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Pro/E Wildfire drawing to UGNx3 translation

Pro/E Wildfire drawing to UGNx3 translation

Pro/E Wildfire drawing to UGNx3 translation

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I am new to Unigraphics. Our customer needs the drawing in UG format. We have native drawing made in Pro/E I was told by GTAC support that IGES is the best way to go for drawing conversion from Pro/E to UG but I noticed all the diameter symbol and tolerances have changed its sizes, worst part is plus/mius for dim tol got changed to 1!!!
Please let me know which is the best way to get the drawing from Pro/E to Unigraphics?

Thanks in advance.

RE: Pro/E Wildfire drawing to UGNx3 translation

IGES or maybe DXF
Translating drawings between CAD systems is worse than transferring solid models. There is NO standard for symbols used on the drawings because they are dependent on the font used. In UG/NX, the plus/minus symbol in the default blockfont font is made with the $t characters.

The biggest problem with transferring drawings is that they lose the associativity to the model so they become no better than a sheet of paper when it comes time to update them.

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

Ben Loosli
Sr IS Technologist
L-3 Communications

RE: Pro/E Wildfire drawing to UGNx3 translation

Can you export a CGM from Pro/E?

That would be one way of getting it to NX.  A CGM is nothing more than the drawing being transformed, persay, into lines and curves.  So editing the drawing aftering the conversion is pretty much non-existant.

Or just export the model, parasolid, iges, step, whatever and recreate the drawing in NX.

Justin Ackley
Design Engineer
jackley@gmail.com

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