Wildfire 3.0 / 4 New Datum Creation HELP!

[andythefiredog]

Hello...

New member here, and loving the site so far.

I am by no means a newcomer to Pro/Engineer, having used it since I was
13 years old...

The thing is, my family's engineering firm is now working with Wildfire 3
and 4, while my experience has been limited to 2000i2 and 2001.

I've picked up on most changes fairly quickly, but for the life of me, I
cannot create Datums, especially Angled Datums, etc.

The process in Wildfire seems so much less intuitive.

Let's say that I model a cube 50mm by 50mm, then create a datum that's
offset from either of the central datum by 10mm, and at an angle of 60
(or 30) degrees...

2000i2 makes this a breeze, but Wildfire's intent manager allows very
little flexibility, automatically managing everything...

What am I doing wrong here?


Thanks

 

[CRang72]

If I understand correctly, make a new datum plane offset from one of the main datum planes (DTM1). Then, create a datum axis (A_1) through DTM1, and the other central plane (the one you didn't use as a reference for DTM1). Now, create your angled datum plane through A_1, using DTM1 as your angle reference plane. Is this what you were looking for?

 

[andythefiredog]

Believe it or not, it was even simpler than that!

I just needed to hold down the CTRL key to select multiple references!!

Haha.. Great. Thanks for your help though, I actually need to do what you're
saying next!

I appreciate it!!