Editing Sheet dimension on Pro Engineer Creo 1

[AlwaysLearningism]

1. I've chosen a particular sheet size and started off with the drawing. I want to change the sheet size now. how do I do that?

2. is it possible to write a macro kind off thing or relations so that you give one dimension and the entire drawing is regenerated according to the relations that depend on the first dimension?




Regards.

 

[robertib]

1. At the bottom of the screen, there is a text size - double-click that & you can resize the drawing

2. That depends on what you mean. Pro/Program allows you to create an input (parameter) that can be used as part of the regen process (assemblies require the AAX module) - the rest can be done with standard relations if it is resizing the part. Resizing the drawing as well, moving views, etc, I don't know, but I suspect Pro/Program may be able to do it.

 

[AlwaysLearningism]

Thanks for the reply robertib,

When I tried doing as you had suggested, it re sized the drawings, but I wanted to change the sheet size from A3 to A2. I tried doing that by clicking the option on the left button corner, Size: A3, but it blew up all arrangements, title block everything.

Do you know if there's a nicer way to accomplish this way?

 

[dgallup]

Don't know what version of Pro/E you are using. I'm still on WF4, in Creo you do the same thing but the menu picks are all different.

In WF4, you RMB without anything selected and pick page setup (I think double clicking the size will do the same thing). Click the format and it will give you a pull down menu. You can either pick one of the standard sizes which will just give you a completely blank format or choose browse and in the dialog box in the common folders on the left size pick User Formats.

That will take you to your company formats (if its been set up properly). Choose a new size and click OK. Now it's gong to ask you about the old format tables. Click Remove All unless you want to deal with them one at a time. Then its going to prompt you for any variable table text fields that are no auto filled by your model parameters. Enter some text for all of them even if you don't know the correct value. Much easier to go in and change some wrong text than find a blank field.

You should now have a larger format and all your existing drawing views etc will be clustered down in the lower left corner.

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