Pro / E as a representative of high-end three-dimensional software, it is powerful, easy to use, easy to learn and use, it has now become commonly used three-dimensional software which including mechanical design, appliance design, mold design and other industries. Pro / E from the initial 1.0 version of the development to the current 3.0 version of wildfires, the software interface and functions have been significant changes, and its main objective is to change the software functions are being constantly strengthened the basis of continuing to streamline operations. But if you want to learn Pro / E, and use it to design a qualified product, it necessary to constantly sum up experience and skills in order to continuously improvement.
The following is a summary of the author of a number of small skills, hope it can help all of us to learn Pro / E.
• how to open the Family Table Parts parts again after the open only shows the original model?
Parts for the family table, the default settings, when to open a Family Table Family Table member of the examples, we will in the future automatically retrieve parts of the examples show the family table, so as to bring about the difficulty of finding spare parts. Solutions to this problem is very simple, only need to config files menu_show_instances option is set to NO. After setting table and opened the family and not only shows the original model shows examples can reduce the difficulty to find examples of parts. The chart for the system default configuration Family Table shows examples of ways and through configuration file settings are displayed.
What needs attention is: When this option is set up, we should save the configuration file after the closure of Pro / E and restart again before they can enter into force.
• How to compress parts of file so as to communicate ?
The more parts, the greater the documents. Sometimes we need to make the parts by mail or other means and to share, communicate, but general e-mail attachments have capacity constraints, slightly larger files can not be sent. Here available to everyone a few simple and effective method of file compression.
• Use insert mode purpose compressed file. When a model, we can see that the default "insert" are located at the bottom of the tree model, we can use the left mouse button Hold down the "Insert" and drag it to the model tree the most top.
At this point we save the parts, and in resource management, we can change the insertion mode to see the size of parts changed, the original 311K parts are only 139K. At this point to further re-use compression software can be easily compressed after the passage of mail delivery, and receive e-mail the party as long as Pro / E in the open model, and "In the words" re-drag to model the tail of the tree that is Parts of the characteristics can be achieved complete recovery.
The "insert" position
Parts size changes
• Use implicit functions to compress. Open model, select all the characteristics which you want to compress in the model tree , and then press the right mouse button, choose one of the "hidden" order will be prompted to "highlight the characteristics will be implied, make sure" Click "OK" to accept the choice of characteristics was implied. Characteristics implied in the model will disappear in the mold, save the model. Check out the latest model of preservation, the same model can be found significantly reduced capacity. When the model was sent to the other side, open the file using pro/e, in the model tree, select "Settings" - "tree filter" in the "Model Tree Project" and select "hidden object" immediately after the model tree see the hidden features, select them using the right mouse button after the "recovery" may be implied by the characteristics of the restoration.
Use "hidden" order
Select the "hidden object"
Restore the implicited characteristics
• How to set the default message area shows the number of rows?
News area shows the default number of rows through configuration files to make changes. In the configuration file ,set the data of "visible_message_lines" to the value you need , for example, in the message you want to display 1 lines of text, in which parameters enter "1" can be.
• how to use the BOM import to EXCEL?
In wildfire version 3.0, you can directly save BOM table for EXCEL identifiable file format "*. csv", the following chart.
The CSV file is saved directly by double-clicking to open in EXCEL, the following chart.
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• How to set o in the engineering drawings of the integral dimension ?
Some enterprises in engineering icon note in calling for an integer size, such as "30" marked as "30.000" form, in order to achieve such a mark, you can profile engineering drawings *. dtl file the following items to set up "lead_trail_zeros" for both [std_english], the default configuration for std_metric, after the decimal point can not be achieved marked effect 0.
• In sheet metal engineering drawings,we often need to place bending and flattening the two sheet metal, and how to achieve?
For sheet metal works in an engineering drawings to achieve the effect of two different state, can be used "Family Table" function to achieve. This sheet metal parts is about to make family table, in the family table instances and bending, respectively, will start the state as a family form the existence of two different examples. When engineering drawings need to put some sort of state, we can use the engineering drawings of the "multi-model mapping" feature, part family exterior different examples need to added to the engineering drawings, and create a different view, you can achieve different the state of the sheet metal.