Does Pro/E have an easy way to verify a machined housing has a minimum wall thickness of .09 and sho

[jgfrankusa]

Pro Gurus:

I create a machined housing from a casting model using merged feature.
After carving out ten surfaces, does Pro/E offer an easy way to check the
machined model that there will be enough material to machined these
surfaces? In other word, does Pro/E has an easy way to ensure that there
will be a wall thickness of .09 min all around the machined surfaces thus
preventing a break through and show where the material are less than .09
min?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Frank

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[JonathanHodgson]

Hi Frank,

In case no-one else has suggested it yet, you might like to try

[uavron]

So sorry, but doesn't the Analysis->Model->Thickness functionality of
Pro/Engineer fulfill your requirement? If not why?

All the best
Uriel Avron
Harmonic Systems Ltd.


On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Hodgson, Jonathan P <
-> wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> In case no-one else has suggested it yet, you might like to try
> GeomCaliper:
>

[ptc-46674]

Try

Click Analysis > Model > Thickness

Dave McClinton

[JonathanHodgson]

I hadn't used that tool before, but as far as I can tell it only checks
thickness on planar slices - so you can't check the minimum thickness in
any direction, say around the tip of a drilled hole.

Or am I missing something?

Jonathan

[joepaul88]

I do not know offhand exactly how to execute this automatically, however, a surface copy of the inside measured to a surface copy on the outside would give you the closest position between the two. A parameter describing the minimum, an analysis feature calculating and a relation controlling would be used. The surface copies would have to automatically include all the new surfaces created as the model progresses. That is as close as I can get this discussion.

Good luck
Joe T
WF5 m050

[BobFrindt]

I think you are right Jonathan, planar slices only.
It may be possible to trick Pro into giving you this information by
creating two new parts in an assembly which are nothing more than one part
that has a surface copy of the inner surfaces, and one part that has a
surface copy of the outer surfaces. Then you may be able to check "Global
Clearance" between the two parts?

Bob Frindt
Sr. Designer
Parker Hannifin Corporation
Parker Aerospace
Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division
8940 Tyler Boulevard
Mentor, OH 44060 USA
direct (440) 266-2359

[TimMcLellan]

Joe,



This would be achieved using a field point and a user defined analysis
(distance measurement) feature between the field point on one surface (i.e.
inside surface copy) to the other (i.e. outside surf copy).



Compute intensive but workable if you can set aside copies of inside and
outside surfaces.

Tim McLellan
Mobius Innovation and Development, Inc.

[TimMcLellan]

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