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lkerila1-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 19, 2011
Question

Equality Symbols

Hello folks,

Happy new years.

Say, I found I could add a less/greater than or equal symbol to my drawing
by holding the ALT key and typing the ASCII code # 242 or 243. Great! Why
isn't this in the Pro/E symbol palette?

Now for the bummer: when I create a PDF file (straight from Pro) it
DOESN'T PRINT the symbol! WTF?

Any solutions, other than creating my own custom symbol?

Cheers,

-Lar

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A.DelNegro1-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 24, 2011
I have this pyramid that I would like to make a flat pattern of. For
some reason it won't let me rip one of the corners to flatten it.
Anyone have any clues why? I tried to do an edge rip using the inside
or the outside edge and all I get is the message "Could not construct
feature geometry"






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JamesKasson1-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 24, 2011
Tony,

I tried it in WF5 M060 and it seems to work all right.

I constructed one as a solid blend, selected
Application<sheetmetal<shell to=" create=" the=" first=" wall=" and=" then=" tried<br="/>both the Conversion button and the Rip button from the sheetmetal
toolbar to assign the rip corner and it worked fine with either one.
Varying the shape of the part dramatically doesn't seem to cause it to
fail, either.

Regards,
James

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frederick.burke1-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 24, 2011
Hi Tony,

Spoon feed it.
Make a solid of your final geometry. Add rounds for bent edges.
Add cuts for bend relief. Add cuts for material edge. Shell it.
Then import to sheet metal and flatten it.
Using this method also gives you amazing control over the end geometry.
Bend relief often fails when the edges are not perpendicular.
Just spoon feed it until it works.

Best regards,

Frederick Burke
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bkurth10-Marble
10-Marble
January 24, 2011


You're right, the entire line of text in the dimension changes. That sucks. Here is one workaround...not the best, but it does work.

Put your dimension in and place a single (or double) space between the left and right side of what your want your symbol to separate. Then place a free note in the blank space, put in your symbol and changethe font. Once the text is aligned properly, it willappear to be just a dimension.You can thengroup the text to an object & pick the dimension. If youhave to drag the dimension, the text will follow. I even moved the dimension from one view to another, and they still appeared okay.

Like I said, not the cleanest, but it does work.

Brian


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Actually, Brian's method has a serious short coming. When I change the font style to Cal Greek, it always changes the style for the entire line of text (dimensions too). I don't want that, since it will force me to have to create a separate note in order to work around this limitation. Any other bright ideas?
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lkerila1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
January 24, 2011




This technique does NOT work for dimensions. I didn't try it with text.

I've been using Pro/E for 20 years. Admittedly, this is the first time I've run across the need for equality symbols on a drawing. However, in this case it is a drawing for cosmetic inspection criteria. You'd think PTC would have the equality symbols built in to the symbol palette.

PTC! PLEASE FIX THIS!!!
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bkurth10-Marble
10-Marble
January 25, 2011

For those that may be interested...

This method DOES work, as described, but depending on the method used to create the output document,the text can be messed up. Lar & I spent a little time troubleshooting, and we discovered that when the SaveAs PDF function in Pro/E is used, the output is messed up. If the Acrobat Distiller is used, though, it will print okay. Not everyone has the distiller, though. If you have access to the Acrobat Distiller, it is a quite reliable PDF creator.

There are also other PDF creation programs out therethat may avoid this issue, but I have not tried them. There are various suggested PDF creation programs in other threads within the forum.

Brian

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This technique does NOT work for dimensions. I didn't try it with text. I've been using Pro/E for 20 years. Admittedly, this is the first time I've run across the need for equality symbols on a drawing. However, in this case it is a drawing for cosmetic inspection criteria. You'd think PTC would have the equality symbols built in to the symbol palette. PTC! PLEASE FIX THIS!!!
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FredMatthis1-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 25, 2011

I agree with evreyone else. PTC please fix.
Every symbol should be available in the text symbol pallett. Microsoft uses allows you to use all symbols.
Isn't Creo-Pro "Microsoft compatible"?????

In Reply to Brian Kurth:

For those that may be interested...

This method DOES work, as described, but depending on the method used to create the output document,the text can be messed up. Lar & I spent a little time troubleshooting, and we discovered that when the SaveAs PDF function in Pro/E is used, the output is messed up. If the Acrobat Distiller is used, though, it will print okay. Not everyone has the distiller, though. If you have access to the Acrobat Distiller, it is a quite reliable PDF creator.

There are also other PDF creation programs out therethat may avoid this issue, but I have not tried them. There are various suggested PDF creation programs in other threads within the forum.

Brian

In Reply to Lar Kerila:



This technique does NOT work for dimensions. I didn't try it with text. I've been using Pro/E for 20 years. Admittedly, this is the first time I've run across the need for equality symbols on a drawing. However, in this case it is a drawing for cosmetic inspection criteria. You'd think PTC would have the equality symbols built in to the symbol palette. PTC! PLEASE FIX THIS!!!
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ptc-19327451-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 25, 2011
I believe that it's worth a try to look at using true type fonts in your
documents and then checking to see if the symbol works.



Unless you enable true type fonts, none of the Microsoft font technology
will work correctly. (Font scaling, font substitution, etc...)





Christopher F. Gosnell



FPD Company

124 Hidden Valley Road

McMurray, PA 15317
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davehaigh13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
January 25, 2011
There are some instructions on how to setup Ghostscript to create a pdf from a postscript plot file in the talk I gave at last year's PTCUser conference. "ProE Admin 101, putting all the pieces together"

The information you need is on slide 54, there is a link to a pdf with more detail and if you look inside the zip files you will the batch file and some of the other related files to make it work.

This is the link to the presentation page.
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