Changing refernce

[sk_astroman]

Dear All,



I'm using Wildfire-4.0 M170

I have created a model which has lot of features that are have reference of a datum plane 1. now I have created new datum plane at the same place(as coincide to dtm pln 1) where datum plane 2 with zero distance presents. Now i have to change the reference for all the features I created from Datum plane 1 to Datum plane 2.

Problem is its take long time to edit reference or redefine all the features to change the plane reference.

Is it possible to change the reference for all feature in one time process? ie select the all the children of datum plane 1 and change the reference plane as datum plane 2.


- Karthikeyan.

 

[dgs]

Right click on the feature you want to change and select
'Edit References'.

A dialog asks if you want to roll back the model, say no.

Then a set of cascading menus appears, asking for new
refs.In that menu you want to ignore the prompt and
select 'Replace ref' at the top. (If anyone knows how to
get to this directly, I'm all ears.)

For a datum plane, you can select either 'Feature' or
'Indiv Entity', it doesn't matter. (More on that later).

Now select the plane you want to replace, then select the
new plane (Watch the message area for prompts.)

Lastly, you'll be asked to select a feature to apply the
reroute to (Sel Feat) or to apply it to 'All Children'.
You want 'All Children'.

The Feature vs. Indiv Entity pick will let you either
reroute all the children of all parts of a feature or
reroute the children of a specific feature entity. For
example, if you reroute an extrude with 5 surfaces and 8
edges using 'Feature', I believe that Pro/E will prompt
you for new refs for all 13 entities. By selecting
'Indiv Entity', you can pick a specific surface, edge,
vertex, etc. and reroute the children.