sheetmetal Bug or feature?? (Its MY FAULT) -SUMMARY

[nkaminakis]

Hi everybody,

Don from PTC helped me to figure out was going wrong.
It's not a bug, it's not a feature, it's MY FAULT.

The fully story is:

Working the last years in wildfire 4-5, I thought that SMT_THICKNESS is
default Pro/E parameter which changes everytime I
change the thickness of the sheetmetal part. I thought this is a default
function to Wildfire 2.
When I decided to make a sheetmetal template for wildfire 2, I've added the
"SMT_THICKNESS" as a sheetmetal parameter
of the template. (This was my fault). Unfortunately the "SMT_THICKNESS" is
not applicable in wildfire 2.

My colleague was using the sheetmetal template with the "SMT_THICKNESS"
parameter in wildfire 2 with a default value
1mm, but the thickness of the part is something different.
When I open the sheetmetal part in WF5, the model must be regenerated, and
then pro/e reads the "smt_thickness" parameter which was stored in the part,
and updates the thickness to the default value (1mm).

So I have two options:
1) remove all the "SMT_THICKNESS" parameter from all the Wildfire 2
generated sheetmetal models -OR-
2) change the "SMT_THICKNESS" parameter to the correct value.

In any case, thank you everybody who contacted me about this, and I'm sorry
for any trouble.

Best regards
-nikos.




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[kimndave9]

Seems more like a bug in documentation -

Just yesterday I was making a mm dimensioned drawing - and needed a metric .dtl. So I went to drawing options and went about substituting mm values for the inch values.

However, one of the value descriptions, away from its start, adds the magic word 'ratio.' This lead to a short investigation which would have been unnecessary if the description was 'Ratio ...' instead of "Gap between..."

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. described it best -

Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.