"Jeff Howard" wrote in message news:FAAfc.11740$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
Jeff, My WF date code is 2002490, rather old, but I've never had any reasons to update it. My license is, of course, commercial, too. I use node-locked license because I am a one-man company and therefore have no need to float my licenses over the network to share them with anybody. A node-locked license gives me an additional small benefit of avoiding an (admittedly very low) overhead of FlexLM. As I have said, I have no idea what the WLO module is. This information can probably be found somewhere on the PTC website, but my maintenance contract has expired 4 months ago, and with it my ability to access member areas of PTC website. Sometime soon, probably when the WF2 comes out, I'll be renewing my contract and will be able to research this issue. Until then, somebody else will have to do it. As soon as I open a part or create a new part in WF, the items in the submenu under 'Insert'=>''Shared Data'=> become available. This submenu contains 'From File', 'Publish Geometry', 'Copy Geometry from Other Model', 'Shrinkwrap from Other Model', 'Merge from Other Model', 'Cutout from Other Model', 'Inheritance from Other Model'. Of these items, only 'Cutout from Other Model' is greyed out. Of the available choices I personally have only used 'Copy Geometry from Other Model' to create one-part copies of the outside geometry of assemblies I've been designing jigs and fixtures for. So I am pretty sure Copy Geometry works just fine, but cannot say whether the rest are completely functional or are simply not greyed out. Maybe somebody else on this NG who uses Foundation Advantage can expand on these other functions. In the assembly mode this same submenu contains 'From File', 'Copy Geometry', 'Shrinkwrap', 'Publish Geometry', 'Copy Geometry from Other Model', 'Shrinkwrap from Other Model'. Of these items, 'Copy Geometry' and 'Shrinkwrap' are greyed out, everything else is available. Now bear in mind that in WF what is available and what is greyed out often depends on what (if anything) is selected in the graphics area. All above descriptions are for situations in which NOTHING has been selected yet. I would not be surprised if some of my greyed-out items are this way because Pro/E is waiting for me to select some geometry before it activates them. The particular 'Copy Geometry from Other Model' in my case has always been used in the same way: I would create an empty part using my template with all necessary datum planes, layers, parameters, etc., but without any geometry. Then I would copy the geometry from some assembly into this part, creating a simpler, lighter representation of this assembly.
I hope this answers your question.