Solid modeling tips and techniques
Customizing Windows XP
Specific requirements for Windows NT
Information on the mailing lists run by PTC and the Pro/USER group
File Management Tips
Which files can be safely deleted during routine file maintenance?
Utilities to clean up extraneous files
DOS batch files and Unix scripts
Surface Modeling
Never submit parts with suppressed features to PDM/Intralink
Never submit an assembly with suppressed components to PDM/Intralink
Best practices for modeling
Best practice for assembly mode
Best practice for database management
Add drafts and rounds last
Use open sections
Use datum references for subassembly
Best practice (model)
Remove datums without references
Save early, save often
Suggested best practices for Pro/ENGINEER drafting
Show dimensions whenever possible
Remove unused models from drawing
Proper master model merge technique
Does anyone have a decent startup batch file?
Use cuts instead of protrusions
Direct Links to Pro/User site
Plotting and Printing
Converting postscript plot files to EPS
Creating PDF files
Mapkeys and Trail Files
Use consistent length file names
Does anyone have a decent color map?
Increase your shade quality
Use a light file
Maintain consistent merge hierarchy
Never use an IGES surface as a base surface
Limit surface modeling to base protrusion
Remember the reference hierarchy - datums, planes, edges, points
Mirror geometry with surface transform
Layer Management
Mapkeys to manage layer status
Limit layer definitions
Networking issues including performance and remote access
How can I run Pro/E at home?
Virtual Memory Configuration
How do you distribute updates?
Third Party Software
Links to sites offering models of generic (and not-so-generic) parts
LF/LN - Layers On/Off
ISO - Reorient Isometric
TRI - Reorient Trimetric
QS - Increase Shade Quality to 10
LGH - Load Light File
Product View Express
What's an easy way to do mass updates?
Is there a complete list of "All of Type" features?
_TRAIL - Run a trail file
LLP - Run "fix part layer" trail file
Trail Files
Part Layer Fix
Printing to multiple trays
What to do with listed error messages:
Geometry is missing
Installation tips
Command line setup - 2000i^2
PTC Knowledge Base Monitor
Pro/E Style Pointers
Pro/E: The Magazine
Pro/E: The Benchmark
Version Specific: Version 2000i^2
How do I get rid of the blended background?
Have you discovered the config.cdb file?
Answers to common questions
Beware of 'winbootdir'!
Why don't dual dimensions show?
Benchmarks
The OCUS R2000i Benchmark
SPEC Benchmarks
The Pro/ENGINEER Perl Mailing List
LLA - Run "fix assembly layer" trail file
Assembly Layer Fix
Windows installation tips
Explorer mouse shortcuts
Trail file management
Thread Note
Installation: Help Files
Changing help file locations; browser location
Volume Note
WARNING: Model changed since mass props calculated.
The parametric center of gravity
Special Symbols
PVX - Load config.pro for Product View Express
Pro/E Style Pointers: Drafting
Load Config.pro for Product View Express
2-D Table
Thin sections
Standard Relations
Keep layers simple
Resolve "Missing references"
No tolerances displayed on drawing
Set extents early
Locate default coordinate system inside model extents
Eliminate tangent dimensions for horizontal/vertical
Eliminate symmetric half-dimensions
Importing and exporting to other CAD packages
SolidWORKS import/export
MasterCAM import/export
MasterCAM config.pro for IGES
SolidWORKS config.pro for IGES
Why does Pro/E place all components at origin?
A question of accuracy
Develop a consistent "save state"
QW-Quit Window
Add standard simplified reps
Set display modes consistently
Establish basic parameters
Linux questions
Turning off default drawing templates
Different things you can do with a parametric note
Include a Pro/ENGINEER symbol in a note
There are a few software utilities available for free
Creating parameters that can be read with outside programs
Get tough on geom checks
Why LPR printing is cool
Proper mirror part creation technique
Turning off Intent Manager
How to disable the annoying "Sketcher Enhancement" window
Composing Windows special symbols
Getting the symbol palette to show
Hiding pipe centerlines
Redefining IGES files
Use Neutral file to improve IGES output
Predicting IGES surface gaps
Choose accuracy according to need
You can reroute anything, if you're willing...
You know you're good when you can re-route ahead of failure
Model Quality
Accuracy
Original reference not found, using alternate
Default display for adding new views
What happened to "Select to Keep" in the show/erase dialog box?
What are the new config.pro options in 2000i?
compress_output_files
Hardware issues
Has anyone run Pro/E with multiple monitors?
How do I get hidden lines to display in color?
Forcing multiple versions of a model into memory
Things you can do in an alternate window
PDM products supporting multiple CAD systems
Alternative PDM solutions
Alternative PDM solutions : CMS
Suppressed features
Delete erased views
Things you can do to your Dell Precision Workstation
Buy remanufactured - a real no-brainer
Buy some RAM at Crucial.com
Add an NVIDIA GeForce card
STL Viewers
STL Viewers: Solid Player
Virtual Memory Limitations
http://www.proefaq.com/archive/254.html
Performance tuning
Short Edges
Geometry Checks
Can Pro/ENGINEER import or export Parasolid files?
Get your red hot independent mode license
Consistent units
Special parameter @S
Special Parameter @O
Cheating at Geometric Tolerances
What file extensions does Pro/E use?
True Type font support
Default layer types
Things that ultimately need to be layered off
Ordinate .000 dim's
Cosmetic threads
How do I show a bolt circle?
Batch distribution
Superscript and subcript text
Drawing labels
Pen Tables
"Step" your way through imports
How does Pro/E handle higher order surfaces?
Negative values need $
Accuracy questions - Mechanica
Adding a logo
Adding PERL to your arsenal
Purge script
All the default layers you could ask for
Search Paths
Too many search directories
Variable driven search paths
New in 2001 - Pro/E imports ACIS
PDF Viewing and Searching Demo
Are there any issues running AMD Athlon?
Product Center by Workgroup Technology Corporation
SmartVault by SmarTeam
eMatrix by MatrixOne
NetMeeting by Microsoft
Family table config.pro options
What do the drawing setup file options "ignore_model_layer_status" and "draw_layer_overrides model" do?
Taking Intralink files home
Running Pro/E on portables
Use "through curve" round
What's the easiest way to change dimension tolerance modes?
WARNING: highlighted loop in cross-section XXXXX may be incomplete. Undocumented environment variable: PDM_USES_WAN = TRUE
Allow_move_view_with_move
What happened to my middle button?
Windows XP customization
Creating TIFF images in Pro/E
Filtering through Pro/Desktop
How to create a crosshatch
Running the file vault on NAS
How do I run Pro/E from a network installation
Logitech trackball problems
How do I limit display of certain entities to a single view?
McMaster-Carr Supply Company
Thomas Register
How can I automatically execute a batch file?
Why doesn't my DXF import look like the AutoCAD drawing?
FLEXlm version of vendor daemon is too old?
How do I create a toroidal bend?
Spin_with_part_entities
Reduce_spin_flash
The Pro/E Dongle
Netbeui and TCP/IP
Pro/Batch
View_Scale_Format
Question: Is there an alternative to Acrobat Distiller for creating PDF's?
Cosmetic Thread Display
Where did my cosmetic sketches disappear to?
February Tips
Clusty Search
drafting
Efficiency
Intralink
Links
Privacy Statement
Sketcher
Style
Tips