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Faking geo tags

Chris3
20-Turquoise

Faking geo tags

Does anyone know how to fake one of the new geo tags. With the old spec
you could cheat and do @[-A-@] but that doesn't work for the "plungers".

What I want is pictured below. I was able to do it that way by
assembling the part into a blank assembly and then creating another geo
datum axis with the same name. That's not going to work for my real
drawing though. Does anyone know of another way to do this? Maybe
someone has a symbol?

Chris



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ehill
1-Newbie
(To:Chris3)

I have used symbols for the situations where Pro/E doesn't let you do
all the things you should be able to, according to the standard. One is
attached. It's hard to make if flexible enough to display all the ways
you might want, so you may have to make a copy and tweak it.



Best Regards,
tafc323
1-Newbie
(To:Chris3)

And if it isn't bad enough, if you use a flexible part in an assy, the parametric bom balloons will not populate - attach to the flexible part(s).
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BrianTaylor
4-Participant
(To:Chris3)

How about the fact you can't do a rotated auxiliary view. Or the fact
every time you do a note you have to make sure your caps lock is on, Come
on capital letters are the standard for Engineering Drawings. I also hate
the fact that Pro-E is not smart enough to keep up with view and section
names like solidworks does. I wish I wish I wish PTC would take a release
a dedicate it to a major drawing mode revamp. Not scrap it but make it
just as powerful and intuitive as the modeling and analysis aspects of
Pro-E.


Brian L. Taylor
Sr. Draft/Design Engineer II
Mechanical Design Analysis Documentation Dept.
Raytheon Missile Systems
1151 E Hermans Road
Tucson, Arizona 85706
(520)545-9730
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Eric,

Wildfire 4.0 will address this issue. Please see the screen shoot.

Thanks,

Peter Nguyen
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
Alcon laboratories

Putting the plunger on an axis as in your lower picture is neither shown
nor described anywhere in the standard. You should use one of the
methods shown in figure 3-4 and described in section 3.3.2.



Regards,



Mike Foster
ATK Space




ehill
1-Newbie
(To:Chris3)

I assumed he wants to attach to the geometry of a cylindrical feature.
The problem in Pro/E is that to do that, you have to either attach the
datum axis symbol to the dimension, or to the hole geometry. Both of
those methods prevent you from showing the datum symbol in more than one
view, hence the need to create a datum symbol for an axis in some
situations.



Best Regards,

Mike is right, but if you really want to do it, in your model create two points on your axis using offset value to set the axis legnth how ever long you want the axis in the drawing view, then in the drawing view where you want the draft datum axis select the points using vertex option as your selection method (hide the points when you finished).

later Jim
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