Sonicpixy
Mechanical
- Sep 28, 2003
- 2
Greetings all..!
I have been self-tutoring from a book produced by SDC Publications. It is titled Pro Engineer Wildfire Tutorial, by Roger Toogood.
A particular aspect of this book involves producing parts for a pan-and-tilt vice on an end of chapter before next chapter basis. These parts culminate into an exploded general assembly. The vice can be viewed at the following link:
This vice has two mating parts named Shell_L and Shell_R, which are very similar in appearance with the main exception that one has a centralised through hole to take a handle threaded shaft, while the other Shell_L does not. Shell_L has been successfully produced.
Having saved a copy of Shell_L and named this new file Shell_R, my aim was to mirror an ‘independent’ copy of existing part Shell_L within the active new file named Shell_R, now with a mirrored copy to delete the previous part and then modify the new one with the hole to produce the needed Shell_R (I hope I did not lose you here).
However, when I have tried to delete the original part a dialog box appears suggesting I modify with 'options' in some way. The feature choice within Options fails to negate a regeneration error resulting in part failure.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I am finding that there is still some sort of dependency between these two objects despite previously selecting ‘independent’ option during the mirroring process. As a result I cannot presently delete one without deleting the other.
I checked ‘feature info’ and found no indication of child parent relationships or dependency of any kind.
Although it is possible to produce an entirely new part from scratch, I would rather not, since this would be time consuming and inefficient (as am sure you would appreciate, CAD is supposed to avoid problems associated with repetition).
I would be grateful if anyone here could offer some sort of guidance on this matter please.
Thank you in advance for your assistance and contributions.
Sonic
I have been self-tutoring from a book produced by SDC Publications. It is titled Pro Engineer Wildfire Tutorial, by Roger Toogood.
A particular aspect of this book involves producing parts for a pan-and-tilt vice on an end of chapter before next chapter basis. These parts culminate into an exploded general assembly. The vice can be viewed at the following link:
This vice has two mating parts named Shell_L and Shell_R, which are very similar in appearance with the main exception that one has a centralised through hole to take a handle threaded shaft, while the other Shell_L does not. Shell_L has been successfully produced.
Having saved a copy of Shell_L and named this new file Shell_R, my aim was to mirror an ‘independent’ copy of existing part Shell_L within the active new file named Shell_R, now with a mirrored copy to delete the previous part and then modify the new one with the hole to produce the needed Shell_R (I hope I did not lose you here).
However, when I have tried to delete the original part a dialog box appears suggesting I modify with 'options' in some way. The feature choice within Options fails to negate a regeneration error resulting in part failure.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I am finding that there is still some sort of dependency between these two objects despite previously selecting ‘independent’ option during the mirroring process. As a result I cannot presently delete one without deleting the other.
I checked ‘feature info’ and found no indication of child parent relationships or dependency of any kind.
Although it is possible to produce an entirely new part from scratch, I would rather not, since this would be time consuming and inefficient (as am sure you would appreciate, CAD is supposed to avoid problems associated with repetition).
I would be grateful if anyone here could offer some sort of guidance on this matter please.
Thank you in advance for your assistance and contributions.
Sonic