Enhancement Details

In WF4 we implemented the ability for the user to easily replace a manikin in a Pro/ENGINEER with any other manikins for the manikin population library. During this replacement, all existing snapshots (task constraints) were preserved an reapplied automatically on the new manikin. (Only the internal IK behavior were not preserved). In WF5 we implemented an enhancement where the replacement preserved also the current IK Behaviors of the manikin (Ex trunk Flexibility).

Starting in 2009, New sets of population will be available for users: - US Army Natick population - Korean population - Nasa Standard 300 population - More

Neutral data provides access to View Manager information in Pro/ENGINEER. The Visualization Object Adapter now extracts this information to write into the OL format for rendering in ProductView.

You can replace components contained in a Local Group or in a User-Defined Feature (UDF) Group.

3DModelSpace from within Pro/ENGINEER provides a direct link to manufacturers that offer 3D CAD models of their manufactured parts.

It is easier to place models in the main window. Improved autoprogression of constraints, expanded information, and new access points minimize the need to leave the model and access the dashboard.

Heterogeneous Design in Context (HDIC) helps provide companies with managed use of multi-CAD data in Pro/ENGINEER.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 introduces a new programming interface for Visual Basic.

With the new Remove feature, you can remove surface geometry from models for downstream uses like structural analysis or casting creation.

The Interface for ProductView now supports the import of ProductView data as exact representation geometry.

PTC introduces a new Interface for the JT module for Pro/ENGINEER.

In Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0, new Mathcad compatibility and other enhancements are provided.

Distributed Pro/BATCH has been extended to allow batch execution of custom Pro/TOOKLIT applications.

Several of the 2D import and export wizards have been enhanced.

Pro/ENGINEER Interface for AutoCAD includes upgraded support for AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD 2006 formats.

Several improvements to the Interface for PDF are introduced including support for generation of 3D PDF content.

Support for import and export of Unigraphics parts and assemblies has been upgraded for Unigraphics NX3 and NX4. (Support for Unigraphics NX has been discontinued.)

The Import DataDoctor (IDD) environment provides tools for repair or reuse of your imported data.

Simplified drawing representation of new tapered threads according to the ANSI, ISO, and JIS drawing standards is available.

Model edges more efficiently convert to multiple draft types such as Draft lines, Draft arcs, Draft splines, and Draft ellipses.

You can create parametric draft datums using the Vertex or On Entity options. The leader and elbow segments of a set datum tag are independently controlled and adjustable.

Objects maintain their active layer status as you navigate between open windows. When a layer is activated, layers with the same name are activated in any submodels.

You can quickly turn on and off the display of all 3D annotations.

You can drag a symbol or surface finish off a straight draft entity or straight model curve, and create extension lines.

You can set symmetric tolerances to appear superscripted from the nominal dimension value.

The detail setup option, dim_trail_zero_max_places, sets the number of decimal places when trailing zeroes are used to reach the number of decimal places set by configuration option default_dec_places.

You can create an offset note referencing datum points and axes in a drawing. You can create Hole table callouts that are either offset or on-axis, and remain offset during geometry modifications.

You can set the visible area of an unfolded view to Full view, Half view, Partial view, or Broken view. You can convert any broken view back to a full view.

The following layer commands are removed from the Visibility menu (View > Visibility) and relocated under Layer in the Layer tree: Isolate, Hidden Line, Copy Status From, and Drawing Dependent.

Crosshatches in drawings have greater flexibility. You can use the same workflow for controlling section attributes for 2D sketches and 2D sections. You can also control the visibility of entire sections, components, or component areas. You can hatch or fill flat surfaces. You can control hidden-line removal (HLR) for surface and 2D section crosshatches, and you can control default visibility of crosshatches for 2D and 3D sections.

Tag placement for set datums attached to Geometric Tolerances (GTOLs) is controlled by where you click on the GTOL to place the tag.

You can now create BOM balloons for Flexible components, Bulk items, Included items, and family table top-generic instances.

In drawings, the drawing setup option gtol_lead_trail_zeroes controls leading and trailing zeros for geometric tolerances (GTOLs). This setting for GTOLS is independent of what is set for dimensions using the drawing setup option lead_trail_zeros.

You can control the placement of a drawing view name by using the drawing setup option default_view_label_placement.

When creating or redefining a Combined State, click the include layer status checkbox to capture the visibility status of all current layers.

The definition of planar space, text direction, and viewing angle of a 3D annotation are captured in a single definition of the active annotation orientation. This definition establishes the orientation for any newly created annotations.

You can copy a parameter definition and paste it into another model or context.

You can reorient driven dimensions that have been created using two points, without redefining.

A new configuration option sets the default placement type for surface finish annotations within the Surface Finish dialog box

AVI is now an available format for capturing an analysis playback.

The parameter and relations user interfaces are now in Mechanism Design.

Damper objects are now Pro/ENGINEER features.

Spring objects of Mechanism Design are now Pro/ENGINEER features.

The position of annotations in 2D drawing views is associated to the position of the annotations in the 3D model.

For any created 3D Annotation, the Active Orientation Annotation dialog box helps you to define the planar space, text direction, and viewing angle. You can also set the orientation by datum plane, flat surface, or named view.

You can place annotations on an annotation plane that remains flat to the screen even during model rotation.

You can alter witness lines and arrow options for 3D dimensions.

You can create ordinate dimension sets as 3D annotations.

When creating driven 3D dimensions, you can use both surface references and traditional edge references.

You can create annotation elements more efficiently, gain better control over references, and easily change the active annotation orientation.

The driving dimensions of your model can appear as 3D annotations.

You can create a surface profile geometric tolerance (GTOL) in accordance with the Y14.41 standard. This enables an unequal disposition of the tolerance zone.

In Drawing mode you can reference the silhouette edges that are created by nonanalytic surfaces.

When text is added to basic dimensions such as a prefix or suffix, the content appears outside of the basic dimension box.

You can attach draft set datum tags to model arcs, model circles, draft arcs, and draft circles.

When mirroring draft entities in a drawing, you can select any straight entity as the mirror plane. Previously, you could use straight draft lines and straight construction lines.

The Pattern tool is more consistent with other dashboard tools.

The Pro/ENGINEER Help Center has been improved in content, navigation, and search mechanism.

You can create tapered cosmetic threads.

You can use the syntax =( ) to force Pro/ENGINEER to calculate the precise value of the expression without the need for a relation.

You can delete individual references from the Reference Viewer when there is a failure or when you decide against using the reference.

It takes less time to restore the features in a model after canceling a feature redefinition.

Previewing of User-Defined Features (UDFs) is enhanced. Hidden status is maintained in the target object.

You can create composite curves using Copy and Paste after pausing the dashboard.

Mapkey recording for relations and selection filters is improved.

The new Auto Round Feature creates Round features automatically in your model. These Round features are referred to as Auto-Round Members (ARMs).

You can create intent objects using a query that searches by intent name.

You can use Intent Objects in more areas and there are more types of intent objects.

You can create more robust geometry using the Shell feature.

Drag-and-drop operations in the Model Tree are improved.

You can replace a UDF with a Family Table instance and preserve the common IDs of those objects included in the UDFs. This ability results in successful feature regeneration downstream.

When placing features that require reference handles, such as Holes or Datum Axes, the offset reference handles are different than the handles you use for resizing and reorienting.

It is easier to select one-by-one chains.

You can create Draft features on open surfaces

When a part is activated in an assembly, you can see the entire part name in the Graphics window.

You can activate a layer in a 3D model so that all newly created objects are automatically placed in that layer.

You can save a model in a clipped state.

You can create zones by defining offsets from a coordinate system.

Use ModelCHECK or the Search tool to collect Annotation Elements with missing references.

There are enhancements to restricted parameter definitions.

In the Parameters dialog box, you can move rows up and down to help organize parameters for an object.

You can use the Merge feature to merge more than two quilts.

Navigation and Retrieval in the File Open dialog box is easier.

You can add a normal to plane constraint on a Swept Blend.

The Photolux System Library includes new scene files and improved materials.

Any aspect of a room can be snapped to the model.

Skylight lighting has been added to Pro/ENGINEER.

You can render models using only a HDRI (High Dynamic Range Image) as a light source.

You can set the color temperature of a light source.

Seven illuminance units have been added to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire to affect the intensity of light.

You can dynamically position and orient textures on a model.

You can trim facets by a datum plane.

You can select all connected facets in one command.

You can return to the Point Phase from the Wrap Phase in Facet modeling.

The displaying and filtering of points while you manipulate a large point cloud has improved.

You can offset and thicken facet models.

The definition and display of holes for filling in facet models is much improved.

You can create a symmetry plane on the facet geometry.

With the Delete Outliers command inside Facet Modeling, you can preview and then delete outliers.

Non-toolkit based, external analysis is now available.

Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica now installs as a component of Pro/ENGINEER.

Faster, more accurate modeling of compressed assemblies is possible.

Enhancements to the model tolerance report make it easier to understand where problems are introduced.

You can view coordinates for the position of the dynamic query.

In integrated mode, you can exclude elements in areas of singularities using the Isolate for Exclusion type in the AutoGEM Control dialog box.

Greater control over customizing the results legend significantly improves your ability to format your results to match your own specifications and needs.

A pressure load field can be imported through an external .fnf (FEM neutral file) file.

AVI format is now available for the export of movies.

Shells that are not compressed to the midsurface are exported with an offset to NASTRAN.

Dialog boxes for Bearing Loads, Heat Loads, and Convection Coefficients have been improved.

Curvature-based, AutoGEM mesh controls improve meshing for simple models.

You can control the maximum size of elements for mesh created by the AutoGEM mesh generator in particular areas of a model.

Component-Component has been added as a reference type for creating interfaces.

Interfaces are created through a common dialog box.

You can select a default interface type between components in an assembly.

You can preview interface types between components in an assembly.

A Diagnostics tool helps in identifying issues with models.

Dynamic query is available with capping and cutting surfaces.

A Thermal Resistance user interface is available.

You can create a customizable step for a 3-axis trajectory mill in the Process Manager.

You can customizable header names in the Process Table for manufacturing.

Colors are assigned automatically to Split and Slider surfaces during component extraction.

Pro/CMM supports a scanning probe and measured points.

Pro/CMM and Pro/NC use a common user model.

You can create theoretical (nonmeasured) elements in Pro/CMM.

You can now create BOMs of your External Simplified Representations in Windchill.

New options are available while redefining features disconnected from their external references.

VERICUT Version 6.0 has been integrated into Pro/ENGINEER.

G-POST version 6.1 has been integrated into Pro/ENGINEER.

You can degouge the tool holder during the computation of the tool path.

In the Process Manager, you can directly create the roughing, reroughing, and finishing tool paths.

You can automatically remove the remaining material in corners and valleys with the Corner Finishing tool path.

You can generate output of NURBS Interpolation for cutting motions.

You can control the quality of surface finishes with parameters MAX_SEGMENT_LENGTH and POINT_DISTRIBUTION.

Automated collision checking and machine kinematics for NC and CMM tool path simulation is now available.

The redesign of the Parameter Setup dialog box for NC and CMM simplifies the definition of tool paths.

A Manufacturing Components toolbar simplifies the definition of manufacturing models

You can automatically create a manufacturing workpiece based on the reference model envelope.

You can define a Turn Profile using a dashboard.

You can automatically create diameter dimensions in Sketcher.

You can replace invalid and missing references for sketches in Sketcher.

Intent objects are supported as sketcher references.

Sketcher diagnostic tools are added to help you understand issues in your sketch real-time.

Undo and Redo commands are available for view orientation states in Sketcher.

You can assign a line style and color to sketched entities

User-defined dimensions in Sketcher can be automatically locked.

Absolute accuracy is the default for all new sheetmetal parts.

Annotation planes are supported for bend notes.

You can store user-defined wall sections for reuse on other parts.

The thickness of sheetmetal parts is controlled by a new part-level parameter.

Sheet Metal mode includes an Add to Part Edge option for locating walls.

ModelCHECK edits parameters only when necessary.

ModelCHECK now includes a ModelUPDATE mode.

You can preview a simplified representation before you open it.

In Assembly Process Planning, also referred to as Pro/PROCESS for Assemblies, you can start the process planning sequence with a fully assembled design model.

You can assemble components and create features in an External Simplified Representation (ESR) and create simplified representations of an external simplified representation.

Activating a model within an assembly dims all inactive models.

You can control component-level layers at the assembly level without changing the display status of the submodels. You do not have to save the submodels to save the display status at the assembly level.

You can flip the orientation of insert and axis alignment constraints and of an entire (motion) connection.

You can create Simplified Representations of Assembly Family Tables instances in the same way that you create a simplified representation of an assembly. The simplified representation can now be created in the actual instance.

On Demand command is now active when a Simplified Representation is active.

You can now break certain dependencies using the Reference Viewer.

The Reference Viewer has a new consolidated user interface with expanded functionality.

Shrinkwrap features regenerate faster and remain associated with the Simplified Representation or Family Table instance in which they were created or redefined. Surface selection is simplified.

There is a new transparent display style for components.

Once a model is replaced the pairing information can be externalized into a Interchange assembly.

You can replace a component with an unrelated part or subassembly. Pro/ENGINEER provides the tools to map the references required from both objects to ensure that there is no feature failure due to missing references.

You can create zones by defining offsets from a coordinate system.

You can insert welds on cuts and fitting ports, and you can export the weld information to a *.pcf file

You can fix cable locations that fail regeneration due to lost references.

There are new tools to identify noncontinuous networks and to automatically merge overlapping location network breaks. These tools improve the success of autorouting.

Cable shields are automatically routed.

You can incrementally update printed circuit board (PCB) outline and component information. By cross-highlighting objects with reference designs between Pro/ENGINEER and InterComm Expert, live MCAD/ECAD collaboration sessions are possible.

You can use external representation with Piping design

You can use external representation with Cabling design.

The performance when importing boards containing a large number of holes is improved.

The active routing environment appears in the graphics window.

You can rename, color, and place subharnesses on a layer.

You can route ribbon cables.

Retrieving assemblies that contain Family Table instances is now faster. This is due to improvements in Instance accelerator files and in the retrieval of nested Family Table instances and instance dependencies.

A lightweight representation for thick pipes improves design performance

Enhancements to the Hole tool include tapered holes and threads, simple holes with counterbores, countersinks and point angles, and format control for hole types.

You can delete or suppress an individual feature embedded within a group without ungrouping the group first.