, I design Travelling Wave Tubes / Radar / ECM,EW systems and High Power Supplies (some 19" rack stylee) for aerospace / military & commercial.
I currently Use Mechanical Desktop 6 but I am looking to upgrade to Inventor or change to solidworks later this year.
Anyone used Inventor before ? I had a demo a while back and it looks Ok but not much more advanced and have a Solidworks demo later this month.
Cheers
Big Daz

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

It may be that where I work Solidworks is dropped in favour of Inventor on the basis of using one package throughout our whole group of companies. This means I may be learn both that and Solidworks until the crossover happens. The bloke I'm now working with has used solidworks for the past few years and say currently it is streets ahead of Inventor.

Ray_li

Used Solidworks since Uni and totally love it. its easy to use but after one year of not using it Im finding it slow to get back into it. Not looking good for my first week of my new job. Have not stopped thinking about drawing parts in 3D over the weekend.

Ray