Pro/ENGINEER Functionality

    Pro/ENGINEER Functionality




The basic functionality of Pro/ENGINEER is broken into four major areas:



•         Part Modeling and Design

•         Assembly Modeling and Design

•         Design Documentation (Drawing Generation)


•         General Functionality 

                              

Part Design and Modeling


Defining Geometry - Feature-Based Design

• Create sketched features including protrusions, cuts, and slots made by either extruding, revolving, or sweeping along a 2D sketched trajectory, or blending between parallel sections 
• Create pick and place features, such as holes, shafts, chamfers, rounds, shells, regular drafts, flanges, ribs, etc. 

• Sketch cosmetic features 

• Reference datum planes, axes, points, curves, coordinate systems, and 

        graphs for creating non-solid reference datum

Manipulating Geometry and Parametric Modeling


• Modify, delete, suppress, redefine, and reorder features, as well as making features "read-only" 

• Create table-driven parts by adding dimensions to the family table 

• Capture design intent by creating relations between part dimensions and parameters 

• Generate engineering information, including mass properties of parts, model cross sections, and reference dimensions 

• Create geometric tolerances and surface finishes on models 

• Assign density, units, material properties or user-specified mass properties to a model 

• Additional functionality available through Pro/FEATURE.

   Assembly Design

•   Place components and subassemblies using commands like mate, align, and insert to         create full product assemblies

•       Disassemble components from an assembly

•       Modify assembly placement offsets

•       Create and modify assembly datum planes, coordinate systems, and cross sections

•        Modify part dimensions in assembly mode

•        Generate engineering information, bills of materials, reference dimensions, and           assembly mass properties

•         Additional functionality available through Pro/ASSEMBLY

Design Documentation (Model  Drawings):

• Create numerous types of drawing views, including general, projection, auxiliary, detailed, exploded, partial, area cross-section, and perspective 
• Perform extensive view modifications, including changing the view scale and the bound-aries of partial or detailed views, adding projection and cross-section view arrows, & creating snapshot views 
• Create drawings with multiple models, delete a model from a drawing, set and high-light the current model of a drawing 

• Use a sketch as a parametric drawing format 

• Manipulate dimensions, including show, erase, switch view, flip arrows, move dimen-sions, text, or attach points 

• Modify dimension values and number of digits 

• Create, show, move, erase, and switch view for standard notes 

• Include existing geometric tolerances in drawing notes 

• Update the model geometry to incorporate design changes 

• Markup drawings to indicate changes to be made 

• Export a drawing IGES file 

• Additional functionality available through Pro/DETAIL. 




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