New to SW......need advice
New to SW......need advice
(OP)
I used PRO-E for the last 12 years and just switched over to SW2010 for mechanical design. I am having some trouble getting soem task done. I was hoping maybe someone on this board could point me in the reight direction or offer the tips needed.
* I have been giving the task of changing many parts of a motor design and DUPING all the orginal parts to a new drawing numbering system. So, I get the motor assembly in a IGS extension. I go and open this up, it takes about 10minutes to load and I have my 3D motor. I then select those parts I need one at a time and re-save as a copy. I will change the copied version and leave the original design in tack. I open the duped part to start a change and the model tree has ANNOTATIONS, SENSORS, SOLID BODIES, SURFACE BODIES, MATERIAL, 3 PLANES LISTED, ORGIN and SURFACE -IMPORTED.
I see no listing of the extrusions, cuts, holes etc to edit.
What am I doing wrong ?
I really do not want to re-3D this part.
Do I have to do some sort of conversion of the exisitng geometry ?
Again, all new to SW and need some advice here.
Thanks
Mark
* I have been giving the task of changing many parts of a motor design and DUPING all the orginal parts to a new drawing numbering system. So, I get the motor assembly in a IGS extension. I go and open this up, it takes about 10minutes to load and I have my 3D motor. I then select those parts I need one at a time and re-save as a copy. I will change the copied version and leave the original design in tack. I open the duped part to start a change and the model tree has ANNOTATIONS, SENSORS, SOLID BODIES, SURFACE BODIES, MATERIAL, 3 PLANES LISTED, ORGIN and SURFACE -IMPORTED.
I see no listing of the extrusions, cuts, holes etc to edit.
What am I doing wrong ?
I really do not want to re-3D this part.
Do I have to do some sort of conversion of the exisitng geometry ?
Again, all new to SW and need some advice here.
Thanks
Mark






RE: New to SW......need advice
I would have used native Pro/E, Parasolid or STEP in that order before using IGES, but you will still have to run Feature Recognition.
RE: New to SW......need advice
You only need to run feature recognition on those features that actually need to be changed.
If everything is wrong with the parts I would discuss the problem with the original designer.
RE: New to SW......need advice
In other words. try to get a native Pro/e file formats. Preferably from a version listed above.
Any other formats will produce a dumb solid (ie. without features), and as rollupswx stated, FeatureWorks will need to be used to recognise features to an editable condition.
Although Direct Edit functions may be used to edit dumb solids.
Either way, the Pro/E drawings will not be carried over into SW.
PDFs can be used to archive the Pro/E drawings. You could also consider getting eDrawings for Pro/E to archive both model and drawing.