TUTORIAL: Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Assembly Restructure ToolVersion: ProE Wildfire, Wildfire 2.0, Wildfire 3.0, Wildfire 4.0 The assembly restructure tool allows you to reorder your assembly structure between main assembly and sub assemblies in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. Below are the operations than you can perform using the assembly restructuring tool.
1. Move a component from main assembly to sub-assembly.
2. Move a component from sub-assembly to main assembly.
3. Move a component from sub-assembly to another sub-assembly.
4. Move a sub-assembly into different level of sub-assembly.
Download the assembly file used in the tutorial below: asm_restructure.zip |
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TUTORIAL: Spring - Make Flexible in Pro/ENGINEER AssemblyVersion: Pro/E Wildfire, Wildfire2.0 and Wildfire3.0 Elastic items always fit into the assigned space in an assembly. It may change its length, width, major & minor diameter or/and so on. Common elastic items in engineering are spring (compression, tension, torsion), rubber and foam.
In any MCAD, we used to draw a few of the elastic model with different dimensions. For example, spring can fit into an assembly with varies of length. So spring model like spring_10mm, spring_12mm, spring_15mm are created and inserted into assembly. There is nothing wrong except the Bill of Materials (BOM) or part list. Instead of displaying Spring in 3 units, the BOM shows spring_10mm, spring_12mm, spring_15mm in 1 unit each. This has created an inaccurate BOM.
In Pro/ENGINEER, we use the flexible component to overcome this problem. Flexible component will allow us to make its dimension varies when it is fit into assembly. In this tutorial, we are using a compression spring as the sample. |
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