round thru curve

[design-engine]

I am showing some students in a surfacing class the forum but during the discussion a round thru curve question came up. Have not done one of those. Anyone shed some light on that...

 

[sip]

Bart,


This is a simple example.


2007-10-30_184216_prt0001.prt.zip


Sip

 

[mjcole_ptc]

Bart I've posted a trailfile I mentioned and now was able to upload on the other site.

This will allow you to use set_trail_single_step yes config option if you want to demonstrate the Round Thru Edge functionality and have your class follow step by step.

Simple explanation is that regular rounds are tangent to the surfaces they end on while Round thru edge allows you Give a Radius for a Round equal to 2 from a flat surface to a boss half of that value and end up with the round hitting the surface at a 45deg angle or add an even larger radius and have it remain tangent to a face and going thru the edge changing the tangent edge diametr by using a larger radius value.

My trailfile should create a basic rectangular extrusion a cylinder and the Round feature then perform a File Open to allow Pro/E to pause and not crash.

Trail was created on WF3 trial edition but it should run on WF2 as well I couldn't check it because I only have WF2 student edition which doesn't allow trailfile usage.

Post with download link
ROUND THRU EDGE POST AND TRAIL FILE

Or
Direct Link to trailfile


Ignore the excess info I put in as help for people who haven't used trailfiles before.

Enjoy,
Michael

 

[design-engine]

cool. How long has that been in there. Just wondering how long I have ignored that

 

[dgs]

It's been around forever. Here's a screen shot form 2001, but I know it was there before that:


View attachment 4367


I think you can also use it to create a variable radius round where one side's tangent edge is on the curve. I haven't used it enough to be sure.

 

[kirancitd]

it is there in Proe 2000i also.
Edited by: kirancitd

 

[super_puh]

Can someoneupload his/her startpart.prt that thise trailfile usesbecause I changed My long time ago