Ordinate dimensions & lost references - WF3

lylebeidler · ‎Sep 22, 2011

I have a printout of an article from the 2007 ProFilesMagazine (which
apparently is no more? Website is gone). It's entitled "Ordinate Dimension
and Lost References in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0" by Andreas Wenzel. It
describes a procedure where, if you lose the origin geometry of your
ordinate dimensions, you can convert the first one back to linear, and Edit
Attachments, and convert it back to ordinate, and all the other ordinates
regen correctly. However, this does not appear to work in WF3- it looks
like I need to delete them all & recreate them. Does anyone have any way to
make this procedure, or one like it, work in WF3?

Thanks

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ptc-879827 · ‎Sep 22, 2011

I use that function in WF3. Sometimes it's tricky picking the first dimension to convert to linear. If you picked the correct dimension, you should get a warning about another "0" already exists, and do you want to use it. Agree and it should work.
Thanks
Greg

Greg Ames
greg.ames@suburbantool.com
Designer
Suburban Tool & Die
4940 Pacific Ave.
Erie, PA 16506
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ptc-141274 · ‎Sep 22, 2011

Let me know. I am on WF4 M190 and I am having that same issue now.

Both of my ordinates are purple and I would like to avoid re-dimensioning that view.

Doug

ptc-879827 · ‎Sep 22, 2011

I'm lost. I just trashed a drawing to test it and I can pick convert the lowest number, edit attach, and continue no problem. You only want to be picking the non 0 number, so try picking the second smallest number. If you do get the pick worked out, make sure when it asks for the baseline you pick the baseline side of the dim you just edited. I'm using WF3 m110 if that might matter.
Thanks
Greg

Greg Ames
greg.ames@suburbantool.com
Designer
Suburban Tool & Die
4940 Pacific Ave.
Erie, PA 16506
TEL: 814-833-4882
FAX: 814-833-1370
www.suburbantool.com

ptc-141274 · ‎Sep 26, 2011

I have a need to drag components from various places in an large assembly model tree to the bottom. This can be a real drag trying to get them to the bottom quickly.

I just keep the mouse quivering over the bottom of the model tree to keep it scrolling down word.

Is there a better way?

Doug

WF5

merrill.rosenow · ‎Sep 27, 2011

I've never tried this, but a simple work around would be to make a large group of components. You could then drag from one side of the group to the other. Depending on if you have and the complexity of the family table though, this may not be an option.