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Air Pollution Baghouse design and drafting

The air pollution baghouse is a key component along with electrostatic precipitators and wet scrubbers in cleaning coal fired electricity plant emissions. Baghouse collectors serve to remove the harmful dust from many other industries such as cement, lime, magnesium and lead. Better and more efficient air pollution baghouse designs are being driven by stringent EPA regulations and the promise of tax credits for lowering emissions below minimum industry limits under “cap and trade” legislation .

Baghouse Collectors raise plant efficiency

Bag house collectors also have the job to reduce the amount of nuisance dust during the production process. In the cement business, this dust is product and can be reintroduced to the production process. Same goes for food products. In the dairy industry milk powder dust from the drying process can be captured and reintroduced improving plant efficiency and yield.

Industrial Bag house in ethanol production

The industrial bag house is also an important part of the green energy business where it used in reducing particulate emissions in ethanol plants. In many cases the particulate fines are classed as explosive dusts and the baghouse and associated ductwork must be designed with fire suppression equipment as well as environmental monitoring and sesnoring equipment. Please consider AAA Drafting Services if you have any projects involving the creation of detail and manufacturing drawings for baghouses, vent stacks and ductwork.

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Sketching on a SolidWorks drawing

If you are new to SolidWorks, there can be times when things are a little frustrating. One of those simple things is adding notes or sketching lines on an exisiting drawing with several views.

You add your note or centerline and then move one of the views but the note you added stays where it is and you end up having to move it seperately.

Or you have a note that belongs somewhere else in the drawing that gets moved when you are rearranging views when you dont want it to.

The solution to these problems is found in these excerpts from the SolidWorks help section.

Lock View Focus.

Allows you to add sketch entities to views, even when the pointer is close to another view. You can be sure that the items you are adding belong to the views you want. You can also double-click views to lock the focus.

So if you want to add a note or a line to views and have them move when you move the view, click in the views, right click and lock the view focus, then add the items you want.

Once you are finished just click the views and unselect the lock view focus. Now your items should move in lock step with the views.

What about notes that you want to be part of the sheet. Say you have some general material or heat treatment notes that you dont want to have moved when views are manipulated. You need to use lock sheet focus.

Lock Sheet Focus.

Allows you to add sketch entities to the sheet. Otherwise, the sketch entities belong to the view that is closest to where you begin sketching. You can also double-click a sheet to lock the focus. Lock Sheet Focus is available when at least one drawing view is present. When Lock Sheet Focus is enabled, the drawing sheet border is pink.

Finally if you are in a situation where you want to lock certain projections in postion use lock view position. I find this useful when I want to use a single projection to show an open or closed position by superimposing views on top of each other:

Create two views of the same part or assembly. Align them horizontally or vertically as required. Right-click anywhere in the desired view and select Lock View Position. Then you can line up the copied views right over top of the original, making it look as if both are the same.

Following these directions should help so that notes and sketched lines dont end up where they are not supposed to be!