Converting Pro/E drawings to another format without Pro/E
Converting Pro/E drawings to another format without Pro/E
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Hello,
My company bought a product line from another company. This other company used Pro/E to create their drawings. I use Solid Edge and I can't open Pro/E drawings. Is there a software package that my company can buy that converts Pro/E drawings to another format, such as DXF?
By the way, we've already asked the other company to convert the drawings. Unfortunately, that is currently not part of the agreement.
Any help or suggestions you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
My company bought a product line from another company. This other company used Pro/E to create their drawings. I use Solid Edge and I can't open Pro/E drawings. Is there a software package that my company can buy that converts Pro/E drawings to another format, such as DXF?
By the way, we've already asked the other company to convert the drawings. Unfortunately, that is currently not part of the agreement.
Any help or suggestions you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.





RE: Converting Pro/E drawings to another format without Pro/E
RE: Converting Pro/E drawings to another format without Pro/E
I can open the Pro/E parts using Solid Edge and convert them myself. We do have PDFs or TIFFs of the drawings. But those cannot be edited. The problem that I'm currently running into is that the resolution of the PDFs and TIFFs is too low for creating silk screens. So the supplier has to recreate the image from scratch.
I did a quick search of Pro/E parts and drawings on my company's server. It looks like there are hundreds of them. However, there is some duplication and I'm sure there are older revisions that I wouldn't have to worry about.
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RE: Converting Pro/E drawings to another format without Pro/E
RE: Converting Pro/E drawings to another format without Pro/E
I would not create DXF from the PDF files if their resolution is already too low.
Do you know what release of Pro/E the files were created in?
RE: Converting Pro/E drawings to another format without Pro/E
We do have PDFs and TIFFs of the Pro/E drawings, but the resolution is too low to use them to make silk screens and labels.
I have been researching vendors that do CAD conversions. So far, the pricing I received was $25USD per drawing and $50USD per drawing, which is too high. As dgallup pointed out, it's a one button job. I used Pro/E for nine years at my old job and I know have to make DXF files with it.
I don't know for sure which version of Pro/E was used to create the drawings. I do know that the company that created the drawings is currently using Wildfire 3.0. But some of these drawings are old and may have been created using Pro/E 2000i.
RE: Converting Pro/E drawings to another format without Pro/E
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