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Planes in STEP imports

Planes in STEP imports

Planes in STEP imports

(OP)
Hi Everyone

I am working with several files imported from Microstation in STEP format.

The 3D geometry is fine, but along with it, I am getting a number of datum planes as well. Some of them have been useful for me, but most of them don't do anything for me other than clutter up my screen.

Is there a way to hide these datum planes without hiding the imported feature?
TIA

RE: Planes in STEP imports

What about putting those planes on a layer then turning off the layer?

Heckler
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RE: Planes in STEP imports

(OP)
I took your advice heckler and it worked. Since there were a lot of planes do deal with, I had to make a rule based layer, and manually excluded the planes I wanted to keep.

NB The rule criteria (in case anyone has to do this in the future) were:
Look For--> Datum Plane
Look By--> Feature
Criteria--> Status, Parent/Child, Is Child of, <import feature>

Thanks Heckler.. It's been a while since I've used Pro/E & now I'm easing back into it.

RE: Planes in STEP imports

JKG,

This is a very rare situation seeing you asking questions. We almost see you answering to our questions. So it will be for me a big pleasure trying to help.

Heckler answer is OK for me too, but I have another solution fo you. In 2001 go to MODIFY->FEATURE-> select the feature -> HEAL GEOMETRY -> DELETE -> keep checked DATUM PLANES-> delete them.

In WF it shoul be similar, but without right menus.

Have a nice day!

-Hora

RE: Planes in STEP imports

(OP)
Hi Hora

This past winter I have been broadening my engineering skills, and that's taken me out of the Pro/E loop for a while. Now I'm on a (few) new project(s) and wearing my pro/e hat again smile. This is an interesting project, since I'm working with a model of an entire building from microstation.

I thought of redefining the import feature at first, but in WF2 the heal geometry menu (still a right handed menu) does not have a delete command. hmm


RE: Planes in STEP imports

I made an error. REDEFINE->click on feature->Heal Geometry-> Delete.

-Hora

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