Wildfire 5 back to Wildfire 4 4

[treddie]

Howdie.

Just wondering if a Wildfire 5 file can be saved back to a Wildfire 4 version (with any Wildfire 5 stuff removed from it, naturally)?

 

[fighterpilot]

I doubt it. Only one version of Pro/E was backward compatable and that was V17/18 years ago.

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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer

 

[looslib]

There is a plugin and config.pro settings to enaable the ATB of Granite One to read newer versions. You lose all parametrics but you can add new ones.


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

Ben Loosli

 

[treddie]

Can Granite One then save back to an earlier version?

 

[dgallup]

No, it lets an older version open the new version. There are a lot of limitations on what you can do.

 

[treddie]

But if you loose the parametrics, that's like losing everything for the most part.

What is PTC thinking?

 

[dgallup]

If you have active maintenance with PTC you can read all about it at this link:

https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=132326

 

[treddie]

No active maintenance, so I can't check it out. But it sounds on the surface like it wouldn't have solved my problem. I REALLY needed to preserve the nature of the data. So in the end, I ended up just recreating the relatively small amount of work I did in W5, in W4. But it taught me a valuable lesson that I'm glad I learned without getting any deeper into W5.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I don't know of any 3D CAD system which allows direct conversion to an older version. Most systems have to export a dumb solid (Parasolid, IGES, STEP, etc), which is then imported to the older version.

Does Wildfire not have a "Feature Recognition" module? In SolidWorks, the FR module will interrogate the model and convert (where possible) the dumb solid to editable features (revolves, extrudes, etc).

 

[looslib]

No, FR is only implemented in SW. Using FR only really works on simplistic shapaes.

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

Ben Loosli

 

[treddie]

No, it has it. It's called FRT. But I haven't been able to test it out.

 

[treddie]

It's actually a free add-on.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

looslib, that is basically correct. The automatic FR will convert to primitive shapes, but the interactive FR allows more flexibility.

http://help.solidworks.com/2010/Eng...s.htm?id=c2cd7735a23946ea8219b6cbbab5a121#Pg0