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I used to advicate that everyone switch to pro-e. Now that im on the job the fewer operators the better in the world is my new thought (more money more jobs kinda thing) so teach them solidworks and they will get by fine and will stay out our little piece of the world. there is no doubt pro-e...

i also am having problems viewing anything how about attaching a link for a free download to view these

try using a pen table like the one below it is stored in C:\Ptc\proeWildfire2\text\plot_config pen 1 thickness .0125 cm; half_tone_color pen 2 thickness .0350 cm; drawing_color attention_color pen 3 thickness .0125 cm; dimmed_color datum_color pen 4 thickness .0125 cm; edge_highlite_color...

i am trying to install intralink 3.4 on a XP home machine i was told this was possible but after i install oracle and go to the second part to install it says data server is not running or something similar to that can XP home run this?

PRO-E is very functional and much more powerful than Inventor...exept, it cannot draw polygons! you can draw any shape you want but until wildfire 3 there was no automatic way of doing it pro-e is a bigger stickler on creating parent child relations failure mode will most likely drive you to...

yes i started doing it that way but looked for other ways because there were nearly 150 folders to add in

thats even beeter than what i have done i found a program called directory printer (better for other things) but works as well thanks telecomguy

ps: if it is only intended that you manually add these is it possible to write a batch file to add a new directory into the search.pro i have a mapkey that launches windows explorer to what ever my working directory is (maybe build off this)??

is the only way to add new places to the search pro is to manually add them by opening the search.pro or is there an icon i am supposed to click when saving or ??????????

or import excel file from insert datum point offset datum coordinate pick spherical cylindrical or cartesian then draw curves thru points

try using the sweep command for the body of the stud draw the trajectory then the profile then add threads with helical sweep or as cosmetic thread

probably would telecomguy 1 prob is i took over a position that has been filled supposedly 14 times in the last 6 years needless to say the files here are a total F***ing disaster 14 prior guys who knew nothing about pro-e functionality there was a config.pro with nothing but mapkeys LOTS...

thats a can of worms that can go on forever but what I do is when prototyping it fall under a customer name company X -part name when part is complete and released it goes to a new drive under a numbering system O:/released -0-100 101-200

i did soome more digging and i should have mentioned i work for a medical company which menas FDA can audit us at anytime but found out windchill recently came out with some thing for this specifically thanks everyone

when i create a new product it starts with paper to pencil usually maybe start off modeling anyway we keep something called a design history file so that when we are audited by outside customers they can see the history blah blah blah in it it contains screen shots of prototypes maybe a...