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Load back appearance

Load back appearance

Load back appearance

(OP)
Please, teach a noob.
Tell me why always I load a .prt, the materials I assigned to that, on another session, won't come back along?
Thx forward.

RE: Load back appearance

Did you save the appearance?

Peter Stockhausen
Senior Design Analyst (Checker)
Infotech Aerospace Services
www.infotechpr.net

RE: Load back appearance

(OP)
Uh... saved the part after applying the painture.
And, saved the materials I made on the appearance editor.
Is there something else?

RE: Load back appearance

(OP)
And more.
Sometimes, when it does remeber the textures (external png), it comes all screwed up.
It doesnt remember where the picture is placed on the part, etc.
And any other kind of mess that a program alone can do.  

RE: Load back appearance

Make sure you are saving your decal images in the directory that pro/e opens up to, or have that location referenced in your config.pro or search.pro. I keep my appearance files in the same location as my pro files and template/format files.
This should prevent you from having to re-apply the decal.

RE: Load back appearance

(OP)
True... the pictures were not in the same dir...

Why do we have to do it manually?
 
Is there a reason, or am I the only one expecting from ProE something that any other decent program should do?

Also, will it solve the issues with the screwed up PNGs (if we have text on the picture, it's replaced by retangles, for example).

And, the materials I made on the appearance editor? they always reset when reloading.

Those stuff are not presented on ProE's tutorials... you guys are adealing with a noob here trying to learn.   

RE: Load back appearance

Pro/E never stores paths to any reference files.  Doesn't matter if it's pictures, parts or formats.  You need to use config options to tell Pro/E where all this stuff is.  Takes a little getting used to.  Once you figure it out & get it set up you will find it is very flexible and powerful.

RE: Load back appearance

(OP)
Ok... That's it for now.
Guess I know what to do now.
Thanks for everyone involved in here.

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