We are making paint drawings in Wildfire 4 to indicate painted surfaces and masked areas for some sheet metal parts. We've cut some . 005 deep areas on an inherited part so that we can color it a different color to indicate a masked area. In the drawings, we used shaded views so that the different colored areas show up. The problem we are having is that the views look great when I bring them up on my CPU, but when the other mechanical guy brings it up on his machine, the lighting in his shaded views appears to be different and the colors are all washed out. It's as though the light is pointed directly at the planer faces in most of the views on his computer. Re- open the same shaded view drawing on my computer and it's fine.
Can't figure out why this is happening....any suggestions?
Mike
Pro/e is awful with windows stuff, like you did this and go back to it, expecting it'd be saved but it isn't....? That kind of stuff, like you can go into the assembly and do 'View>Explode' and do Default or Set position. When you do this and save, you're disappointed to realize that this didn't save with the part. So, along the way, you realize, Pro/e is loaded with teaser functionality that looks like it's doing something but it's just a taste, a lick on the sucker.
What you need to be looking for is something that lets you SAVE NAMED VIEWS! Maybe try View Manager, get something set up the way you want and give it a name, available in the drawing. ANY saved/named views are more stable, reliable, predictable than what you're doing. Nothing is automatically, OUT OF THE BOX simple, direct, easy in Pro/e. And certainly NOT windowsish. If at all, it's only reluctantly.
David Janes
Oh, and I forgot to mention, generally, for a price because the really good stuff usually requires that you buy some addon module. I don't know, for sure, but this may be one of those cases.
David Janes