(10-09-2020, 10:46 AM)ted johnson Wrote: Hi, Bruce. I thank you. Next time I fire up the old Pro computer, I'm going to try to do that. As for making the Mac 101 rod into the West Bend rod, I just did things the hard way. Copied and modded the Mac rod to make an 820/610 one and did the drawing over again from scratch. Thank goodness we'd decided not to use GD&T, since most of the machine shops we use aren't Y-14.5 conversant. It's been many years since I took the GD&T course at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. I still have the manuals and the knowledge, but both are tucked away and would have to be dug out! I was a contract guy for my last 17 years of design engineering work, so I only got to use Pro/E for a few years. I used Unigraphics II for a lot of years, then Intergraph IEMS for quite a long time at Kennedy Space Center. I was even forced to do MicroStation 2D at Peter Paul candy factory for a few months. I just couldn't take any more 2D drawing. I was at Sandia National Labs for five years where we used Pro/E on DOD/DOE satellites. The last version I used at Sandia was Wildfire 5. It's not a bad system, but when it sits for months between projects, one has a bit of a warm-up period! It's fun going back to build fun projects. Thank you again. Ted
Ted, I thought about it some more & realized I gave you a bum steer- The drawing has to be up in the new directory before you open and rename the part- then erase memory, go to the dwg and it should reading the new part #; then rename the dwg. I worked at Bendix Aerospace (later merged w/Honeywell Aero) for 41 yrs designing E/M components for Mil space vehicles (oops, that missile's coming straight at your house- but I'm pretty much definitely sure I didn't work on that one). We used ANSI Y-14.5 & GD&T on the dwgs, but I had the feeling that on some of the stuff, the machine shop guy probably looked at it & said 'BS to that GD&T crap, I know what they want!' I miss the CAD work but not the corporate crapola. Take care. Loved that purple Swoopster of yours.