We have a user who wants to know the following:
I'm new to Wildfire (last used 2000i in 2000 and have been on SW since then) but I'm getting back into the swing of things with a new job and Pro/E.
Despite the fact that I have to relearn how to do a great number of things, from a modelling perspective everything I could do in SW I can still do in Pro/E.
However, I haven't been able to find out how to do one thing I will do a lot. I work on plastic parts that have several pieces that fit together. each piece follows the same contour (as in front and back housing). In SW, I would create a part that contained the base geometry and then even add a parting line draft at the parting line or lines. I would then create a new model, insert this base part as my first feature and then cut the appropriate half away. this way, the front and back housings were locked together so if I wanted to change the physical size of the housing I changed the base part and then everything else updated.
How can I do this or something similiar in Pro/E? I really don't want to have several models that are supposed to be identially sized or shaped and manually have to enter dimensions as necessary effectively making more work and more areas where error could appear.
I'm new to Wildfire (last used 2000i in 2000 and have been on SW since then) but I'm getting back into the swing of things with a new job and Pro/E.
Despite the fact that I have to relearn how to do a great number of things, from a modelling perspective everything I could do in SW I can still do in Pro/E.
However, I haven't been able to find out how to do one thing I will do a lot. I work on plastic parts that have several pieces that fit together. each piece follows the same contour (as in front and back housing). In SW, I would create a part that contained the base geometry and then even add a parting line draft at the parting line or lines. I would then create a new model, insert this base part as my first feature and then cut the appropriate half away. this way, the front and back housings were locked together so if I wanted to change the physical size of the housing I changed the base part and then everything else updated.
How can I do this or something similiar in Pro/E? I really don't want to have several models that are supposed to be identially sized or shaped and manually have to enter dimensions as necessary effectively making more work and more areas where error could appear.
