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I'm doing some modeling in ProE after using Solidworks; in SW I can click a button that allows me to set my view according to a face or plane. I can't figure out how to accomplish this in ProE...any ideas?
If You use start template part, You should have at least 3 datums planes there. Taking this as basis part should contain some basic orientation which You find in Saved View list
however there is no option to choose to obtain funcionality what You want to by default.
To have such funcionality mapkey should be created.
diggg, if you want a view on a flat face, first create a datum plane on it. Go to View Manager and select Orient ( you should see the default right, left, top etc ). Create New and name it ( view01). Now right click on that view and select redefine, you get a dropdown menu to select your corresponding views to orientate the view (default are front and top ).
When you want to look directly at a face click the reorient view icon. Then for Reference 1 leave the orientation at front and pick the face you want to look at. For Reference 2 Pick another planar entity that you want to face to the TOP, RIGHT, BOTTOM, or, LEFT.
In solidworks it guesses an angular orientation relative to the face, in ProE you have to descretly define your orientation with a reference in the Reference2 field.
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