Running Pro/e without graphic display

[hpat]

We have Wildfire and generate BOM and very large assemblies. It seems that is possible to switch off graphic display and graphic generation in order to have faster response. Does someone know how ...

 

[mjcole]

I used to work at PTC and know that there is a way to run trailfiles from a command line with no graphics window. It might take a while to get it to work properly but if you open wildfire and hit open and type the direct file path and generate a BOM and then close the window or erase all from current you should be able to create a trailfile that you can reuse by replacing the file name in the trail.txt. file and reuse.

Use spaces between the 4 as shown in example below.
startup_command run_mode graphics_mode 1 trail_name.txt

wildfire.bat 1 0 1 bom_trail.txt

the command may run without the .bat or .exe depending on your computer settings

1 is the default run mode
0 is selects no graphics be displayed
1 the second 1 is used to tell Pro/E you want to run a trail


Graphics modes
0 No Graphics
7 Open GL
8 X-Windows
9 Win_GDI

Give it a shot and let me know if it works!
If it does you'd just need to have a txt document with Assembly or Drawing name to open like draw01.drw, draw2.drw that you could replace and save to a new trail file.

You should be able to put multiple names in the trail file and run trails with simultaneous copies of the lines from your original trail.

Michael