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Roger Eberwein Choice Designs, Inc. www.ezchoice.com Todd Kraft, PTC MCAD Specialist
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Agenda
20 things that you need to know about Pro/Engineer

- A Bunch of things you probably knew - Some things you didnt know - Maybe one thing that works great that you didnt know

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Pro/Manufacture Igloo Extension

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Use the mouse correctly - Left Mouse Button
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All Selections Accept default menu options (bold) Query Sel - accept Sketcher - pick arrow Object action Query Sel - next Sketcher - rectangle, undo Drawing pop-up Flip arrow Sketcher disable & enable current constraints Sketcher RMB+Shift, lock & unlock current constraints
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- Middle Mouse Button

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Part

Sketcher Drawing Assembly

- Right Mouse Button

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Component Display - Visual states of assembly - Blanking components - Shade, wireframe combination

Demo of the functionality

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Hide - unhide -Quick and Easy -Session dependent not saved with model -What can be hidden? planes, axes, points, coord sys, curves, quilts, assy comp & features that contain planes, axes, coord sys (ex. Make datum features & holes)

Demo of the functionality

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Assembly Productivity/Ease of Use -Control-Alt during assembly gives individual control of component or sub-assembly (translate - RMB/rotate - MMB) -Assembly features Auto Update Intrscts when new components are inserted into an assembly prior to an assembly feature the component is recognized by the feature and will be included as an intersected component automatically

Demo of the functionality.

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Simplified Reps - config.pro - open_simplified_rep_by_default yes -Simplified reps ignore parent/child relationships (exclude parents and include children) -Mass properties calculate only the included components, use Master Rep

Demo of the functionality

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Get to know Inheritance features -Included with the Advanced Assembly Extension -Great functionality for linking the finished model to the as-cast model -Light-weight alternative to family tables -One-way associativity the parent model is unaffected by changes made to the derived model -Toggle dependency on or off -Variable features and dimensions -Suppress/resume or add additional features without affecting the parent model

Demo of the functionality

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Explode States - Assemblies - Drawings - Modification of the exploded view can occur either place, however, the changes are not associative between the assembly and drawing

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Drawings Productivity - Erase/resume views - Use drawing reps open dwg in session w/o opening model, open dwg w/o some of the views - Z-Clipping exclude model graphics behind a specified plane -Merge drawings -Member Disp HLR Display (hidden/no hidden), Style (color), Blank/Unblank -Relate draft items to view

Demo of the functionality

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Drawings Ease of use - Align views, unalign projected views - Copy from other drawing notes, symbols & tables - Cut, copy and paste notes, symbols, tables & draft entities (same sheet, different sheet or another drawing) - Word wrap notes & tables -Drawing axes extend all ends together (pick axis, pick axis tag and drag the mouse to the desired position)

Demo of the functionality

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Markups -Drawings most common -Parts -Assemblies -Add notes, arrows, splines, curves & lines -Change color, height & width of markup entities

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Number 11
Model Tree Functions - Reorder drag and drop - Insert mode - RMB - open, assemble, modify, etc.. - Custom setup setting (.cfg) - Show more columns of information, features, feature number, etc..

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Number 12
Renaming Features - Easily track features - Info screens make more sense later

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Number 13
Know what your config.pro can do? - 1300 options available, 500 hidden, 26 subcategories - ~700 defined within Pro/E online help (help is loaded automatically with the software) -Where does it exist (3 locations in the order they are read) <proe loadpoint>\text directory $HOME directory (Unix only) Start-in directory Option icons
Applied immediately Applied, next object created Restart to apply Invalid or obsolete

Status icons
Applied Changed, needs applied Conflicting

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Performance enhancing options - spin_with_part_entities no (displays datum features) - spin_with_silhouettes no (displays silhouette lines) - trail_dir directory path (do not set to a network directory) -plot_dir directory path (do not set to a network directory) -nt_cache_dirs yes (NT mapped drive performance) -lods_enabled yes (controls view performance when enabled) -lods_value 0-100 (0=brick 100=full detail) ProductView Express & Preview options in the Open dialog box (allows viewing in all display states) - save_model_display shading_lod (parts and assemblies) -save_drawing_picture_files embed (drawings)

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New UI Dialog Boxes -parameters new_parameter_ui yes -Relations new_relation_ui yes
Before 2001 New 2001 Options

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Unique Features - Thin Protrusion Thru All - Tweak Replace/Replace Surface - Tweak Offset/Area Offset

Demo of the functionality

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Compare Part - By Feature - By Geometry

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Datum Features - Planes - Axes -Points -Coord Sys -Make Datum (datum-on-the-fly) available when defining sketch plane, ref. plane, depth features & assembling components. Used to add a dimensioning reference when patterning, thus, eliminating the need to create an additional feature then grouping and patterning. The make datum is buried within the feature Datum Features 2001 Functionality -Datum features can now be created during other feature creation without having to exit the feature. The datum feature then gets placed in the model tree above the feature you are creating

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Number 19
Customize your environment - Mapkeys - Icons -Favorites browser_favorite <directory path>

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Number 20
Photorender - Its only one pick away

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