Assembly Cut Question 1

[msutton]

I have a question about using the Extrude tool in assemblies for Pro/E WF 3. I have been sent an assembly and the Extrude tool has been used to cut half of the assembly away to create a cross section view. Don't ask me why this method was used instead of using the x-sec tool, I'm at a loss as well. What I need to know is if there is a way to "undo" the cut. I need the whole assembly back and I'd rather not reassemble the whole thing.

Thanks in advance.

 

[fighterpilot]

You can't just supress the feature in the assembly?

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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer

 

[msutton]

I grew up on SolidWorks so I may be missing something as increadibly obvious as opening the feature tree. However when I have the assembly open I don't know how to get a feature tree. All I can get is the layers or a list of parts that make up the assembly.

 

[Heckler]

Supress or Delete the feature.

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[fighterpilot]

You may have to "show" assembly features. I've been off Pro/E since 2001 so I'm not quite sure how to do it in WF. Sorry.

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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer

 

[josephv]

Hello all,

I think I am having the same problem as msutton. Basically, I don't see assembly features in the feature tree. I can see them in the graphics. Anyone know how to "show" assembly features in the feature tree?

Cheers,

 

[mjcole]

Settings, Tree Filters

Choose to display Features and Suppressed Objects, And even Annotations so you can easily erase those Hole Notes.

After Setting your settings you can save them to a file proe defaults to tree.cfg as name but I usually save them with names like tree_feat_note_sup so I can have several settings customized to what I want to See.

To save the settings Use Settings, Save Settings and to open saved settings there is an Open Settings File option.

The config.pro option is model tree
mdl_tree_cfg_file X:\FULL\PATH\TO\tree_config_name.cfg

Michael

 

[RAJINKAJDAN]

Are you opening a ProE assembly or another type of file such as IGES, STEP etc? That may be why you cannot remove the extruded cut.

Mike

 

[josephv]

Thank you Michael, Settings (above feature tree), Tree Filters worked.