GD&T

[RoninB4]

Greetings to the board members. I wish I had something to contribute this time but instead I have a question. I've already looked for the answer before coming here. I need some GD&T symbols (planer, flatness, etc.) to go on a blueprint Monday for a design I've done. I could create many of the symbols in the sketcher mode but perhaps there's an already existing file source in Pro-E that I'm not finding or a website I could download the symbols from. Any tips or advice are much appreciated as this is my first real job as a designer after being a toolmaker for 25 years and lurking on this website for about 4 years. I'm using Wildfire version 2. Many thanks in advance for all replies.

 

[RoninB4]

Think I found my answer by going back through my textbooks. Still open to any advice or tips. Thanks for your time.

 

[dgallup]

In Pro/E you can build parametric geometric tolerances in the part, assembly or drawing. I prefer doing it in the drawing but others differ. In any case you will have to declare datums first. In part or assembly mode go to edit/setup/Geom Tol/Set Datum. You will have to select a datum plane or axis, specify the name and then if you want the symbol to show on the feature or in a dimension. The Geometric Tolerance is created in the same menu under Specify Tol. It opens a dialog box & you just make all the appropriate selections. If you do it this way you will have to use the Show/Erase dialog box to show the geometric tolerances in the appropriate drawing views. Or as I said you can create the GTOL in the drawing.

There is an alternate method that I don't recommend but it is a useful workaround at times. In the drawing you can create a note to make a non parametric geometric tolerance. Us the @[text@] to create the boxes for the symbols. Use the text symbol pallet to insert all the different flatness, straightness & runout symbols.

 

[RoninB4]

dgallup;
Thank you for your reply, found similar info in my textbooks and exploring from there. Your reply was still appreciated and I thank you.