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This is now our 9th year of the Pro/Engineer Tip-of-the-Month.
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| April 2006 |
Looking for the Concepts of Top-Down Design. |
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| March 2006 |
Open Drawing Models quickly right from Drawing Mode. |
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| February 2006 |
Custom BOM Balloons with text and/or parameters displayed. |
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| January 2006 |
Controlling the behaviors of Sketcher with Sketcher Preferences. |
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| December 2005 |
Tips & Techniques with Dimensioning for Arcs. |
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| November 2005 |
Creating Geometry Using Graphics or Images. |
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| October 2005 |
Graphic Visualization of Selected Surfaces. |
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| September 2005 |
Customizing Cross Section Cross Hatching. |
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| August 2005 |
A Work-Around for Centered Text. |
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| July 2005 |
Use Preview to Select Earlier Model Iterations. |
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| June 2005 |
Small Scale Parts put in Large Scale Assemblies. |
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| May 2005 |
Using IN SESSION Sections to Retrieve & Reuse Data. |
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| April 2005 |
Power Tools: Datum Curves created by Equations. |
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| March 2005 |
Speed & Stability via Hardware for Pro/E. |
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| February 2005 |
Re-Claiming Previous Version Functionality. |
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| January 2005 |
Feature Patterns that Follow a Curve. |
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| December 2004 |
WF2 Functionality for View Clipping with Cross Sections. |
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| November 2004 |
Save As > STL. |
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| October 2004 |
Using the Pro/E Trail File to Diagnose File Locations. |
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| September 2004 |
Discovering Missing or Poorly Assigned Sketcher Constraints. |
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| August 2004 |
Validating Assembly Mass Properties Calculations. |
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| July 2004 |
Displaying Materials as Parameters Linked to Material Files. |
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| June 2004 |
Power Tools: Interference / Clearance Checks. |
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| May 2004 |
A simple trick for making a Dimensioning Scheme of mirrored half parts. |
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| April 2004 |
Dimensioning schemes for easy reuse of Sketcher Sections. |
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| March 2004 |
Using Layers to hide unwanted model dimensions. |
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| February 2004 |
A tip for when Ref Patterns get confused. |
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| January 2004 |
How to Transfer a Pro/Intralink Workspace from one Machine to Another. |
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| December 2003 |
Rediscovering Good Modeling Practices for better models and greater ROI. |
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| November 2003 |
Drawing Text Style for easier reading and emphasis in drawing notes. |
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| October 2003 |
Using Pro/E Search Paths and Search.pro files. |
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| September 2003 |
Extending Draft beyond the 30 degree feature limit. |
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| August 2003 |
How to work on one Pro/E Drawing in Multiple Windows simultaneously. |
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| July 2003 |
Viewing Pro/E's model window Text Size the way you want. |
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| June 2003 |
A much more detailed look Pro/Engineer Wildfire and the reduced functionality. |
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| May 2003 |
A fun ride with sign control in Relation driven Pattern Tables. |
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| April 2003 |
Using symbol codes for formatting Drawing Notes with a few extras. |
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| March 2003 |
Dimensioning Curvature at Spline Ends for better Continuity. |
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| February 2003 |
Creating Pro/E Model Animations that others can view without special software. |
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| January 2003 |
Moving the Scale & Rotate Center Icon for easier selection positioning. |
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| December 2002 |
Make the "Select to Keep" button the Drawing Show/Erase default option. |
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| November 2002 |
Tricks to Visualizing small Model Changes after modification and regeneration. |
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| October 2002 |
Power Tools: Grouping features with more control of the functionality. |
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| September 2002 |
Putting Pro/E drawing and/or model File Names on the drawing and in notes. |
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| August 2002 |
Understanding and interrogating Parent/Child relationships in model genealogy. |
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| July 2002 |
Personalize your work space Toolbars for optimal performance. |
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| June 2002 |
Using a drawing table to master part Parameters for assemblies. |
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| May 2002 |
Using Intent Chains for quicker, more robust edge selection. |
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| April 2002 |
Cleaning up the table disk after eating working with the kids in Pro/E |
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| March 2002 |
Power Tools: Evaluate Features for easy access to model measurements. |
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| February 2002 |
How to Customize and Edit Toolbar Icons for a GUI approach to mapkeys. |
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| January 2002 |
The new Relations Editor hidden in Pro/E 2001 is a hint of things to come. |
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| December 2001 |
Using the Insert Menu for "Quick Feature" creation. |
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| November 2001 |
Lock or exclude Sketcher Constraints for more control while sketching. |
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| October 2001 |
Make the Pro/E Color.map work for you. Download available. |
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| September 2001 |
Showing Centerlines at arc centers in cross sections on drawings. |
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| August 2001 |
Creating part solids from imported DXF's. |
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| July 2001 |
Modeling tricks for making Patterns. |
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| June 2001 |
Should you make Datums "On the Fly" or as individual Discrete Features? |
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| May 2001 |
Tricks to Reordering (even when Pro/E doesn't want to ...) |
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| April 2001 |
What does it mean "WARNING: The drawing is more recent than the model"? |
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| March 2001 |
Using Windows Drag & Drop with Pro/E. |
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| February 2001 |
Pro/E 2000i2 - What were they thinking ?!.?.! Survey results. |
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| January 2001 |
Power Tools: Using Assembly Advanced Utilities |
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| December 2000 |
Power Tools: Taking advantage of Group functions all-or-nothing behavior. |
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| November 2000 |
How to convert a 2D Pattern into a Non-Uniform Pattern. |
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| October 2000 |
Getting the Yellow out of exported DXF drawings. |
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| September 2000 |
Combining Drawings: How to make 2 drawings into 1. |
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| August 2000 |
A design approach to Assembly Constraints and Top-Down Design. |
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| July 2000 |
Using groups to make Patterns of feature patterns. |
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| June 2000 |
Solving a simple problem with Shaded Viewing and speed. |
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| May 2000 |
Things to work with to correct "Show Dims" display problems. |
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| April 2000 |
Power Tools: Gaining model control with Reference Dimensions. |
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| March 2000 |
Correcting modeling problems that occur sometimes with Text features. |
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| February 2000 |
Using the "New" Text features of 2000i (and above). |
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| January 2000 |
Using sketchers Locked DIMs & Animated Modify. |
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| December 1999 |
Using Snap Lines for neatness, speed and ease in drawings. |
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| November 1999 |
Power Tools: Getting the most from Model Tree functionality. |
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| October 1999 |
Using Equations in Relations for maximum model control - Part 2. |
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| September 1999 |
Using Equations in Relations for maximum model control - Part 1. |
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| August 1999 |
Making a great presentation and easier work with Visibility States. |
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| July 1999 |
Tricks with the Backup Model for easier feature failure resolution. |
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| June 1999 |
Power Tools: Driving Sketcher Relations from outside of sketcher. |
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| May 1999 |
How can you Undo only "SOME" Changes in resolve mode? |
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| April 1999 |
Setting the Default View orientation. Includes view examples. |
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| March 1999 |
A few short tips on working with Text. |
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| February 1999 |
Working with Import Geometry and correcting problems on import. |
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| January 1999 |
Power Tools: Creative and useful features made with Bends. |
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| December 1998 |
User Defined Features (UDF's) as Power Tools in design. |
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| November 1998 |
Power Tools: Variable Section Sweeps for creating complex geometry. |
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| October 1998 |
Finding the "Missing" feature references in Resolve Mode. |
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| September 1998 |
Part or Assembly Layers to Drawing Layers. (Older versions of Pro/E.) |
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| August 1998 |
Power Tools: Using Skeleton models to augment assembly design. |
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| July 1998 |
Power Tools: Tweak > Replace as a way to get the desired Contour. |
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| June 1998 |
Make drawings of Large Parts without getting bogged down in too many dimensions. |
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| May 1998 |
Using Short-Cuts to accelerate design. (The first short-cuts tip.) |
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| April 1998 |
How to make and use Cross Hatching with Datum Curves and Cosmetic features. |
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| March 1998 |
Displaying Layers by View in Drawings. |
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| February 1998 |
Power Tools: Simplifying geometry using Approximate Curves for curvature continuity. |
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| 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.
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