Presented By: Weidong WU, Ph.D. Date:

Part I Creating a drawing format for the paper size A (11 x 8.5) 1. Start Pro/E wildfire. 2. File  set working directory…  Your directory. 3. Choose File  New, and for the type select format option. 4. Type in my-format as the file name  OK. 5. A window of New Format appears. Select Empty, Landscape and Standard size A  OK. We get the following images.

6. To create the frame, select the icon of line. A window for sketching the frame appears. Right click and hold, and a pop up window appears. 7. Select Absolute Coordinates. Type in 0.50 for X and 0.25 for Y, press the Enter key. Repeat this for the next point (10.75, 0.25). 8. Repeat step 7 to create another horizontal line from (0.50, 8.25) to (10.75, 8.25). 9. Repeat step 7 to create another vertical line from (0.50, 8.25) to (0.50, 0.25). 10. Repeat step 7 to create another vertical line from (10.75, 8.25) to (10.75, 0.25).

11. Create title box with 3 columns and 2 rows: Table  Insert  Table. 12. From the Menu Manager window, select Ascending  leftward  By Num Chars  Abs Coords, type as x-coordinate and 0.25 as y-coordinate (the position of lower right corner of the table). 13. On the screen, a row of numerical numbers appears, select 15 (10 characters + 5 characters) as the width of the column  repeat it twice for creating 3 columns  Done.

14. Select 3(3 characters) as the height of the row. 15. Repeat it one more time so that we have two rows  Done or press the middle button of mouse.

16. To enter text at a given cell, for example, to enter Due Date at the left-upper cell, double click the cell and a window of Note Properties appears. 17. Type Due Date type &todays_date. To justify its position, click the box of Text Style. In the pop up window, select Center for the horizontal and Middle for the vertical.  OK. 18. The symbol & tracks the name of the parameter used in the design process. As a result, when the format file is being used, the actual date will appear in the title box. 19. Fill other cells as shown below.

20. At this stage, we have completed the creation of a format.

Part II Creating a drawing using the created format 1. Open the drawing Plate_Pattern1.prt.

2. New  Type: Drawing  Name: Plate_Pattern1  OK.

3. Default Model: Plate_Pattern1.Prt  select: Empty with format  Format: MY-FORMAT 1  OK

4. Click create a general view icon, and click a point in the drawing window. 5. Select TOP view option  OK.

6. Right click the view  select: Insert projection view. We get the right view.

7. Use same step as in 6 to create the bottom view and default view.

8. Select View  Display settings  Model Display…  Display Style: Hidden Line  OK. 9. Click Repaint icon (Ctrl+R).

10. Add dimensions as required. We get the final drawing.

Homework: Create the pulley-pattern.prt drawing using your format.