Engineering literature from Manufacturers - Best free design guides and handbooks?

[JuTu]

So... I'm kind of a squirrel. Stuffing my cheeks full of peanuts and what ever edible I can find. Then I go and hide them in holes and pits just to forget them ever being in the first place. But still I'm always looking for that next delicious snack.

In more humanish-way - I roam around the internet downloading all kinds of (mostly) technical literature and hide it on to my hard drives or cloud storages.

That said I hoard literature. All those sweet and beautiful handbooks, design guides, product catalogs and... and... I hope I'm not the only one.

So - feed my addiction and point a fellow engineer towards exquisite enginerding literature. Finest of the fine design guides. The most delicate reference handbooks available out there on the internet published for Us - the engineers, designers and specialists of all fields of knowledge, to use and excel!

I'll share some of my treasures, but now, honestly, I should try to write a design guide for our mechanical design team It's part of my thesis.

EDIT: Oh, and as a side note: I'm all metric

[MJuric]

So... I'm kind of a squirrel. Stuffing my cheeks full of peanuts and what ever edible I can find. Then I go and hide them in holes and pits just to forget them ever being in the first place. But still I'm always looking for that next delicious snack.

In more humanish-way - I roam around the internet downloading all kinds of (mostly) technical literature and hide it on to my hard drives or cloud storages.

That said I hoard literature. All those sweet and beautiful handbooks, design guides, product catalogs and... and... I hope I'm not the only one.

So - feed my addiction and point a fellow engineer towards exquisite enginerding literature. Finest of the fine design guides. The most delicate reference handbooks available out there on the internet published for Us - the engineers, designers and specialists of all fields of knowledge, to use and excel!

I'll share some of my treasures, but now, honestly, I should try to write a design guide for our mechanical design team It's part of my thesis.

EDIT: Oh, and as a side note: I'm all metric

For the most part the internet has made the "finding task" the easy part. Prior to the internet you had to actually collect this knowledge, now it's simply at your fingertips.

[zwei]

I keep a personal library on Notion that has some of the commonly used info/page that i always used
PS: I find it using harddrive to store stuff is not working well for me (a lot of time i end up forgetting what i have and harddrive is hard to store links to website)

I will dig out something once i have time...

Although i doubt there is really a "BEST" design guide... rules are meant to be broken

[jayar]

So... I'm kind of a squirrel. Stuffing my cheeks full of peanuts and what ever edible I can find. Then I go and hide them in holes and pits just to forget them ever being in the first place. But still I'm always looking for that next delicious snack.

In more humanish-way - I roam around the internet downloading all kinds of (mostly) technical literature and hide it on to my hard drives or cloud storages.

That said I hoard literature. All those sweet and beautiful handbooks, design guides, product catalogs and... and... I hope I'm not the only one.

So - feed my addiction and point a fellow engineer towards exquisite enginerding literature. Finest of the fine design guides. The most delicate reference handbooks available out there on the internet published for Us - the engineers, designers and specialists of all fields of knowledge, to use and excel!

I'll share some of my treasures, but now, honestly, I should try to write a design guide for our mechanical design team It's part of my thesis.

EDIT: Oh, and as a side note: I'm all metric

I won't hold the 'all metric' bit against you, lol.

A few that come immediately to mind are (in no particular order)

• Apple Rubber O-ring design guide.

• Fastenal Bolted Joint/fastener design guide.

• AGM - Difference between indicating silica gel (more of an article)

[JuTu]

For the most part the internet has made the "finding task" the easy part. Prior to the internet you had to actually collect this knowledge, now it's simply at your fingertips.

I do value physical books over digital copies. Shuffling pages here and there is so much more ... tangible

I keep a personal library on Notion that has some of the commonly used info/page that i always used
PS: I find it using harddrive to store stuff is not working well for me (a lot of time i end up forgetting what i have and harddrive is hard to store links to website)

I had a quick look at Notion and will definetely try this one out. Couple of weeks ago I was even wondering wether I should start my own personal-wiki to store and collect data in to more searchable form.

And I am terrible bookmarker. I just can't get hold of my bookmarkings in browser(s) and prefer downloading pdfs if possible.

I won't hold the 'all metric' bit against you, lol.

Oh thank you! This made my day!
It's nice to start a day of work with laugh

A few that come immediately to mind are (in no particular order)

• Apple Rubber O-ring design guide.

• Fastenal Bolted Joint/fastener design guide.

• AGM - Difference between indicating silica gel (more of an article)

I need to check these out. Most likely they will end up in my collection.

During the last couple of years, during which I have been studying to become an engineer, I have learned to appreciate highly books written for college and university students escpecially of American origin. They are pedagogically magnificent. As I'm from this minor-language group in global perspective (Finland) there is not too much variation or quality available in my mother's tongue. Then the second thing is the fact that less and less manufacturers publish their technical literature in Finnish language. But luckily, even though Swedish is another official language in Finland, the school institution starts to teach English very early and not Swedish. Somehow that feels quite a good decision in modern world.

[Remi.s]

Hello cadforum,
I would like to find again (because i’ve lost it) a free excel file named « gap tool ».
Its utility is to calculate multiple tolerance stackup.
Please could you help me , replying with a download link.

Best regards,
Rémi

[zwei]

Hello cadforum,
I would like to find again (because i’ve lost it) a free excel file named « gap tool ».
Its utility is to calculate multiple tolerance stackup.
Please could you help me , replying with a download link.

Best regards,
Rémi

Maybe this? http://gdtseminars.com/wp-content/uploa ... 2016a.xlsx
Source: https://gdtseminars.com/resources/free-downloads/

[Remi.s]

Hello Zhen-Wei Tee,
Thanks a lot , that’s exactly what I was looking for.
Best regards,
Rémi

[DanPihlaja]

Attached are a couple that refer to once in a while.

ORD 5700.pdf

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hydraulicClampingFundamentalsRevB-1(1).pdf

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ASTM-ASTI_thicknessTolerance.pdf

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[Glenn Schroeder]

I have something I was going to post in a new thread, but I found this one, and I think it fits. One of the engineers here somehow found this website (https://www.aisc.org/steelavailability). It's an interactive site that lets you find out about availability of structural steel in north America. You select your shape, dimensions, and grade from drop-downs, then it tells you which suppliers it's available from.

For years I've used a list for HSS Round, Rectangular, and Square that was put out by Atlas (because just because it's in a book somewhere doesn't mean someone is actually making it), but I think this will be better. At the very least it has other shapes.

[mattpeneguy]

I have something I was going to post in a new thread, but I found this one, and I think it fits. One of the engineers here somehow found this website (https://www.aisc.org/steelavailability). It's an interactive site that lets you find out about availability of structural steel in north America. You select your shape, dimensions, and grade from drop-downs, then it tells you which suppliers it's available from.

For years I've used a list for HSS Round, Rectangular, and Square that was put out by Atlas (because just because it's in a book somewhere doesn't mean someone is actually making it), but I think this will be better. At the very least it has other shapes.

Thanks Glenn. This will be very helpful. We get, "can we use XX instead of what's shown on the plans" sometimes. We have lists of common shapes, but that definitely changes over time and especially now with Covid and the subsequent supply chain issues...
I have forwarded it to a few of our structural people.