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Noob With ProE, Help Needed

  • June 9, 2014
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Hey everyone,

I just recently started an engineering internship and this company uses ProE WF4. I don't have any CAD work under my belt except for a semester at Purdue. I am having some troubles and can't seem to find a solution. I've tried looking around the forums with no luck, probably because I don't think it should be that hard to fix.

Anyhow, my troubles are as follows. I created a sheetmetal part then flattened all of it using the unbend function in the right-hand side toolbar. I flattened the entire part to make a sketch on the flat surface in which I was trying to cut away some slots. the slots I was trying to cut away do go through a bend although my part fails to generate when I rebend the part (supress the unbend feature).

Am I going about this the wrong way? I really get caught up with some of the nit-picky things in ProE, the software we used at Purdue sure seemed a lot more straight forward but I'm sure this software has its advantages as I'm aware it's used throughout many companies. I know it's probably a dumb question but I've been stuck for a few hours now. I thought of it like how it would be manufactured in the fact that the slots would be cut away before the part was bent. Does this make sense? I can upload pictures if need be. Appreciate any and all help in advance.

Thanks all!

Best answer by dschenken

You have the wrong name - what you describe is the flat pattern feature. An un-bend asks for a surface to remain stationary and the curved surfaces to unbend. There is a corresponding bend-back feature. Only the flat pattern feature jumps to the end of the model tree and forces new features ahead of it.

A Google search will turn up a number of Proe Sheetmetal videos and there is the PTC university training, some which is free and good. learningexchange.ptc.com

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dschenken1-Visitor
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June 9, 2014

You don't supress the unbend; the cuts depend on it. You need to use bend-back.

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June 10, 2014

I have the Unbend feature as the last thing in my model tree. When I click on the flat surface in which I want to extrude slots the "insert here" on my model tree jumps above the Unbend feature and the part reverts back to it's bent state. How do I get around this? I really wish there were some free online courses to learn this software, please point me in the direction of any ! Thanks

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June 10, 2014

You have the wrong name - what you describe is the flat pattern feature. An un-bend asks for a surface to remain stationary and the curved surfaces to unbend. There is a corresponding bend-back feature. Only the flat pattern feature jumps to the end of the model tree and forces new features ahead of it.

A Google search will turn up a number of Proe Sheetmetal videos and there is the PTC university training, some which is free and good. learningexchange.ptc.com

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June 30, 2014

EDIT: Found answer ignore post

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ptc-60753921-VisitorAuthor
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July 3, 2014

Hey everyone I'm back again!

I've been having troubles finding any good tutorials about the basics of PTC WIndchill PDMLink. Could someone link some for me? I'm interested in the basic processes I'll need as an engineer such as editing existing parts and properly saving them back into the datatbase. Could someone also explain the difference between "Upload" and "Check In" functions?

The problem I'm running into is as follows. I've edited a component that used in an assembly and uploaded it's changes to Windchill via the "Upload" and "Check Out" functions. Whenever I open the assembly the component is part of, it's not the updated component. When I click on the component and update it, it asks me if I want to replace this component with the one on the server. I choose yes and it's the correct updated component. Why doesn't it automatically load the updated component? I have a feeling I may be doing something wrong when modifying the component and getting it back onto Windchill (out of my "workspace"). I appreciate any help in advance. Thanks.

Austin

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dschenken1-Visitor
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July 3, 2014

It might be better to create a new thread for this question.

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ptc-60753921-VisitorAuthor
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August 7, 2014

Hey everyone,

I'm creating a drawing and was wondering how to go about creating a drawing view that's normal to a surface. I've messed around with it for about an hour and can't seem to figure it out. Once again, Pro/E seems to hide something I think should be a click or two away. Can't swait to finish this internship so I don't have to deal with Pro/e and all it's convoluted ways. Please let me know what's the best way to go about doing this. Thanks in advance.

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August 7, 2014

Assuming the surface is planar, you pick the surface and then pick a reference normal to it. The process is exactly the same as creating new views in the model. You will want to add the model to the drawing using default orientation (or something else) so you can see it, then change the view orientation by using "Geometry References"

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August 7, 2014

Thanks for the help. your advice helped as well as the youtube video linked below I just stumbled upon. Appreciate the help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa8JZShWn9U

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August 14, 2014

is there an easy way to calculate the TOTAL surface area of a sheetmetal part? I have to find the surface area of a sheetmetal bracket as I need to get it painted. Thanks for any help in advance.

Austin

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