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03 INTRODUCTION TO MODELLING SOFTWARE PRO-E

Introduction:
Pro-E is a high end cad package. Pro-E is a parametric solid model. It was developed by parametric technology
corporation. It is suite of programs that are used in design analysis and manufacturing of a virtually unlimited
range of products.
Feature based:
Pro-E is a feature based solid modeling tool. It builds the model using individual building blocks one at a time.
Designers can think at a high level and leave all the low level geometry details, for Pro-E to figure out.
Associative:
We can use Pro-E to document model by creating parts, assemblies and drawing all these functions are really
associative.
Parametric:
Parametric means that the physical shape of the part is driven by the values assigned to the attributes of its
features.
Solid modeling:
Solid modeling means that the computer model we create is able to contain all the information that a real solid
object would have the material.
Parent - child Relationship:
An important aspect to feature based modeling in Pro-E is the concept of modeling in pro-E parent - child
relationship.
Datum plane:
A datum plane representation of an infinite large power surface area of a user defined orientation and location
that are continuously adjusted automatically to be slightly larger than the object.
Plane-Insert-Datum-Plane:
Default method creates three mutually perpendicular datum planes intersecting at the origin at the default
coordinate system. These three planes represents XY, YZ & ZX planes are named as follows:
DTM1 → represents YZ plane
DTM2 → represents ZX plane
DTM3 → represents XY plane
Datum axis:
It can be used as a reference for features creation. It is particularly useful for making datum planes placing items
concentrically and creating radial patterns.
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