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  1. mechbull

    Pro/E WF v. SWx for college setting: anyone for Pro/E?

    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...
  2. mechbull

    Wildfire 3.0 video tips

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

    Printing with white?

    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...
  4. mechbull

    intralink 3.4 requirements

    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?
  5. mechbull

    Inventor - Pro-Engineer

    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...
  6. mechbull

    search.pro

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

    search.pro

    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
  8. mechbull

    search.pro

    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)??
  9. mechbull

    search.pro

    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 ??????????
  10. mechbull

    Create a sketch from excel/text data file

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

    Cranked stud

    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
  12. mechbull

    software recomendation

    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...
  13. mechbull

    Manually controlling ProE files

    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
  14. mechbull

    software recomendation

    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
  15. mechbull

    software recomendation

    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...
  16. mechbull

    Family table of assembly parts

    ill try this lets say u have xxx.asm parts www.prt & qqq.prt www & qqq are the generics with www1, www2, www3 qqq1, qqq2, qqq3 in the assembly assemble generic parts then in family table start xxx2.asm xxx3.asm select components both generic parts then under the column in the family table...
  17. mechbull

    deleting a feature in a pattern

    yes it can and use info feature it shoots out the browser with the info the prob with th ID sometimes is when you look them up in the table they may be off by 1 so in my method above create a 2nd table and active it regen to see it
  18. mechbull

    deleting a feature in a pattern

    BEST THING TO DO IS CONVERT IT FROM A DIM PATTERN TO A TABLE PATTERN THEN GO EDIT/PATTERN TABLE HIGHLIGHT TABLE 1 ACTIONS/WRITE THEN ADD NEW TABLE FROM FILE RENAME IT TABLE 2 ACTIVATE IT EDIT IT----DELETE ITEMS THEN YOU CAN FAMILY TABLE IT OR LEAVE IT AS IS BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS GO BACK TO...
  19. mechbull

    where to install pro-e

    would i be better off setting up pro-e on an external hard drive so i could take it with me from home to office? is there any license issues with this? i do not have up to date maintnance with ptc
  20. mechbull

    CALCULATING VOLUMES WITHIN A PIPEWORK SYSTEM

    well your half way there if you know the volume of the pipe as a solid now resize your O.D. to the current I.D. and subtract
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