Assembly cut !?!!

[krow72]

I am on wildfire 4.0 m040 and I a can not get an assembly cut. When I am in assembly and go to the extrude command the remove material button is greyed out. How do you create an assembly cut in wildfire 4?

Krow72

 

[jeff4136]

Isn't it always greyed in assembly mode because it's the only solid operation possible?

 

[krow72]

I found that if you go into legacy mode you can create cuts in assembly. That is the only way that I found possible. Why do they keep changing things that work in older revs.

Jeff - when you use the extrude command in assembly it will only let you add material and not remove material which is what I needed to do.

Krow72

 

[kdem]

Can you post a picture of what you are describing or what you are doing to get that result? Here is a picture of the extrude feature in assembly showing removal of material.

 

[tobbo]

if you do a "extrude" in asm mode , and even if you cant use the "remove button", it will automatically be a cut . (just looked at WF5 and it

 

[krow72]

kdem - the extrude feature looks the same as your pic. The cut function is greyed out just like in your pic.

Tobbo - I am using wildfire 4 and when I use the extrude function it does not cut. It only adds material. Could be a bug.

Thanks for the replies.

Krow72

 

[dr_gallup]

Not using WF4 but in every previous release Pro/E would only let you remove material in assemblies. It prevents you from designing things that are impossible to make in the real world. If it is adding material in your release it is a bug for sure.

 

[jeff4136]

krow72 wrote:
"I am using wildfire 4 and when I use the extrude
function it does not cut. It only adds material."


That's a little hard to believe.
Are you certain you're not creating a Surface feature?
That the assembly is the Active model?
Post screen shots?

 

[krow72]

Jeff4136 - I went back to show you some screen dumps of what is happening and it did cut my assembly this time. I am not crazy as this happened to other people in my office. It is working now. (full moon must have passed

) Sometimes I just feel

by pro-e.

Krow72

 

[jeff4136]

Pro/E does "strange"

things sometimes. A Ctrl+A, Ctrl+G, restart or reboot may have been all it took to set the world right again.
Edited by: jeff4136

 

[design-engine]

use top down design instead of using an assembly cut.

 

[Magic_man]

I agree with design-engine. The company I work for does not allow assembly cuts except for a few special cases.

 

[krow72]

I also agree with disign-engine but in this case I needed to cut something out of a sub-assembly that is used in other assemblies where the cut was not needed. Thank you all for the responses.

Krow72

 

[jeff4136]

I model assembly operations as assembly features.


I'm not sure how 'top down' (and what top down technique(s) are we
talking about?) fits here.


Two structural shapes joined with a gusset plate. All three parts are
detailed. Design intent dictates fastener pilot holes be placed in
the gusset at detail level and mating parts be match drilled to finish
size on assembly. Without going some circuitous route how are we to
model and document / detail the parts?

 

[design-engine]

Especially if you want to show the cut in the assembly such as an example of mounting an electrical enclosure on every 5 seats of an airplane. You want to show the field drilling operation. The cut needs to exist in the assembly.

 

[jeff4136]

Don't let 'em wipe down the seats with Skydrol.

 

[design-engine]

due to all the hot flight attendants? I don't think so. That was in the sixties.