1 ME-430 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN CREATING CUSTOMIZED DRAWING TEMPLATE Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 Dr. Herli Surjanhata The easiest ways to create a drawing format is to use an existing format provided by Pro/ENGINEER. Save the format in your directory under a different name, and modify it as required. This technique will keep the sheet in ANSI/ASME standard size and format with its standard title block. The parameters can be added to the drawing template so that the appropriate information can be displayed where appropriate. Before you begin creating a new template, set to your working directory where you want to store the template files. File -> Set Working Directory… Click on to create a new directory. Note that you might need to navigate the your directory structure 2 Enter the name of directory e.g. DrawingTemplates. OK. Click on To accept specified working directory. File -> Open Or click on . The File Open dialog box appears. 3 Click on Select System Formats. 4 Select c.frm – a “C” size format. Click Open. You can create any number of personal format using this method, e.g. b.frm or a.frm. The c.frm template is opened as shown below. Save the c.frm under different name such as njit_c_format.frm. 5 File -> Save a Copy… Enter the New Name e.g. njit_c_format. Click OK. 6 File -> Erase -> Current Click on Yes. Open the newly save template file. Click on . The File Open dialog box appears. 7 Select the template njit_c_format.frm. Click Open. Click to zoom in the title block area – see figure below. 8 For every drawing, the title block is filled with standard data or data unique to the design. There are two types of text in Pro/ENGINEER: 1. Parameter text that will automatically reflect the design when the format is added to a drawing in DRAWING MODE. Note that there are two different types of parameters that can be used in a format: Pro/ENGINEER parameters (e.g. &model_name, &scale etc) and user-defined parameters (e.g. material etc.) 2. Plain text which does not change when the format is added. Example of plain text is company name etc. Add the plain text to the title block. Click on Create a note icon , or select Insert -> Node. Select Make Note. 9 Pick the location for the text as shown in the figure. Enter the text: NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Press Enter. Press Enter again to finish the text. Click on again, and repeat the same procedure to create the following texts – see figure below. Change the font type. Select ALL texts by clicking left mouse button, then right-click mouse button and select Text Style. Pick this LOCATION for the text 10 From Font drop list, select Blueprint MT. Uncheck the Default box, and change the text Height to 0.125. [...]... font and text height for DRAWING SCALE to Blueprint MT and 0.1 in The last thing to be entered is sheet number as shown below, To save the drawing template, select 15 Click OK To use the newly created drawing template, File -> Erase -> Current 16 Yes to confirm Start a new drawing, Click Create a new object icon Type the desired drawing name e.g test Uncheck Use default template 17 Select radio button... radio button Empty with format Under Format, click Navigate to the directory where the customized drawing template is saved 18 Select njit_c_format.frm Open 19 Note that the entries in the title block will be added automatically when the model part is added in the drawing ASSIGNMENT Create your B Size drawing template (customized) based on b.frm 20 ... texts, and the title block texts should be as shown below 12 Enter your name in the DRWN BY: box such as shown on the left Enter the drawing size C under SIZE box Next, we will enter the system parameters Pro/ENGINEER parameters include: &dwg_name &todays_date &scale &type (drawing model type) &format (format size) &linear_tol_0_0 through &linear_tol_0_000000 &angular_tol_0_0 through & angular_tol_0_000000 . COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN CREATING CUSTOMIZED DRAWING TEMPLATE Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 Dr. Herli Surjanhata The easiest ways to create a drawing format is to. be added to the drawing template so that the appropriate information can be displayed where appropriate. Before you begin creating a new template, set to