cwolfe8229,
We made the switch about 9 months ago. I too had years of acad (14) and sw (6) experience. We standardized on Pro for the entire corporation, 120+ users worldwide. Training is the key. Using the software after training is 2nd most important. We had our training towards the tail end...
I'm still a "newbie" with Pro first off. What exactly is the difference between the appearance.dmt and the color.map files. I'm running Wildfire build 170. I know the appearance.dmt file is what's read in order to change colors of the parts but I'm confused as to what the...
JW,
I'm pretty much in the same shoes as you, mechanical designer/appointed CAD administrator. I too would rather focus on the design work. There is much less administrative stuff with SW. Since we're all new at this Pro/E stuff here at this company, I hope the administrative stuff will calm...
ttx,
Thanks for the tip but alas, the designate box is checked. There must be a setting hiding somewhere else. I'm going to put a call into PTC and update this thread when/if I get a satisfactory answer.
As far as working with Pro/E, I like it [2thumbsup]. We switched from 2-d autocad about 5...
Thanks Looslib,
Our formats prompt the user as well. I would like to know if there is a way to get these prompts when a user starts a .prt or a .asm
I may use someone's .prt in my assembly before they created the 2d drawing which is where I think you're saying you do it.
Jeff [unclesam]
We've recently (4 weeks) switched from SolidWorks to Pro/E Wildfire and have start parts set up for our models and assemblies with parameters for "drawn by", "part no.", "material" and so on. Our 2d drawing formats have been set up to populate the appropriate fields...
