visibilities

[proEsnurfer]

Hi,


I am using 2004-


I am modeling a feature on whichthe wall thickness is critical. I wanted to check this using VIEW>DISPLAY SETTINGS>VISIBILITIES, where it allows you to "cut" thru the model at various depths - but the visibilities window will not allow me to adjust the CLIP and DEPTH CUE settings. Do I have to activate these in config.pro? How do I fix this so that I can use this feature?


Thanks

 

[mgnt8]

A better option might be Analysis >Model > Thickness. With this you can adjust the number of slices & their offset distance between any two points in any direction, etc.

 

[proEsnurfer]

Thanks mgnt8, I'll try that.


But I still have the problemthatthis portion of pro E - which i would like to use - is not workingfor me. If anyone could still answer the original question it would be apreciated.


Thanks

 

[dr_gallup]

I don't think there is a config.pro setting explicitly for those. Are you sure you're running your graphics card in opengl? Check your config.pro GRAPHICS setting.

 

[proEsnurfer]

My graphics setting in config.pro is set to: win32_gdi - Is there a better setting that I should switch it to.

 

[megaladon]

http://www.ptc.com/cs/cs_25/howto/alm41/alm41.htm


try this

 

[mgnt8]

Which version of Pro/E are you running? On WF 2.0, the option is for Clip% and you can move in 1% increments. This works for open_gl and win32_gdi.

 

[proEsnurfer]

version 2004 - its sounds the same as you described, but I can't move the percentage increments, its all just grayed out - thats the problem.

 

[mgnt8]

Did I miss something last year - what's version 2004? Are we talking about Pro/E or Solidworks?

 

[proEsnurfer]

pro E - Icon says: PRO-E version 2004010

 

[mgnt8]

That's the build number. You're using Pro/E 2001. All I can tell you is in Pro/E Wildfire 2.0, the VISIBILITIES functionality works. If you're active on Maintenance you can order the latest build, M171: http://www.ptc.com/cgi/cs/apps/SftUpd/SftUpdProd.pl

 

[proEsnurfer]

Thanks for all the help so far mgnt8. I am not active on Maintenance.


The thing about my whole situation is that my co-worker has the same setup as me, as far as his work station, and he can use the visibilities. So I figured it had to be a setting somewhere.