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KrisR1-Visitor
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April 20, 2012
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Changing unit on a part that's an imported IGES

  • April 20, 2012
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Is there a way to do this?

I imported the iges and saved as a Pro part, but cannot seem to change units. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks....and good morning! TGIF!


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Best answer by KevinBradberry

You could bring an IGES into Pro-E either by going to File>Open and selecting the IGES file (you need to change the selection filter to All Files), or you can have a part already open and go to Insert>Shared Data>From File and then select yor IGES file.

I don't know that it will matter, but give either way a try and see if you have the same problem each time.

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JOHNQ1-Visitor
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April 20, 2012

Hi Kris,

Pending your PROE Version, In PROE Wildfire 5 you go to FILE / PROPERTIES / and then on top oof window you will see UNITS. To the right you will see CHANGE. Select the units you desire Earlier PROE Versions, Ver2 I believe you can find it in Setup/ UNITS.

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Vladimir_G1-Visitor
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April 20, 2012

Hello, Kris.

And in Creo 1.0 you should click File/Prepare/Model Properties/Materials/Units/Change.

Good luck!

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Patriot_177622-Sapphire II
22-Sapphire II
April 25, 2012

I would never "open" a STEP or IGES file. ALWAYS create a new part using the start part, and "Insert, shared Data" as Kevin suggested. This way you get your units, datums, layers, parameters, views, relations, etc. Since for me, any imported file has been from a vendor, I have a unique start part for vendor items.

But, if you want to rescale AFTER the fact, go to: "Edit, Scale Model" and it will let you scale the model.

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    KrisR1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    April 26, 2012

    When receiving an IGES assy, can this be opened in our Pro start part or does it have to be opened in a start assembly?

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    BrianMartin13-Aquamarine
    13-Aquamarine
    April 26, 2012

    You should be able to do either... provided the IGES model was of an assembly. I know it works this way with STEP. I see no reason why it wouldn't be this way for IGES. Maybe someone else can confirm?

    Thanks!

    -Brian

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