Pro E viewer
Pro E viewer
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I am looking for a viewer to open, look at and print Pro E drawings. Does anyone have any ideas? I have tried the Product View Express available on the ptc site and I cannot get it to work. I have also tried AutoVue, but a "Save Display" option has to be enabled to read the drawings and our customer is not willing to do that. I am trying spinfire by actify right now but it doesn't seem to work either.
Help!!
Help!!





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You may want to have your customer save his files to IGES format, if all you want to do is view the file information.
Live Aloha
Frank M.
Tradewind Resources
http://www.tr-usa.com
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Try the free version of Pro/DESKTOP. It can be downloaded at:
www.ptc.com
You will have to see if it can handle the drawings and not just the solids.
Best regards,
Matthew Ian Loew
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Both ProE and Adobe Acrobat must be installed on the same machine (or network). Isolated ProE drawings can't be directly converted to pdf without the ProE software to open them (at least not that I know of).
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I am still on the search for another program/viewer. Has anyone out there ever had success getting the Product View Express to work? I emailed PTC and they suggested using it but I cannot get it to work. Two other co-workers have tried as well as a few people at another company that I've talked to.
I've talked to someone who said they'd send me a trial version of something called Full Function Review by PTC. Has anyone heard of it?
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I'm not sure if you are arare, but this is Pro-E drawings are an equivalent to Paperspace in AutoCAD. The models are stored in a seperate file.
Good luck, I know how frustrating this problem can be.
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What I find the worst is when a company tells me that their product can open the files and then later I find out that it actually can't.
Brooke
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save_drawing_picture_file and set it to both then P-View express will show it. Pro will create a file like filename.pic.1 and will also embed it in the drawing.
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N P Singh
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Ed
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The people we receive the drawings from are not willing to do this for us. We had planned on buying autovue but the save display option has to be turned on to open the drawings. Our customer unfortunatly would not turn it on for us. The situation is that our customer has two vendors. The other one, our competition, did the drawing package, so they are the ones who initiated the whole Pro E thing. So you can see why they would make things difficult for us and they are so unwilling to help us.
I appreciate all of the suggestions, hopefully I'll find something!
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Not sure, but it might solve your problem
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BTW, I've tried PTC's free stuff and had ZERO success. A waste of time IMO.