What is purge Feature in pro/Engineer ?

Every time I hit save, a new file is created, thus I'll end up with many part1.prt files. How to fix this?


This is the way pro/e functions. If you are certain that you don't need to use the old files, you can purge them using File -> Delete -> Old Versions - it prompts for the file name (default the open file).

:-) You can also set up a map key that saves and purges at the same time.
That will keep your working dir clean. Depending on how you set the order you can have two or just one version saved.

These old file are like backup, Which will be created by pro/e when you are working in a part,
and when you save each time it will be saved as different file so you can have the same part at different stage.So if you wrongly saved a part at a wrong stage you can use old version file to open at last save stage.Which will be very useful when we are doing large parts and assemblies. 

Another way of doing purge is,

Windows->Open system window->Type purge and press enter(The directory mentioned will be your working directory)->Type exit and press enter 


Hope this one Helps !!!!!