I am trying to gather some best practices documents to distribute in my company. The main reason for this is that we have many designers who are, quite frankly, terrible at using Pro/E. This is primarily due to a company culture where the older designers who are bad at using Pro/E teach new designers how to be bad at using Pro/E. This cycle continues over an over until you have terrible models/drawings with problems such as:
1. Sketches with no strong dimension or constraints. One wrong move and you blow up the whole sketch.
2. Plates with holes that are created using a revolve rather than the hole tool or an extruded cut.
3. Sheet metal parts that are modeled as a solid, shelled, and roundeded (never converted to an actual sheet metal part).
4. Layers that are an absolute disaster. In many cases designers will hide features/datums instead of putting them on the proper layer and hiding the layer.
5. No concept of simplified reps. They try to do pretty much everything in the Master Rep and can't understand why it takes half an hour to load a model.
6. Hydraulic hoses and tubes that are created without Pro/Piping which means that useful information can not be extracted from the models.
I have been asked to help remedy this by providing tutorials showing what is accepted as the best practice for several of these issues. The problem is that I have very limited time to work on this so I would like to gather as many as I can from internet sources. If anyone can provide links to best practices documents or send them to me directly, I would be very grateful.