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Assembly Problem

Assembly Problem

Assembly Problem

(OP)
We purchased a product line off another company and have recieved all of their source files.  They designed it all in Pro/E.  So we went and got a seat of pro/e.  Normally we use Solidworks.

The issue is it when i try to open the main assembly it says "Cannot retrieve model", but they are all in the main folder with it.

There are hundreds of parts and it would take a long time to reassemble the machine in pro/e (especially since i don't know how to use it yet).  Is there an easy way to fix this?

Also all the parts are named like this Part.prt.472
What are those last 3 digits?  And they are different for eevery file.

Thanks for any help
Joe Conklin

RE: Assembly Problem

If all of the files are in a single folder, then just be sure that your working directory is pointing to that folder. From within Pro/E, File-Set Working Directory.
If they are in sub-folders, you may need to set up a search.pro file which will tell Pro/E where to look for components of the assembly.
The number on the end of a Pro/E .prt or .asm file name is the version of that file. My guess is you may have the following parts:
Part120.prt.475
Part125.prt.476
Part125.prt.477

The first part of the file name (Part125) is the unigue file name of a detail part (.prt) part file and you have 2 versions (.476 & .477) in your directory.

Hope this helps you figure out what you have.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
Sr IS Technologist
L-3 Communications

RE: Assembly Problem

(OP)
I have working directory set to where all the files are, i did that during install.

Ok so thats what that means. They must not have transfer all the version since we have only 1 copy of each file.

Thanks,

Joe Conklin

RE: Assembly Problem

joec230:

Every time you save a Pro-E model, instead of overwriting the previous file, it increments the suffix my one number.  Part.prt.472 is saved as Part.prt.473, but Part.prt.472 isn't deleted.  All versions are saved in the working directory.

Pro-E always loads the latest version.  If you save a model then realize something is really messed up, you can go into File Manager and delete the latest version and Pro-E will then use the previous version.  You can periodically run Purge Directory to delete all but the latest version of all files.

RE: Assembly Problem

One copy of each file is all you need. Hopefully, they sent you the latest version of each file.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
Sr IS Technologist
L-3 Communications

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