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    Merging Parts

    Ahh you beat me too it. Shrinkwrap works bery well.
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    Help my help menu is broken

    I am working with Pro-Mechanica and my help menu will not work. I can acess the help menu from the button in the pro-e interface, however I cannot select anything. I scroll the screen, select topics, or do searches. All I can do is open and close the help screen. Anyone run into this problen...
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    print in 1 minute 10 seconds

    Wow, a 70 second print is a dream for me. LOL However, if you still need to bring the time down, for UNIX there is a config option that greatly reduces print times. In the config file put in "interface_quality 0" This will turn off the complex line check that Pro-E performs for prints...
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    changing weld symbol attributes

    Does anyine know a way to modify the ptc weld symbols (or copy and adjust) to allow scaling independently for the vertical and horizontal directions? As of now the weld symbols get very long when scaling them up to a point where the text is actually readable. I've checked the standard (82 and...
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    Teleporting components from one assembly to another

    Another nice function with the restructure command would be the ability to select MULTIPLE COMPONENTS AT ONE TIME. LOL seems like an easy functionality to include with the commmand. I don't know why PTC did not.
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    Threaded hole 3D notes to a layer by rule

    Is there a rule that will place the 3D note created with a threaded hole to a layer? As of right now they do not get placed in any layer and they become cumbersome when view large assemblies. I am speaking about the note that is created with all the hole info, such as drill #, thread type (unc...
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    Exploding Simplified Reps.

    I don't believe that you can set an exploded state for a specific rep, however on the drawing for each view you can choose to display in the exploded state or otherwise. You can also set a rep view by view (as long the view does not have a parent, children inherit the same view settings). That...
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    Selecting multiple components within the restructure command

    Thats what I was afraid of. Thanks anyway everyone. It wouldn't be an issue and I'd just reinsert hardware but none of the hole "patterns" were made with "patterns". It seems strange that multiple selection functionality could not be incorporated into the command.
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    Selecting multiple components within the restructure command

    Does anyone know if it is possible to set Pro-E to have the ability to select multiple components with the restructure command. I got a HUGE assy here that needs MAJOR restructuring. Whoever did this assy just put everything in willy nilly with no time spent thinking about how the components...
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    PTC and what it might do for you......

    I would like to see a functionality that would allow you to have different orientations OF THE SAME MODELS in an assembly. What I mean by this, is if you have ONE large assembly installed in different configurations you can have just one model in your assembly and memory. I know that you can...
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    Repeating grouped componenets

    Here is my issue, I have several brackets (8 to be exact) that are to be fastened with 2 washers, nut, and bolt. I also have these brackets in 6 different orientations in my assy. Basically I need to insert the same hardware 8 x 6 = 48 times. My question is, is there a way to repeat a group...
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    Painting specific area for illustration purpose

    in addition you can project a curve on a surface and then hatch it. This way you have no extra material (even a small surface) in your model. You can also fill rather than hatch the curve to get a solid type of sketch.
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    Exploded view in WF 3.0

    I have run into a similar problem when using WF2. What I found out is that when you edit the position of a component in a "exploded state" you have to activate the exploded state through view manager and "update" the state to actually apply the changes. I know leave it to PTC to require an...
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    Wildfire 2 Questions

    Additionally, for case 3, if you want to show or erase only 1 tan line (not all in a particular view) you can go to View>edge display>from here you can hide/unhide and set fonts ect.
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    Merged parts

    Any help with this issue would be grand. I'm working a job that requires assembly cuts (match drilled holes ect.) not to be modeled in the part. Instead we are to do a external copy geom to get a new part that is linked to the old one. However, when I do an external copy geom I lose the...

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