Using ProEngineer to Create 3 Dimensional Shapes

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Using Pro-Engineer to Create 3 Dimensional Shapes

• Kevin Manner
• Tim Reynolds
• Thuy Tran
• Vuong Nguyen

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Setting Up the Drawing Surface
Start Pro-Engineer and click on the, create a
new object, icon located in the upper left hand
corner of the tool bar.
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The New Menu will come up. For this application
click on part in the type column, click on solid
in the sub-type column, and put the name of the
part, for example cube, in the name area. Make
sure that the use the default template is
checked. The default template automatically sets
the units of the drawing to English units and
provides a more efficient Drawing Tool bar.

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Click OK. This will tell Pro-E to bring up the
Datum Planes. Datum Planes (front, top, and
bottom) are the 3-dimensional reference planes
that the drawing will be done on. The screen
should look like this.
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To the left of the datum plane screen will be the
model tree, which is not necessary for this
application. To turn it off click on the Model
tree on/off button located near the center of the
toolbar.
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Creating a 3-Dimensional Square (Cube)Click on
in the Menu Manager Box Feature/Create/Solid/Prot
rusion /Extrude /Solid/Done to start instructing
Pro-E on the type of part you are going to draw.
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Click on Both Sides/Done in the menu manager when
the protrusion text box comes up next. There are
certain attributes of your part that you the user
must tell Pro-E so that it can successfully
create the part. For our cube we need a both
sides extrusion.
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Click on Set Up New/Plane/Pick in the box then in
the blue datum screen left click on the datum
plane labeled (yellow square) FRONT when the
Select Sketch Plane Box comes up. Now we must
tell Pro-E which datum planes we are going to
draw on. This surface will be your primary datum
plane. Defining this as your main drawing plane
will come in handy when choosing the view you
want.
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Click on Setup/New/Top/Plane/Pick to define a
reference plane to which your 2 dimensional
drawing surface will be created.Move your mouse
into the blue drawing surface and click on the
datum plane (yellow square) labeled TOP. Pro-E
will automatically move to the black, 2
dimensional drawing surface shown below (Fig. 10)
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A References box will pop up (figure). This box
allows you to add other reference to your
2-Dimensional drawing plane. However this step
is not necessary, so Click on Close to remove it
from the desktop. This feature is most handy
when adding features, such as a cut or a
protrusion, to an existing part, in which you may
choose the edge of the part as a reference.
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Go to the tool bar to the right of the drawing
screen and select the create lines button to
begin the cube. This will bring up the line
cursor. Move the cursor to the vertical center
axis. It will automatically align to that axis.
You will know that the cursor is aligned when it
is circled in red
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Left click to start drawing the line segment. The
length of the line does not matter as you will be
able to dimension the cube later. Draw the line
out about half way then left click again. This
will be start of a new line. Draw the next line
down to the horizontal axis and left click again.
Draw two more lines in a similar fashion to
complete the square.
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Middle click to stop drawing when the square is
complete. Pro-E will automatically dimension the
lines that you have drawn. You can set any
dimension you like but for our purposes we will
set each side to 10. Go to the tool bar and
select modify the value of dimensions button
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Left click on the 203.37 value when the modify
values text box comes up. type in 10 and click
the green check. Modify the other value and your
square should look like the figure on the next
slide.
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Go to the tool bar and select the continue with
the current selection button . Left click on it
to bring up the menu manager. We will be doing a
blind protrusion so left click on blind
protrusion and left click
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Type 10 in the enter depth message text window
located in the upper left hand corner then left
click the accept value green check . Left click
on OK in the protrusion text box. The cube is now
complete and the screen should look like the
following slide if the procedure was followed
correctly.
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Finished Cube