Yep, I understand what you are saying. I think that it's sometimes the difference between parametric vs. non-parametric rather than Pro/E vs. BrandX. Building a "robust" parametric part is very much like programming and using parametric functions almost always imposes additional overhead.
If I were doing this I would probably dump it out to Rhino; adjust surface isoparm display, extract wireframe, intersect the curves to create points. All done in three operations and a matter of minutes; quite similar to MDT.
The benefits, where necessary, of a history based parametric modeler are illustrated by the attached, though. (Had to try *.rar vs. *.zip to squeeze it under the 500 KB posting limit.) Edit the parameters (Tools, Parameters) "x_spaces" and "z_spaces" then regen the model. (Curiosity got the best of me, wanted to see if I could get to behave.
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2005-07-03_170122_prt0003.prt.rar
If I were doing this I would probably dump it out to Rhino; adjust surface isoparm display, extract wireframe, intersect the curves to create points. All done in three operations and a matter of minutes; quite similar to MDT.
The benefits, where necessary, of a history based parametric modeler are illustrated by the attached, though. (Had to try *.rar vs. *.zip to squeeze it under the 500 KB posting limit.) Edit the parameters (Tools, Parameters) "x_spaces" and "z_spaces" then regen the model. (Curiosity got the best of me, wanted to see if I could get to behave.
2005-07-03_170122_prt0003.prt.rar