PTC and what it might do for you......
PTC and what it might do for you......
(OP)
Just a flippant topic that I'd like to put in here (I know that this has been discussed before, but now that WF3 is on the market, I just wonder has it released a whole new set of demons)...
So here goes....
If PTC rang you in the morning (assuming that it is not too early) and asked you what the one thing you would like to change about ProE was, what would it be?
Personally, I'd like them to change that stupid clean dims to actually do something useful without me having to tell it what to do in the first place
So here goes....
If PTC rang you in the morning (assuming that it is not too early) and asked you what the one thing you would like to change about ProE was, what would it be?
Personally, I'd like them to change that stupid clean dims to actually do something useful without me having to tell it what to do in the first place
Kevin Hammond
Mechanical Design Engineer
Derbyshire, UK





RE: PTC and what it might do for you......
Also, if I pick on an object in the graphics window or model tree I want an OPEN GENERIC pick. Right now it is way too hard to find & open a generic model when you have an instance on screen.
RE: PTC and what it might do for you......
Witness lines overlapping object lines. This looks like junk, and I spend way too much time fixing them.
There's plenty more...
David
RE: PTC and what it might do for you......
Also, I wish you could make shaded views, planes, axis, etc. file dependant. For example, you could have your assembly displayed in shaded without planes, but when you open a part, you could display it with planes as a wireframe. As it is now, if you're working on a part and have your planes and axis on, and toggle to the assembly, you get a mass of planes and axis that you can't even see the assembly thru.
I also want to be able to have the planes displayed on parts, but not on the drawing when you have it open it at the same time. In fact, it would be nice to have a config to "never show datums in drawings" or something similar.
David
RE: PTC and what it might do for you......
I have thought of another thing I hate as well, when you assemble a component into an assembly (when the comp is open ) and the comp window goes full screen instead of 1/4 screen. Annoys the hell out of me
Kevin Hammond
Mechanical Design Engineer
Derbyshire, UK
RE: PTC and what it might do for you......
Joe Borg
RE: PTC and what it might do for you......
The move features onto a layer and hide is not a good work-around.
David
RE: PTC and what it might do for you......
Are you sure you want to exit the sketch? Yes
Are you sure you want to cancel the feature? Yes
Are you getting pissed off? Yes
The CTRL key usage for basic selection for features like intersect and rounding should allow for one by one selection method. For things like merges you cannot merge three features and it's definately not possible to merge a surface to itself so why am I wearing out the CTRL key.
Detail views in drafting are still way better than in UG where you can't edit the attachment of the SEE DETAIL note, however you still need to draw the damn spline and to make it a clean circle you need to sketch one and pick on it's quadrants to get a smooth circle. They should give an option to sketch a circle or ellipse or spline within the View dialog.
I have some others too but not right now. I liked it a lot better when I was working at PTC and could get the problems I saw addressed more quickly.
Michael
RE: PTC and what it might do for you......
RE: PTC and what it might do for you......
In WF3 you can shortcut all the cancel menus:
If you are sketching a feature and want to completely exit, just hit the red X in the bottom right hand corner - just one confirmation and you're out.
I'd like to see the right hand mouse button options controlled in config.wi
John
RE: PTC and what it might do for you......
I have created a relational parametric sketch that does all this but is have to be fixed everytime I bring it into a new file (.prt).
Texaspete