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"rllthomas" <You
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pretty much need to get a tooling list from your supplier. One thing I think
companies SHOULD do is establish a standard tooling list for sheet metal
suppliers. If someone wants to do business with you they WILL have those
tools. Now it is your job to TRY and design around those tools so your parts
are portable. Your purchasing department can move the parts to whomever has
the most capacity and get the best price.
I say this because we always design to our suppliers tooling then the
supplier gets busy with someone bigger than us and raises their prices so we
as an annoyance go away. Purchasing then gets a good quote from someone else
but wants us to modify the parts to meet the other shops tooling. It is a
vicious circle.
Keith
I told you a million times to not exaggerate!
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will be sending the quote to billions and billions of potential suppliers...."
Keith
I told you a million times to not exaggerate!
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"rllthomas" <So
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they can punch a .230 dia x 82 deg. c'sink with a thru hole of .141 dia in 16
GA? Not a single supplier of ours using Amada tooling can do that. All of our
suppliers using Wilson tooling can do that.
Are you sure they are punching the holes?
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cuz I'm bringing it back in line. It irritates the heck out of me when I do a
hole not, custom format it they way I want etc. then notice that because I'm
in the habit of making the hole depth = Thickness IV puts a depth in the hole
note. So I switch back to the model, redefine the feature to be thru and go
back to find my hole note is all hosed up. It is now a different kind of hole
(depth -vs- thru) so it is a different standard or template or whatever in IV.
I guess I should just edit my hole note in the dwg instead of the part model.
sigh