I have been using Proe WF2 for only a short time and I need to create a second coordinate system that I can orient the z axis by 14 degrees. I have read tons of information on creating and orienting another coordinate system but obviously, I missed the relevant info because It doesn't work for me. I click on the DATUM COORDINATE SYSTEM icon and it either crashes ProE or just flashes temporarily in the model tree and then disappears. I don't get the window that allows me to choose the settings (like the help files say I should get). I have tried using INSERT, MODEL DATUM, COORDINATE SYSTEM and it does just the same as the icon. I have tried with a new empty part file, a regular part file and an assembly file. I have tried using surfaces and solids. All fail. Is there some setting, maybe in config that can fix this? How do I do it? Thanks for any information that you can give.
I have been using Proe WF2 for only a short time and I need to create a second coordinate system that I can orient the z axis by 14 degrees. I have read tons of information on creating and orienting another coordinate system but obviously, I missed the relevant info because It doesn't work for me. I click on the DATUM COORDINATE SYSTEM icon and it either crashes ProE or just flashes temporarily in the model tree and then disappears. I don't get the window that allows me to choose the settings (like the help files say I should get). I have tried using INSERT, MODEL DATUM, COORDINATE SYSTEM and it does just the same as the icon. I have tried with a new empty part file, a regular part file and an assembly file. I have tried using surfaces and solids. All fail. Is there some setting, maybe in config that can fix this? How do I do it? Thanks for any information that you can give.
Hi Ben. Thanks for replying so promptly. I will have to check the build at work next week. But you say that you can create a coordinate system with no problem. If you create a new part file and there is nothing on screen except the three datum planes and the default coordinate system, can you add another coordinate system and rotate the z axis, just by clicking the icon in the datum toolbar? This is what I need to do and the help files say that should happen, but with me, it doesn't do it. If it works for you, then there is something wrong with my system. The administrator is off sick right now but as soon as he comes back to work I will talk to him. In the meantime, it would be nice to solve the problem then I can continue to work on the project. Thanks again Speedbump
Hi David, the computer is a P4, 2.4Ghz with 1 G ram and high end video card etc. The machine works great with ProE normally except this feature. Unless it has a faulty ram chip or some other glitch that I am not aware of. I take it from your response that it should create the coordinate system with no problems. So there is no setting in ProE that I can make to fix this? Maybe it needs to be reinstalled. Possible corrupted file. It looks like I will have to wait for the Admin to look at it.
What I was looking for was hard facts, so that I could put your hardware setup in the certified/supported column.... or not. So, is your hardware on this list:
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not, you've entered the Helpdesk "crapshoot" area. Maybe they have an idea what's going on but, since you saw fit to buy the offbrand "cheap" stuff, you're on your own. BTW, Intel P4 with a gig of ram and a "high end" graphics card can be on a Systemax 'gaming screamer' from Tiger Direct. If you're used to running $35 cards, then the $350 ATI card is a "high end" graphics card, so, if we're not precise, the jargon, like "high end", gets in the way. The PTC list tells you what Pro/e runs well on and that's ALL that counts. If you're not running Pro/e on "certified/supported" hardware, results WILL vary!!! Sorry to insult you if you are WELL AWARE of all these hardware technical issues: it's just that your response to my query on hardware sounded as if you were completely oblivious to the role the hardware plays in the successful, crash-free implementation of a Pro/e installation.
Yup, pretty much. They put functions in their software that work when you press an icon. Generally, if it doesn't work on your license configuration, (i.e., you need to order another module to get the functionality), the icon or menu item will be greyed out. If it craps out, it's a programming or hardware problem, NOT a configuration problem. NO configuration is MEANT to make the program crash. (Otherwise, users would have sued their asses off a long time ago.) On two systems I work on, it works just fine... ¡no problemo!
There never was a setting in Pro/e that made or prevented crashes. I never heard of a crashing problem being solved by changing a setting in config.pro, sorry, it's never been that easy or obvious.
Hi David, the problem was solved by re-installing the program. Must have been a corrupted file. Wonder why I didn't suggest that! You know, usually a simple, straight forward answer is the best. Of course that wouldn't allow one to impress the world with his superior skill and knowledge. By the way, I wonder how many times ProE failed to perform a single operation when everything else was working, because it was running on "cheap", "non David Janes approved" equipment. Remind me not to ask you for directions downtown in case you send me on a roundabout trip to another city and insult my choice of vehicle.
Anyway, I thank you for the last two parts of your reply which are more to the point and are all that was needed.
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