Drawings...how many problems!!!!

Discussion in 'Pro/Engineer & Creo Elements/Pro' started by edoardo fiorani, Feb 15, 2005.

  1. As I usually do,i'm asking your help again.now I'm learning how crating
    drawings and i have the typical problems of the begginer.

    1st) I noticed that Pro/e WF creates the dimensions automatically.But
    sometimes the dimesions are too much dense.Is there a particular command to
    prevent this mistake, caused by my so poor experience???

    2nd) In Europe ,as you certainly know, we draw following the ISO standard
    that quite different form ANSI ones .In particular we have a different way
    of drawing the matching HOLE-SHAFT (e.g H8/h7) and the TREADS (e.g M12
    x1.5).How could i draw them with PRO/E ???

    3rd)Limit tolerances displayed as upper and lower limit. (e.g 15.00
    +0.01 -0.05)
    Plus minus tolerances displayed as nominal with plus-minus tolerance
    when the the positive and negative values are indipendent


    4th)+- Symmetric tolerances displayed as nominal value with a single value
    for both the positive and the negative tolerance

    5th) how could i display the formats that give me the possibility of
    dimensioning a tolerance "as it is" ?

    I hope to have been clear.And please be patient if my questions are quite
    stupid.I thank you so much for the help that you offer me.
    kind regards
    edoardo
     
    edoardo fiorani, Feb 15, 2005
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  2. edoardo fiorani

    David Janes Guest

    Select/highlight the dims (they may already be selected if you already
    showed/created them). RMB 'Cleanup Dims'. Select offset and spacing and whether
    you want snap line created at the same time; hit OK.
    The selection of drawing standard is done in the drawing setup and saved in a
    drawing setup file. This can be loaded, edited and saved with
    'File>Properties>Drawing Options'. For your drawing options file to load each time
    you create a new drawing, go to 'Tools>Options' and point the option
    DRAWING_SETUP_FILE to your drawing options file. Save these settings in a place
    that will not be overwritten by a new installation of Pro/e.
    First, in your drawing setup file, make sure TOL_DISPLAY is set to YES. Otherwise,
    the selection of different tolerance modes will be greyed out. To change the
    tolerance display, select one or more dimensions, RMB 'Properties' and select the
    mode from the drop down list and fill in the tolerance value if different from the
    default one. To set the default tolerance value differently than Pro/e's default
    assigns, set the options LINEAR_TOL_0.0, etc. to the values for each number of
    decimal places each 'template' shows.

    Caution: this setup so far will display all values in drawings with either default
    or assigned tolerances. If you wish them to display, univerally, without
    tolerances and to display tolerances only by accessing 'Properties' for selected
    dimensions, set the option of TOL_MODE in 'Tools>Options' to NOMINAL.
     
    David Janes, Feb 16, 2005
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  3. will study PRO/E during this weekend and i hope to find the correct
    solution of problems,following your advice.Another thing. How could i change
    the type of line to rappresent the hiddenlines in my Drawing files.I'd like
    hidden lines to be displayed by discountinous ones (Phantom or dashed).I
    thank you again and sorry if I disturb you.
    Edoardo
     
    edoardo fiorani, Feb 18, 2005
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