Problems when moving dimensions

[PFiuza]

Does anyone ever had problems when moving dimensions (drawing mode),balloons,etc?

I´m doing a drawing and adding some dimensions, BOM´s and ballons. When i move a balloon or a dimension, i must wait about 3 minutes (sometimes even more), for that dimension to apear where i moved it. The drawing freezes and all i can do is wait.. Honestly,i´m getting REALLY anoyed with pro-e!

This makes me a bit sad because i understand the capabilities of this software but its just to weird to work and it has inumerous amount of bugs that are not even patterned...i mean, everything you do can cause a crash that will cost you big time...

I don´t understand how PTC is capable of releasing a software full of bugs and several times more expensive than other CAD softwares!!

Im glad i started within the CAD industry with other softwares like solidworks and inventor... if i had started with pro-e maybe i would think twice about beeing a designer...


Go sk8!! Have fun!!

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I don't use Pro/E, but if it was as bad as you make out for everyone, it would not be used anywhere.

Have you considered the idea that it may just be your install which has the problem? It could be a bad install, or network, or AV, or graphics card/driver issue.

Similar rants have been made by users in the SolidWorks, Solid Edge and other forums. Almost always the problem turns out to be their computer setup.

 

[looslib]

Please lsit your computer specs, OS, graphics card info, memory, OS, Pro/E version/build, etc.
There are a lot of vraiabales that can cause this.
There is also a config.pro option that delays drawing updates. Learn/study the config.pro settings as they can make or break you functional Pro/E is for you.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[dgallup]

Most likely culprit is your video driver but there are many other possibilities. The best thing to do is start with a computer & OS that is on the list of certified hardware. You already spent a lot of money on the software & presumably your time is worth a lot of money to. It is "penny wise & pound foolish" to run any high productivity CAD software on a no name garden variety PC.

I have none of the problems you describe, nor have I ever seen any of them, but we always use certified hardware.

 

[Bribyk]

I know my Microsoft Intellipoint software used to crash Wildfire 3 in sketcher mode. I you have Intellipiont I would uninstall and see if that fixes it (you don't actually need the software for your mouse to work).

 

[Gub]

I have to use Pro/e for my classes at school and find the program to be very painful, not only does it constantly slow down the server with its multiple files its saves but you screw up the way its facing, you have to basically start over if you want to import it to a drawing properly.

 

[looslib]

Wildfire has its own drawing module, so why are you importing anything into a drawing?



"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[mjcole]

Try clicking in the Background or Setting R as a Mapkey for Repaint. If you select a dimension or note and Delete it many times it will still show greyed in background when you select an empty area in background the deleted items disappear

Your dimension may also be snapping to drawing grid which would make movements choppy.

Michael

 

[MRNC]

"you screw up the way its facing, you have to basically start over if you want to import it to a drawing properly. "

I am not sure I understand what you are saying.

If you are talking about import / export. Then you probably need to export via a different csys to "flip" the part @ the time of export.

If you are talking about the display of a part on a drawing that is something that is easy to fix.

If you are talking about sketch view direction, then that is an easy fix also.

99% of the problems folks complain about regarding ProE are not "problems", it is a condition where the user lacks the training to extract the functionality from the program that is desired.

Best regards,
Sean

 

[Bremaria]

This is a response to the original thread question:
"Does anyone ever had problems when moving dimensions (drawing mode),balloons,etc? I´m doing a drawing and adding some dimensions, BOM´s and ballons. When i move a balloon or a dimension, i must wait about 3 minutes (sometimes even more), for that dimension to apear where i moved it. The drawing freezes and all i can do is wait.. Honestly,i´m getting REALLY anoyed with pro-e!"

Response:
I had the same exact problem, just figured out what it was! I have a Nvidia Quadro FX 1700, and it turned out to be something wrong with the video card hardware, more specifically, the primary display port. I realized that I had no trouble moving dimensions/balloons on my secondary display that was plugged into the secondary display port on the video card. I switched the monitors WRT the display ports on the video card, moved the windows task bar and switched the primary display in the display settings. Now pro-e works like it should. I only use the second display for email/internet and that works just fine for now...

Hope this helps.

Brett