Recent content by JohnAndrews

I have been told that Wildfire 4 has non-linear material - this is being launched at the PTC User Event in Tampa in June.

Try this: Insert - Shape - Rip Now sketch a line representing the rip, right into the bend corner. Define the "Bound Surfs as the bottom surfaces of the L-Shape, and the corner rad surface Repeat for the opposite side.

There is a very good tutorial here: http://www.ptc.com/cs/cs_26/howto/apm11683/apm11683.htm The pinion is the cylindrical rotating item and needs to be assembled with a pin joint, the rack is the straight component and needs to be assembled with a slider. This rack/pinion gear connection should...

Have you considered other alternatives to work with your huge assembly: Simplified Reps - lots of choices here - exclude all small components, simplify the complicated parts, envelope parts, etc..... Drawing Reps Z-Clipping the view Buying a 64bit workstation.....

Norb, Try Analysis>Hide All Or Analysis>Saved Analysis>- (Delete selected analysis) Or Analysis>Delete/Delete All You can also save the analysis as a feature (you probably need BMX license for this) Hope this helps John

Under View Display select YES for "Hidden Line Removal for Quilts"

Michael, In WF3 you can shortcut all the cancel menus: If you are sketching a feature and want to completely exit, just hit the red X in the bottom right hand corner - just one confirmation and you're out. I'd like to see the right hand mouse button options controlled in config.wi John

The Mechanisms Central Resource page on ptc.com has Mechanism Dynamics examples.

I presume that you are trying to simulate the gear mechanism. If so then the Mechanisms Central Resource page on ptc.com should help: http://www.ptc.com/cs/cs_25/howto/apm11083/apm11083.html Various gear examples: http://www.ptc.com/cs/cs_26/howto/apm11683/apm11683.htm

I use this method with top down design, where I want to create different family table instances of an assembly which uses a skeleton part to drive the components in the assembly. For Example, I want to design a square box with a lid, and have different size instances of the box and lid. I have...

You can select all the dimensions to add to your layer by changing the "Smart" filter in the bottom right hand corner of Wildfire to "Dimensions", then drag a box over the whole drawing.

Rather than making a small flange wall on the sloping side of the trapezium, make a full wall like the one opposite, and then cut it back to produce the flange.

You need a drawing view flat onto the holes, and a co-ordinate system in that view with its z-axis normal to that view.

Ed, I've tried setting up a combined state with shading and HLR on different components, and using that state in a drawing view, and it doesn't seem to work. I think this is a bug. John

Set the config.pro option: file_open_default_folder working_directory and this will cure the problem.