The Pro/E Tips and Tricks each month are a service of Synthesis Engineering, a PTC Certified Engineering Provider (CEP).  These tips cover a spectrum from complex geometry and surface modeling to assembly, drawings, short cuts and administrative functions.  They are for the novice as well as the advanced Pro/Engineer user. This Library of Pro/Engineer Tips was selected as one of the web's 10 Best for Pro/E pages.		We hope you enjoy these Pro/Engineer tips and visit often!  Tell a friend if you like what you see.  We have a new tip each month!   In addition, please let us know if you need Pro/Engineer consulting, mentoring or on-site training.  Synthesis is the best place to come for design specific education.   If you have good ideas for a tip, drop us a line.  You may also wish to visit these additional resources for Pro/E tips. Take me to today's Tip-of-the-Month >>>

 
The Synthesis  Library of Pro/Engineer Tips  - A new Pro/E Tip or Trick each month!

Symbol Key:  Part.  Assembly.  Drawing.  Sketcher.  Admin.
		April 2003	Using symbol codes for formatting Drawing Notes with a few extras.
		March 2003	Dimensioning Curvature at Spline Ends for better Continuity.
		February 2003	Creating Pro/E Model Animations that others can view without special software.
		January 2003	Moving the Scale & Rotate Center Icon for easier selection positioning.
		December 2002	Make the "Select to Keep" button the Drawing Show/Erase default option.
		November 2002	Tricks to Visualizing small Model Changes after modification and regeneration.
		October 2002	Power Tools:  Grouping features with more control of the functionality.
		September 2002	Putting Pro/E drawing and/or model File Names on the drawing and in notes.
		August 2002	Understanding and interrogating Parent/Child relationships in model genealogy.
		July 2002	Personalize your work space Toolbars for optimal performance.
		June 2002	Using a drawing table to master part Parameters for assemblies.
		May 2002	Using Intent Chains for quicker, more robust edge selection.
		April 2002	Cleaning up the table disk after eating working with the kids in Pro/E
		March 2002	Power Tools:  Evaluate Features for easy access to model measurements.
		February 2002	How to Customize and Edit Toolbar Icons for a GUI approach to mapkeys.
		January 2002	The new Relations Editor hidden in Pro/E 2001 is a hint of things to come.
		December 2001	Using the Insert Menu for "Quick Feature" creation.
		November 2001	Lock or exclude Sketcher Constraints for more control while sketching.
		October 2001	Make the Pro/E Color.map work for you.  Download available.
		September 2001	Showing Centerlines at arc centers in cross sections on drawings.
		August 2001	Creating part solids from imported DXF's.
		July 2001	Modeling tricks for making Patterns.
		June 2001	Should you make Datums "On the Fly" or as individual Discrete Features?
		May 2001	Tricks to Reordering (even when Pro/E doesn't want to ...)
		April 2001	What does it mean "WARNING: The drawing is more recent than the model"?
		March 2001	Using Windows Drag & Drop with Pro/E.
		February 2001	Pro/E 2000i2 - What were they thinking ?!.?.!  Survey results.
		January 2001	Power Tools:  Using Assembly Advanced Utilities
		December 2000	Power Tools:  Taking advantage of Group functions all-or-nothing behavior.
		November 2000	How to convert a 2D Pattern into a Non-Uniform Pattern.
		October 2000	Getting the Yellow out of exported DXF drawings.
		September 2000	Combining Drawings:  How to make 2 drawings into 1.
		August 2000	A design approach to Assembly Constraints and Top-Down Design.
		July 2000	Using groups to make Patterns of feature patterns.
		June 2000	Solving a simple problem with Shaded Viewing and speed.
		May 2000	Things to work with to correct "Show Dims" display problems.
		April 2000	Power Tools:  Gaining model control with Reference Dimensions.
		March 2000	Correcting modeling problems that occur sometimes with Text features.
		February 2000	Using the "New" Text features of 2000i (and above).
		January 2000	Using sketchers Locked DIMs & Animated Modify.
		December 1999	Using Snap Lines for neatness, speed and ease in drawings.
		November 1999	Power Tools:  Getting the most from Model Tree functionality.
		October 1999	Using Equations in Relations for maximum model control - Part 2.
		September 1999	Using Equations in Relations for maximum model control - Part 1.
		August 1999	Making a great presentation and easier work with Visibility States.
		July 1999	Tricks with the Backup Model for easier feature failure resolution.
		June 1999	Power Tools:  Driving Sketcher Relations from outside of sketcher.
		May 1999	How can you Undo only "SOME" Changes in resolve mode?
		April 1999	Setting the Default View orientation.  Includes view examples.
		March 1999	A few short tips on working with Text.
		February 1999	Working with Import Geometry and correcting problems on import.
		January 1999	Power Tools:  Creative and useful features made with Bends.
		December 1998	User Defined Features (UDF's) as Power Tools in design.
		November 1998	Power Tools:  Variable Section Sweeps for creating complex geometry.
		October 1998	Finding the "Missing" feature references in Resolve Mode.
		September 1998	Part or Assembly Layers to Drawing Layers.  (Older versions of Pro/E.)
		August 1998	Power Tools:  Using Skeleton models to augment assembly design.
		July 1998	Power Tools:  Tweak > Replace as a way to get the desired Contour.
		June 1998	Make drawings of Large Parts without getting bogged down in too many dimensions.
		May 1998	Using Short-Cuts to accelerate design.  (The first short-cuts tip.)
		April 1998	How to make and use Cross Hatching with Datum Curves and Cosmetic features.
		March 1998	Displaying Layers by View in Drawings.
		February 1998	Power Tools:  Simplifying geometry using Approximate Curves for curvature continuity.
!!		January 1998	The month the Pro/E Tip-of-the-Month idea was born.
Disclaimer:  We realize that the details in the older tips and tricks may become outdated and in some cases obsolete with new versions of Pro/E.  However, many of the concepts, even in the older tips are still valuable.  Please enjoy the good information there is, and forgive us for not updating the older tips.  We still think this site has the best ProE tips, tricks and hints on the web!  Join us each month for a new tip.

Other web sites for Pro/Engineer Tips: Olaf Corten has a nice assortment of quick Pro/E tips at: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~ocorten/tips.htm Edwin Muirhead has a collection of tips at: http://www.geocities.com/proehelp/ ProeDesigns.com appearantly got lost for a while, but they are back as ProeCentral.com. Pro-Stuff.net is a good resource for several things to do with Pro/E. A good site for some not so common Tips is at http://users.macunlimited.net/simon.toon/ProTIPS/ProTIPS.htm. If you have a good idea for a Pro/Engineer tip, trick or hint, drop us a line.

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