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    How do you handle people touching your tools.

    Maybe wear sweat pants to work one day and conspicuously stick the tool down your pants to scratch your balls?
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    Solidworks: extruded cut but not normal to the sketch plane?

    It does, and it works too. Just an unlabeled box that does exactly what I need. I got as far as uploading a screenshot and typing out that it isn't there anymore until I saw it is.
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    Solidworks: extruded cut but not normal to the sketch plane?

    That seems like exactly what I want but I can't figure out how to do that in the 2022 version. I can't find an extrusion direction option.
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    Joe Biden calls for tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel

    This has to be political posturing and nothing else, right? Perhaps it has been discussed, but if my raw materials increase in price, then I have an even harder time competing with outsource manufacturing. Why would someone not just pay the 25% tariff on a finished product instead of paying 25%...
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    Solidworks: extruded cut but not normal to the sketch plane?

    That's what I had been doing, but since I can't project the sketch with draft I end up with a distorted cutout from the original sketch once I cut with draft, because the distance from the desired sketch to the projection varies. I think that's visible in your demo with what should be a circular...
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    Solidworks: extruded cut but not normal to the sketch plane?

    It seems like a lofted cut can do what I'm wanting in what feels like a functional but overly complicated way. It can also do a whole lot of things I don't want..
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    Solidworks: extruded cut but not normal to the sketch plane?

    The trouble is that I can't make the geometry on that plane without extreme difficulty and have the cut at the face be correct.
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    Solidworks: extruded cut but not normal to the sketch plane?

    I have a shape in a wall of a die cast part. The wall is at 45 degrees from the die closing direction. Is it possible to take a sketch of the shape I want, on the face I want it, and then extrude it in the direction of the die closing, with draft angle? I would be extruding the cut 45 degrees...
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    OT: Hydraulic position / stroke control / end of stroke valves

    The tooling cannot survive the full tonnage available, so I use shims and blocks. But I'd rather just turn a crank to a number.
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    OT: Hydraulic position / stroke control / end of stroke valves

    That's funny, one of the presses I am working on (frame is waiting for powder coat) uses a hydraulic steering valve for control
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    OT: Hydraulic position / stroke control / end of stroke valves

    We have a tubing bender set up like that and the repeatability is pretty bad
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    OT: Hydraulic position / stroke control / end of stroke valves

    I could probably duplicate that with a regular spool valve, if a poppet ends up not being right I mostly want to get away form hitting maximum tonnage every stroke, and also avoid adding shims or large screw jacks (I'm using plastic dies most of the time, and they don't take kindly to death...
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    OT: Hydraulic position / stroke control / end of stroke valves

    Would a manual poppet as a pilot to another spool valve decrease the pressure related inaccuracy?
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    OT: Hydraulic position / stroke control / end of stroke valves

    I have no idea but I will look into them
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    OT: Hydraulic position / stroke control / end of stroke valves

    Does anyone know where to get reasonably accurate hydraulic position / stroke control / end of stroke valves? I'm looking for the type with a little button that cuts off flow to the cylinder when it is pushed. I'd like to setup an adjustable stop using one of these on some presses I've built...
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