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I'm designing a product that uses a heated aluminum plate (310 mm × 330 mm × 8 mm) weighing approximately 5.4 kg. The heating is done with a 2 kW nichrome coil, and the plate is supported horizontally....
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I have some parts to be laser cut in stainless steel sheet (probably ss304) incorporating small (3mm diameter) holes in large numbers and very close together. Deformation or buckling due to heat is ...
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I'm designing a sheet metal panel for an enclosure, which will be built of 1.6mm thick 5052 H32 Aluminum. The panel looks like this: The panel will fit inside a four-sided frame. The top is fitted ...
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I am currently working on a problem statement to improve the nesting efficiency and thereby reduce scrap generated for a sheet metal laser cutting setup (the nested parts are fairly complex/irregular ...
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