TIPS: Pro/E Wildfire Variable Section Sweep - Section Plane Control

Version: Pro/E Wildfire, Wildfire 2.0 and Wildfire 3.0

There are 3 options for section plane control in Variable Section Sweep feature (Normal to Trajectory, Normal to Projection and Constant Normal Direction). These options can be applied in both Constant Section and Variable Section condition.

Below is a quick explanation for each of the option.

TUTORIAL: Create swept blend using internal sketches in Pro/E Wildfire3.0

Version: Wildfire 3.0 only

Swept blend feature is modernized in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 and it is now comes with dashboard and interactive preview. The new GUI consolidates all the feature types together which includes of protrusion, cut, surface, surface trim, thin protrusion, thin cut, and thin trim. Sections selection and modification of the swept blend also become flexible and interactive.

This tutorial shows you how to create sweep blend with internal sketches.

TUTORIAL: Create surface using 6 Boundaries (N-sided Patch)

Version: 2001, Wildfire, Wildfire2.0, Wildfire3.0

Most of the surface modeling software needs minimum 4 sided boundaries to create a surface due to the free form surface mathematics - NURBS and Bezier. However, when dealing with 5 sided boundaries and above, designer may required dividing the surface into 2 or more pieces.

Using the Pro/ENGINEER parametric surface modeling tool, you are able to create a surface using 5 or more boundaries. This tool, N-Sided Patch, does not provide surface as flexible as the free form surface but it can provide you the quickest solution.

Click here to download the exercise files before you start.

TUTORIAL: Creating a flat surface in proE Wildfire

Versions: Wildfire, Wildfire2.0, Wildfire3.0

Flat surface is a planar surface created from closed boundary sketch. It is also called as Fill feature in Pro/ENGINEER. Flat surface is using the modernize interface since Wildfire version. Dashboard will appears when you hit the Fill Tool and you can choose to use either external sketch or internal sketch to create a Flat Surface.