Pro Engineer Wildfire Training

SHEET METAL

Creating Primary Wall

Sketching For Sheet Metal Walls

Merging two Unattached Walls

Creating Secondary Walls

Creating Attached Secondary Walls

Creating Attached Secondary Walls Without bend

Creating Attached Secondary Walls

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Creating Attached Secondary Walls

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Unattached Flat Wall Feature Options

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Creating Attached Secondary Walls Flange Wall

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Creating Attached Secondary Walls Partial Walls

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Creating Walls With Relief's

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Creating Attached Secondary Walls - Twist

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Creating Attached Secondary Walls Extending Walls

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Creating a Flat Pattern

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Unbending Sheet metal Parts

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Unbending Developable Surface

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Creating a Bend Back Feature

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Using SMT Conversion Tool

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Creating Cut

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Creating Cuts in Unbent State

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Creating Bend features

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Using Bend Options

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Calculating Developed Length

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Calculating Developed Length (cont.)

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Y and K Factor

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Documenting Bend Order

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Model Analysis

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Geometry Check
Checks for problems with overlapping geometry, misalignment, and so on. This command may be dimmed. If a shell, offset surface, or thickened surface fails, the system stores information about the surfaces that could not be offset. The GEOM CHECK menu displays a list of features with failed geometry and a Restore command.

What May Cause a Geometry Check Warning?

The following cases might cause the system to issue a geometry check warning: Using blind features to extrude all the way through a part or intersect another surface. When the blind depth is not quite enough, there will be a little gap, which will be detected by Pro/ENGINEER. Do not modify the extruded value onlyredefine the feature to use one of the Thru depth options.
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What May Cause a Geometry Check Warning? (cont.)

Sketching intersecting features on drafted surfaces You may not notice the slight angle of the draft, but the feature you sketch will not quite align with the feature to be intersected. You should either sketch the feature on the original non-drafted surface or use the option Use Edge so the entities align exactly.

Overlapping Geometry
A surface intersects itself. If Pro/ENGINEER finds a self-intersecting surface, it does not perform any further surface checks. The system highlights the overlapping geometry in red and the corresponding points of intersection in white, and displays an error message.

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Thickness Check

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Detailing Best Practices

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Graveyard View
One technique that can be used to address these extra dimensions is to create whats known as a graveyard view. A graveyard view is a general view that is created to hold all dimensions that you do not wish to see in a drawing view. Once you switch the unwanted dimension form the drawing view to the graveyard view, they wont be able to accidentally appear in the drawing view when you are working with other dimensions at a later time. In other words, switching unwanted dimensions to a graveyard view keeps drawing views organized and much easier to work with. When you are done adding dimensions to your graveyard view you can ERASE it. (DO NOT DELETE IT,ERASE AND DELETE ARE DIFFERENT OPPERATIONS, IF YOU DELETE A GRAVEYARD VIEW ALL THE DIMENSIONS WILL RETURN TO THEIR ORIGINAL VIEW).
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Graveyard View (cont.)

MENU MANAGER: #Drawing Options [sort Alphabetical] ** Under the Active Drawing heading, find ALLOW_3D_DIMENSIONS and set it to YES. **

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Drawing Representations
Using drawing representations, you can improve performance, particularly when working with multi-model large assembly drawings and drawings of complex models. With drawing representation functionality you can perform the following operations: Improve drawing retrieval time and improve drawing performance by minimizing display calculations such as view regenerations and repaints Configure the display of a drawing so that you can work with just the drawing information that you need for current work and keep unnecessary data out of memory

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Drawing Representations (cont.)

Turn off the display of views that you are not working on so that the system does not calculate unnecessary display information and, in particular, does not retrieve models into session when you retrieve a drawing Load a drawing to a particular drawing sheet, zoom location, or view centerfor example, retrieve only specified sheets of a drawing without loading all the sheets and displaying every view on each sheet

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Clipping view in z-direction

Decreases repaint time

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Drawing Overlays
Using overlays, (Tools > Overlay) you can superimpose selected views or an entire sheet of one drawing over the current drawing sheet. This functionality is available for drawings, layouts, reports, and diagrams; each can reference objects of these four types, as well as formats. When working with overlays, keep in mind the following: Overlays are read-only in the current drawing. The system updates overlays to changes in the source drawing. Overlaid views appear with all detail items. You cannot select overlays for any drawing procedure. If the size of the current drawing is different from the size of the source drawing, the overlays brought into the current drawing maintain the same screen size (that is, they occupy the same portion of the graphics window) as they had in the source drawing.
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Compare Sheet to Picture

You can compare a drawing sheet to a previously saved .pic file of the sheet. You can compare the whole sheet or use any portion of it in magnification. Click Analysis > Compare Sheet to Picture. Select the .pic file to compare. The pic file is "layered" over the drawing page. Common items are suppressed, and any different items, either added or deleted, are shown. MENU MANAGER: #Drawing Options Find - save_drawing_picture_file and set it to export

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Tips & Tricks Drawings (Clarity) Z-Clipping (also decreases repaint time) Member Display Relating Draft Items to a View Quilt Hidden Line Removal Fonts Use @o to attach leader to multi-line text

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Tips & Tricks Drawings (Speed) General Tips: Turn off datum displays Work in wireframe Set auto_regen_views to no No View Open (open_simplified_rep_by_default=yes) Erase/Resume Views Snapshot of View Merge Drawings

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Tips & Tricks Drawings (Ease of Use) Right Mouse Modify Align Views / Unalign Projected Views Copy from other Drawing Template Drawings

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Relative Accuracy
Relative accuracy is used to control the computational accuracy of geometric calculations for a model. The default accuracy is 0.0012. However, if a model has very small features relative to the overall size of the model the accuracy may need to be increased (this is setting the accuracy to a smaller value). Increasing the accuracy will increase the regeneration time. If an increase in the accuracy is needed to successfully regenerate the model, set it according to the following rule. Divide the smallest dimension by the overall length of the model. For example, a cut 0.01 deep is placed on a model that is 15 long. The resulting accuracy should be set to 0.01/15 = 0.00067. The normal range for accuracy is 0.01 to 0.0001.

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Relative Accuracy (cont.)

For complex models with advanced draft and rounds, such as castings or injection molded parts, you may want to set the accuracy to a lower value when you begin the model. For example, you could set the accuracy to 0.006 instead of the default 0.012 .

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Absolute Accuracy
Absolute accuracy allows you to specify the actual accuracy of the model. This should only be used if relative accuracy causes regeneration problems for the following cases; Copying or merging geometry from one model to another Designing parts for manufacturing and mold design Matching accuracy of imported geometry to its destination part To switch from relative to absolute accuracy; set the config.pro setting "enable_absolute_accuracy" to yes In the correct model select SET UP, ACCURACY, ABSOLUTE, ENTER VALUE, enter the desired accuracy

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Tol Study
LMC :- Least Material condition MMC :- Maximum Material condition When you design a model, you expect the actual part dimensions to be within certain predetermined limits of size. Pro/ENGINEER defines these limits of sizeupper and lower dimension boundariesas dimension bounds. The system creates model geometry based on nominal values for each dimension. You can create a hypothetical model of a part or assembly based on upper and lower allowable dimensions, and later use this new geometry to measure the effects of various analysis functions.

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Tol Study (cont.) Click Edit > Setup > Dim Bound.
Specify the value limits by choosing one of the following commands: Upper - Sets the dimension value to its maximum Middle - Sets the dimension value to the nominal value plus the mean of the upper and lower tolerance values. Lower - Sets the dimension value to its minimum. Nominal -Sets the dimension value to nominal.

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Wildfire-3.0 ENHACEMENT

Part Modeling Assembly Sheetmetal Design

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PART MODELING

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Swept Blend Dashboard

Consolidates different feature types into a single feature, such as protrusion, cut, surface, surface trim, thin protrusion, thin cut, and thin trim Allows changing of the multiple feature types at any point Provides smart selection of various sections through analyzing the accessibility for different options (for example, selection of open sections for the Surface option) Offers a more accurate method of specifying the cross-sectional area of the Swept Blend geometry at desired locations on the origin trajectory

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PATTERN FEATURES
Curved Patterns
The Curve option on the Pattern dashboard allows to create instances of a feature along a sketched curve.

Benefits
Causes the patterned feature or group to follow the shape of the curve Provides control of the spacing or the number of members Offers the ability to specify the start point and direction of the curve

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Enhancements to Asynchronous Datum Creation

Datum created when using other feature creation tools are embedded in the feature.

Benefits
You can directly select the feature from the graphics screen. When editing the feature you can see all feature dimensions, including the embedded datum feature dimensions. When you display the feature dimensions in a drawing, all dimensions appear after selecting the parent feature.

You can drag the datum outside of the feature and re-use them as references for other features. If you keep the datum embedded and delete the parent feature, you are prompted to keep the construction planes.
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Partial Shells
The Shell tool can exclude surfaces when you hollow out a solid to create a partial shell. Excluding surfaces from the shelling operation gives you more flexibility. You can exclude areas that are not to be shelled or where thickness cannot be accommodated.

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ANNOTATION FEATURES
DATUM TAGS
New option for displaying set datum's in 3-D. You can automatically create a new set datum through a surface or at the center of a cylindrical surface, edge, or curve.

INTERFACE ENHANCEMENTS
Replace any reference by selecting the reference and using the Replace shortcut command. Customize reference descriptions by typing over the default information in the Reference Description box.
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Highlighting in Sketcher to Explain Constraints

Geometry and references are highlighted in purple and green to distinguish entities when explaining constraints.

Sketching Plane Setup and Orientation References in Sketcher

You can quickly change the sketching plane or the orientation reference of a section without leaving Sketcher and breaking the design flow.

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Sketched Text Enhancement

A green arrowhead appears at the start point of the text indicating the direction of the text. You can control text justification using Vertical and Horizontal options. If you select another sketched curve for the text string to follow, the text string moves along the selected curve and you can control its horizontal and vertical justification.

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Cut, Copy, and Paste Operations in Sketcher

Right-click a specific entity, and you can cut or copy it

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Entering Sketcher without a Clear Orientation Reference

After you select a sketching plane, you enter Sketcher even if no default orientation reference exists. You can accept an automatically generated default orientation for unclear orientation references and enter Sketcher. The References dialog box opens, and you are prompted to select dimensioning references.
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Materials Capabilities Improved

Materials capabilities are dramatically improved with a new Materials dialog box for defining materials and a completely overhauled library.

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Improved Copy and Paste or Copy and Paste Special

The Copy and Paste and Copy and Paste Special commands have workflow improvements.

Benefits
After selecting an item to copy, you can now use the Paste (CTRL + V) and Paste Special commands multiple times If you cancel a paste operation while defining a feature, you are given options to keep the features already pasted or to remove them. When using Paste, all settings from the original feature are copied and are the default in the new feature.
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DETAIL DRAWING

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Activate Layer
When you activate a layer, all entities supported for layering and created from that point forward, are automatically added to that layer. To activate a layer, right-click the layer and select Activate. From that point forward, all newly created supported items for a drawing and feature dimensions for a model, are automatically added to the active layer.
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Automatic Clipped Dimensions

There is a new way to create clipped dimensions and it is easier to create small, acute, dimensions. To create a clipped dimension, select the edge to be dimensioned, the center object (such as line or axis) and the first edge again, and then place the dimenson.

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Chamfer Dimension Witness Lines

When chamfer dimensions are repositioned, a witness line is automatically created if the dimension is moved beyond the edge to where it is attached

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Dependent 3-D Cross Section Views

A Drawing view that shows a dependent 3-D cross section as defined in the model, is linked to its parent's section setting. If a dependent view is created from a view using a 3-D section, the dependent view's cross section setting is automatically driven by the parent view.

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Exact Placement Updates

You can place symbols at exact coordinates using the Move Special command. A new option is added to the Move Special dialog box for easier access to relative coordinates.

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Flip Arrows Command

Diameter and radius dimensions each have a Flip Arrows style.

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Horizontal Text for Radius Dimensions

Radius dimensions with parallel extension lines can be shown with a horizontal text orientation.

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Geometric Tolerance Stacks

With the new Detail setup option, stacked_gtol_align, you can create geometric tolerances according to JIS standards. The option stacked_gtol_align when set to yes, enables you to set geometric tolerances that comply with the JIS standard, with alignment on both ends of the control frame.

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Attach Geometric Tolerances to Leader Elbows

With two new placement options, you can attach geometric tolerances to diameter, radius, and chamfer dimensions with leaders and leadered notes.

Exporting Drawing Tables as CSV Files

When saving tables you can export drawing tables as CSV (Comma Separated Value) files. User Interface Location Click Table > Save Table > As CSV File.
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JIS Thread Display in Drawings

Thread feature appearance in drawings is improved to better support JIS standards. When the Drawing Setup option thread_standard is set to std_jis, hidden threads appear according to the JIS standard.

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Shaded Views in Drawings

You can now include shaded views of models in drawings. This capability improves plotting drawings with OLE objects and shaded views.

Parametric Sketching
While sketching in your drawings, you can parametrically associate draft entities with the model geometry or other draft entities. If you parametrically associate the draft entities, changes to its reference result in changes to the draft geometry.

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Part Simplified Representations in Drawings

You can place individual views of simplified parts in drawings. When you create a drawing using a part model with simplified representations, you are prompted to select the representation to add as the active drawing model. You must set the simplified representation as the active model before placing the view.

User Interface Location Click File > Properties >Drawing Models > Set/Add.
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Improved Ordinate Dimensioning

You can now directly create ordinate dimensions, add dimensions to an existing ordinate dimension.

JIS Ordinate Baselines

When ord_dim_standard is set to JIS, the ordinate baseline appears without the zero value. As a result, the drawings you create conform better to JIS standards

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New Display Options for Per Unit Tolerances

Additional options are available to indicate a circular (diameter) or square area. You can enter the actual dimension and add a square or diameter symbol to the area dimension. These options are intended to support industry standards

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ASSEMBLY

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Component Placement Dashboard

The Component Placement dashboard, drag handles, and feedback in the graphics window provide a faster, easier method to assemble components in Pro/ENGINEER assemblies.

During component placement, you can perform the following operations:

Specify the motion axis limits of components placed with mechanism constraints. Use shortcut menus for default and fixed constraints. Use drag handles to position parts with offset constraints. Move components into exact positions. Access dragging operations from mechanism to move the component in the remaining degrees of freedom.
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Component Replace Enhancements

The Replace dialog box makes replacing components easier. Family Tables and Pro/PROGRAM are both fully supported. With the By Copy option, you can create a copy of the replaced component on the fly. You no longer need to create the component before you begin the replacement operation.

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Copy and Paste Commands in Assembly

You can quickly and easily move, translate, and rotate components to other areas of the assembly with the Copy and Paste commands. During the operation, multiple transformations are possible. You can edit the moved components to redefine the transformation without recreating the moved components from scratch.

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Data Sharing Dashboard

The Data Sharing dashboard consolidates the Merge, Cutout, and Inheritance features in a modern user interface.

Benefits and Description

Consolidates Data Sharing features, such as Merge, Cutout, and Inheritance Allows changing of multiple feature types at any point Offers a user-friendly user interface with easy access to commands Supports object-action workflow for increased productivity

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Mirror Command Enhancements for Assembly Components

The workflow for creating a mirrored component is simplified. Mirrored components can be dependent or independent on the geometry and placement of the source components. You can edit the component placement of a mirrored part independently of the source part.

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Real-Time Collision Detection in Assembly

Real-time collision detection is available in Assembly using dragging operations.

You can configure the various collision settings depending on the results being examined:
Intersecting Volume Stop on Collision Push on Collision

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Simultaneous Retrieval of Components and Graphics

Pro/ENGINEER now displays the graphics of each component in the graphics window during retrieval of the assembly.

Benefits and Description

While the assembly is being retrieved, you can view the components and plan the work for that session. In addition, retrieval time for assemblies has been decreased.

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Undo and Redo Support for Assembly Operations

The Undo and Redo commands are now available in Assembly for all general assembly operations.

Benefits and Description

With the Undo and Redo commands within Assembly, you can revert to a state prior to the last action. If you unintentionally delete an assembly feature or component, you can undo the Delete command. Additionally, the Undo command also resets some operations. You can prevent tedious rework by using these two commands. User Interface Location Click Edit > Undo and Edit > Redo. Shortcut keys use CTRL+Z and CTRL+Y.
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