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TractorGuy14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
April 3, 2013
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Pro/E WF4 Saving in Wrong Directory

  • April 3, 2013
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I have an engineer here in my office who was working on some hydraulic hoses in Pro/Piping and ran into a strange problem. His working directory is set to a directory on the C: drive and he is pulling linestock definitions for the hydraulic hoses from our fileserver (P: drive). When he saves the hydraulic hose assembly it is saving them to the linestock directory (on P:) instead of the working directory (on C:). We have tried duplicating the issue on other workstations in the office with identical configurations but they all correctly save the hydraulic hoses to the working directory.

Has anyone else seen this issue? Do you know how to fix it?


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Dale_Rosema
Dale_Rosema23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
April 3, 2013

Is the linestock directory in the search path and he is just typing in the file name, or is he changing the directory and going to the linestock directory to click on the part?

If is the latter, that may be your issue. I have seen that when you go to a certain directory to open/assembly a part, Pro gets confused and thinks you now want to be in this directory.

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dgschaefer21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
April 3, 2013

Pro/E will save new objects in the working directory specified. If components are brought in from someplace else, when you save the parent object (assy or drawing) they will save back to where they came from.

Dale_Rosema
Dale_Rosema23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
April 3, 2013

So if they havn't save it yet, they when they pull in other things, it could possibly save it other than intended. But if they save it first before importing/assembling, then it should save correctly?

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mjcole_ptc1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 3, 2013

TractorGuy, do you work at John Deere?

Is ProE/CreO not allowing your colleague to choose where he saves? (greyed out file save window)

Your issue can be fixed using the following Config Options.
Override_store_back Yes
Save_object_in_current Yes

Typically with no other options set, ProE will save objects back to their original location they were opened from.

The First option Disables this.

The Second option will tell ProE to save the files in your working directory instead of the opened from location and will prevent the Save Dialog from disabling your ability to choose where to save the files.

The Config options dialog gives more information shown to the right of the Options value column.

Michael

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TractorGuy14-AlexandriteAuthor
14-Alexandrite
April 4, 2013

I do not work for John Deere...but I work for a company that makes engines, transmissions, and a few tractors for John Deere.

To answer your question, it's not an issue of Pro/E greying out the option to save. It is an issue of Pro/E suddenly changing the working directory for a part that was created in the original working directory.

I will give those options a try and see what happens.

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TractorGuy14-AlexandriteAuthor
14-Alexandrite
April 4, 2013

We tried those options and it does the same thing...if a linestock definition is pulled from the network drive (P:) and the working directory is a directory on C:, it still changes the working directory to P: when the hose assembly is created.

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