Pro/E - Sketcher - Intend Manager

The Intent Manager enables you to dynamically dimension and constrain geometry as you sketch, which makes us to sketch very quickly. This auto recognizing tool is new option only available in proe wildfire versions. If you want to work in old menu manager environment switch off intend manager

(Sketch menu > unselect Intend Manager).

Intend manager creates weak dimensions and recognizes all possible constrains / Relations while you are drawing. To set the options for Intend manager auto-recognition of constrains go to Sketch > Options > Constraints. Select the constraints you want auto recognize. By default all constraints are being selected.

And then while sketching, you can temporarily switch off and lock constraints.

For example, draw one circle. One second, draw second circle. While, creating second circle, after specifying center point, move cursor away from center point to specify approximate size. Now, at some equal position proe highlights equal radius relation in red color (R1-for equal radius). Similarly, if you have line, when creating new line, at some equal distance, proe displays equal length (L1, L2... like this – for equal length relation). At that time, you can deactivate the relation creation just by clicking right button. Now specify second point for line, circle.

You can also lock the relations if you want keep them permanently by Shift + Right click, when proe highlighting relations in red color