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  1. LawrenceS2

    Cosmetic Thread Notes

    @ABerlinMML The "best" solution (AFAIK) to customizing the callouts for thread notes is to edit your hole table (while you are in there, you can fix all of the other problems that PTC has with the tables). There is an entire section of the Creo help documents dedicated to this, as well as...
  2. LawrenceS2

    Date in creo parametric

    @danielrendon123: I do not have an easy way to test this out right now, but you might try defining a parameter using a relation. Since relations are re-calculated each time a model/drawing is regenerated, that should updated the date as well. Something as simple as: LAST_OPEN = &TODAYS_DATE...
  3. LawrenceS2

    Rotate Model Parallel to Screen?

    It probably does not help that you are on Creo 2.0 and ModulusCT is on Creo 3.0
  4. LawrenceS2

    Laser Engraving on Medical Grade Silicon Leaving Tough Residue

    From what you described and the photo, I think capnhook is correct. If it is the talc filler from the rubber, an ultrasonic bath of isopropyl alcohol should allow you to batch several at once for cleaning. Just watch for how long it takes before the bath becomes too contaminated to clean the...
  5. LawrenceS2

    Explosion (offset) lines/ general explosion problems

    One major item to watch for when placing your lines in the exploded view is which HALF of the axis you select when placing the start and end of your lines. Creo (and all previous versions of Wildfire, and 2001) will select the END of the axis closest to where on the axis you click. In your...
  6. LawrenceS2

    Good laptop for CAD & FEA?

    A series of laptops you might want to look at is the Lenovo W series. Most come with an NVIDIA Quadro graphics card, but the price will probably start around your high end. As for video cards, in addition to the Quadro series, AMD makes the FirePro series of cards which are direct competition...
  7. LawrenceS2

    I need help fining this clamp. Its quick release and two piece.

    At the risk of sounding like an idiot here: have you looked at McMaster-Carr for shaft collars? In addition to the standard one-piece, two-piece, and hinged varieties for set sizes, they also sell two-piece clamps with machinable bores (so you can size it to fit the OD exactly).
  8. LawrenceS2

    Specify view foe datum plane

    The other option you have for importing parts is to add them to an existing blank part. Start a new part using your normal start part, then go to the MODEL tab > Get Data drop down > Import. You should then be able to browse to the file and add it to your part. It will come in as "Import...
  9. LawrenceS2

    Suppression of Default Pilot Holes for Threaded Holes

    Tunalover, What you are looking for is the *.hol files for each of the thread types that PTC has listed (the files are plain text, just named with a .hol extension). They are located in: <loadpoint>/text/hole for Wildfire and <loadpoint>/Common Files/<date code>/text/hole for Creo (unless you...
  10. LawrenceS2

    Filling in Text with color

    There are several ways you could go about coloring text. Three of the more common ways are: 1. Create the text as a sketch, then fill the sketch with hatching. If you lower the spacing on the hatching enough, it looks like a fill. The down side, you can only use one color for the text and it...
  11. LawrenceS2

    Shaded parts washed out on drawing.

    Michael, The issue is not with the lighting location, but with the colors you applied to the part. The default colors in ProE/Creo have a highly reflective surface, and when looking at a shaded model (not in render mode) the software assumes that "you" are the white light source. The way to...
  12. LawrenceS2

    proe wf5 - relations in repeat region in bom table

    I know this is a month after the initial question, but I seem to recall that Pro/Creo does the number of parts in the BOM based on order of first appearance in the model tree.
  13. LawrenceS2

    Family Table - Need to Override Dimension and Replace with '-'

    I would recommend you check to see what filters and relations are running in the background (In WF4: Table>Repeat Region>Filters and Table>Repeat Region>Relations). I know that there are several ways of adding the '-' that you have there and I am willing to bet there is some code controlling it.
  14. LawrenceS2

    Adjusting line thickness when printing to a PDF

    There is one other option: mapkeys. I have one set up for printing to PDF that we have been using with Wildfire 4.0 for about 2 years now. I even took the time to make an icon for it and dropped it right next to my Save As... button on the toolbar. The only problem is that if you use the...
  15. LawrenceS2

    Manual Entry Field in a Repeat Region Table

    The title pretty much says it all. I have been asked if I can add a "notes" field to our standard BOM table, which is currently an automated repeat region table. The notes would be unique to each drawing (possibly to each PAGE in a drawing), so I cannot simply add a parameter to the parts...
  16. LawrenceS2

    Extrude company logo (DXF file)

    Unfortunately, if you have a complex logo, it is nearly impossible to bring it in without having a screen full of dimensions. It is possible to import it into a sketch (with no references) and save it (the sketch), then add it to your custom pallet for later import. No matter what, though, you...
  17. LawrenceS2

    Transition from 2001 to WF

    About 2 years back, the company I work for made the jump from Pro|E 2001 to Wildfire 4.0. It took about 3 weeks to get over the loss of the Menu Manager. Unfortunately, while PTC did provide the Menu Mapper, it does not map from 2001 to WF4, it goes to WF3 (iirc) and there might be a few...
  18. LawrenceS2

    Logo into drawing titleblock

    I have had some experience with working with company formats and the logo we use here (prior to rebranding) was a rather long name with a custom font that was turned into curves and splines. Importing that into Pro|E was a pain. What I ended up doing for the format was re-create the frame for...
  19. LawrenceS2

    Coil equation/code/program

    I had to do a similar type of coil for a project I worked on once. What I found easiest was to just create a sketch of the path in the plane the part needs to be in, then did a sweep of my profile along that path. This way is not very parametric, but I do not know if Pro|ENGINEER / Creo can...
  20. LawrenceS2

    Laptop for ProE WF 5

    @Ninja182: Modern "Gamer" cards are designed to use the DirectX APIs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX). The Quadro FX and Fire GL cards are both designed to use OpenGL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL), which is Pro|E's preferred method. It is possible to get by on a high end card...

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