Questions: 1. What is the difference between object reference and geometric associativity? 2.

What are the file extensions given to sketches, parts, assemblies, drawings? 3. How should you create a new part or assembly? Why? 4. What is the use of config.pro file? 5. What is a trail file? 6. What is the meaning of "store back"? 7. What is the difference between File -> Erase and File -> Delete? 8. What is the difference between File -> Save and File -> Backup? 9. After performing a File, Save As, what is the current object? 10. If I use Window in Pro/Engineer and Close without saving my model, have I lost my work? Answers: 1. Object reference is a data management term that has to do with the way one object references another. Geometric associativity has to do with how a parts geometry can be changed from the part or drawing. 2. Sketches - .sec, Parts- .prt, Assemblies- .asm, Drawings- .drw 3. You should always create a new part or assembly using the copy from option in the new dialog box and copy a start part. This ensures the proper layer setup, saved views, datum planes, parameters, etc. 4. The config.pro file contains configuration options which control the behavior of Pro/ENGINEER. This file also contains user macros which are called map keys. 5. The trail file is a record of every menu pick and screen pick and keyboard input during an entire session of pro/engineer. This file can be retrieved and edited and replayed to retrieve work lost during an unexpected failure of a session. 6. 'Store back' refers to the behavior in which an object is stored back to the directory from where it was opened not necessarily the current working directory. 7. File erase removes the object from the ram of the computer and file delete removes the object from the disk or hard drive of the computer. 8. File save stores the object in the directory where it was opened from and file backup copies the object to the specified directory using the same name.

9. After performing a file save as command the current object is not a new object it is the old object. 10. No.

below the 3rd part of ten questions. Questions: 21. Name six common assumptions the sketcher will make. 22. What is the difference between One Side and Both Sides in extrusion? 23. How do you change dimensions of a feature? 24. What is the model tree? 25. Define "Parametric Feature Based Modeling" ? 26. What is datum planes created on the fly? 27. List five uses of datum planes. 28. List three uses of datum axes. 29. List two uses of a datum coordinate system. 30. Name a feature that can both add and remove material. 21. Six common assupmption the sketcher will make are as follows - Horizontal and vertical, equal length lines, equal radius or diameter, co-linearity, 90 and 180 degree arcs, points on the same horizontal or vertical, points on other entities, tangency, symmetry, parallel and perpendicular lines. 22. One-side extrudes only one specified direction from the sketching plane. Both sides extrudes both sides of the sketching planes. 23. Modify > pick the feature > pick the dimension > enter the new value > select regenerate. 24. The model tree is a graphical representation of the features and/or components in the model. 25. Parametric means driven by parameters. Feature based means you define a series of instructions (features) to tell the system your design intent. Modeling means creating computer images coupled with geometric information defining a part or assembly. 26. The datum plane created on the fly means it was created when you were in the middle of creating something else and it goes away after the thing you really wanted

was created. These are created using the 'make datum' command. 27. Five uses of datam plane are as follows - Sketching plane, reference plane, dimension and alignment references, geometric tolerancing, creating cross sections. 28. Three uses of datum axes are as follow - Dimension and alignment references, centerlines on drawings, geometric tolerancing, coaxial hole. 29. Datum coordinate systme is used While exporting to iges and stl. 30. Rounds and chamfers are the features which can both add or remove the material. Register and Login to read more articles related to Pro/Engineer & Unigraphics interview questions and answers. As well as showcase your expertise by participating in the Forumand Community.
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Questions: 51. What type of view should be the first view added to a drawing ? 52. Why should you use Display Mode on drawing views? 53. What is a show dimension? 54. If you erase a dimension, is it gone forever? 55. Why is it a good idea to start drawings early in the part design? 56. What is the best way to show dimensions? 57. How are the default number of decimal places and default tolerance values determined for parts and assemblies? 58. List four types of assembly constraints. 59. Why should you put assembly components on a layer? 60. How do you get a list of all the features in a model? 51. General, and you must orient it using save views from the model. 52. Because by default, drawing views get their hidden line removal from the environment. Each users environment may be different thus causing the drawing views to look different when another user opens the drawing. 53. A dimension from the model. 54. No. 55. Because its easier to show the dimensions from the model a few features at a time. Start the drawing early and have the drawing process be a parallel process with creating the part. In other words, create a couple features, go to the drawing, show the dimensions from the feature on the drawing, go back to the model, create a couple more features, show those dimensions on the drawing, etc. 56. Use preview and pick the features from the model tree. 57. They are built into the start part and start assembly. 58. Mate, align, insert, orient. 59. So you can see to add new components to the assembly. Layers do not care about parent/child relationships. 60. Use info > feature list. 71. What are the steps required to get just one components default datum planes displayed in an assembly?

72. Why the above mentioned steps should be carried out? 73. What does save status in the layer menu do? 74. What function in layers should you not use? 75. When copying a feature, what is the difference between dependent and independent in Pro/Engineer? 76. What is different about a feature that has a dependent copy? 77. How do you make a dependent copy feature independent from its original feature? 78. What is the pro_group_dir for in Pro/Engineer? 79. What should you do if creating features that are to be included in a user defined feature? 8071. Using layers, blank the layer containing the default datum planes, pick the plus sign next to that layer in the layer display dialog box and then pick the component that you want to see the planes in and then pick the show icon. 72. To be sure that when creating a feature, you are using the datum planes in that part so that you dont make unwanted external references (parent/child relationships). 73. Save status permanently sets the layer displays status of the model so that when the model is saved and opened again the layer display is still set that way. 74. It is normally recommended that beginners not use the isolate function in layer display. 75. Dependent means that the copy feature will change when the original feature is changed. Independent means that the new feature will not change when you change the original feature. 76. When redefining a feature that has a dependent copy, the alignment function in the sketcher is not available. 77. Use modify, make independent. 78. This configuration option is used to tell the system where you are keeping your udfs. 79. Limit the number of parents. If multiple features are to be included in the udf, they should share as many parents as possible to reduce the number of prompts required to place the udf into another part.

80. In Pro/Engineer the generic is the original model. The instances are created by the system based on the combination of the generic and the table.
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. In family tables, what is a generic and what is an instance? 1. Why should you name features in Pro/ENGINEER? 82. What is a cosmetic thread and why is it used? 83. How do you create an opposite hand (mirror image) part in Pro/E? 84. How do you get a bill of materials list of the components in an assembly? 85. How do you modify a mate offset dimension? 86. When do you use two equal signs in a relation? 87. When do you use one equal sign in a relation? 88. What does ceil 10.2 evaluate to? 89. What does floor 25.8 evaluate to? 90. When do part relations evaluate in Pro/Engineer? 1. In Pro/Engineer features added to family tables should be named so that when you are looking at the family table you can tell what feature is in the table. 82. A cosmetic thread is a special surface feature that is used to define threads in models. It is only a cosmetic feature and does not affect mass properties. On drawings these features display like you normally want them to for a threaded hole. 83. Create an assembly without datum planes. Assemble the part that you want to make a mirror of. Pick component, create, part, mirror. Enter a name for the new part, pick ok, and select a datum plane in the part for the mirror plane. 84. Use info bom. 85. Pick modify, pick the component, pick the dimension, enter a value, pick regenerate, automatic. 86. When testing for equality. 87. When setting equality (making one thing equal to another). 88. 11 89. 25

90. At the beginning of regeneration before any features are regenerated. 1. When do feature relation evaluate? 92. What is a constraint relation in Pro/Engineer? 93. Name four types of parameters ? 94. What is a logic statement? 95. Why should you comment relations? 96. What does sort relations do? 97. Can you add motion to a part in Pro/Engineer? 98. How do you add a model parameter in a drawing note? 99. What is the difference between " Move" and "Move Text" ? 100. Name the four types of tolerance formats available in Pro/Engineer? 101. Which of the tolerance formats should you not use? 102. What is a drawing symbol? 103. Can a drawing reference more than one assembly? 104. Can a Pro/Engineer drawing be opened in AutoCAD? 105. Can the units of a part be changed without changing the size of the part? 91. When the feature regenerates. 92. A constraint relation is used to put limits on parameters (usually dimensions) based design intent and/or manufacturing limitations. 93. Integer, real number, string, yes_no. 94. Logic statements are a series of relations that test parameter values and performs actions based on the results of the test. 95. You should comment relations so that other users can understand what you are trying to accomplish with the relations. 96. Sorts the relations in case of circular references within the relations. 97. Yes. 98. Use ampersand and then the parameter name (&material). 99. Move allows you to move the selected item anywhere. Move text allows you to move the selected item only parallel to the elbow. 100. Nominal (no tolerance shown), plus/minus, plus/minus symmetric, limits. 101. Plus/minus (because manufacturing people want the model at the mean size not the nominal size). 102. A symbol is a collection of draft entities that are stored together for reuse on other drawings. 103. Yes. 104. No. (Yes, but only after translation to dxf or iges or dwg). 105. Yes.