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Harry_potter10-Marble

3D Part & Assembly Design

Stop stokes when exporting as PDF

When saving a 2D drawing as PDF, how do we stop the stroke lines around symbols, etc? This is how it looks in Creo.When saved PDF, this is how it looks:

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Dale_Rosema23-Emerald III

PTCooler "OffTopic"

2026-05-08 Friday Humor (Networking....)

It is going to be a beautiful weekend in West Michigan, the final throws of Tulip Time.Did junk food and watched the Dutch Dancers last night.What’s your favorite carnival food? Why was the circuit finally happy?Because it was able to find a connect

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FB_144601376-Contributor

3D Part & Assembly Design

Select Components by Rigid Body # and Rename Rigid Bodies

Hello everyone,I am working with a Creo Mechanism assembly and I would like to better understand how to manage the rigid bodies automatically generated by Mechanism.In the Model Tree, I can display a column called “Rigid Body #”. The components have

fdeklerk5-Regular Member

3D Part & Assembly Design

Unknown glyph when erasing objects

I retrieve an assembly in session. Then I use the "erase current” option in Creo (12.4.3.0).After that, I see the list where one item has a glyph in front of it. Anyone know what this is/means?

VP_1444068911-Garnet

Fail to get the Datum Plane handle using ProModelItemInit or ProModelItemByNameInit

Hi, I am trying to get the datum plane handle (FRONT plane) use ProModelItemInit or ProModelItemByNameInit but it is failing.the reason is I want to use ProSelectionAllocCan some one please help me with it. Thank you.

KQ_145674103-Newcomer

Codebeamer

Set the default stream to other than "Initial stream"

I propose CodeBeamer to add a function to set the default stream.Every time I login in CodeBeamer, it stays in initial stream. And I have to switch to other stream every day.

GD_145786303-Newcomer

PTC Education Forum

installation license problem: invalid file or format

I’m trying to install Creo Parametric with a student license, but while the code I was given generates a Success, the installation tool doesn’t recognize the license created and gives the error “invalid file or format”. I checked the .dat file create

EP_144827883-Newcomer

Customization

.dtl Setting for the Length of Section View Reference Lines

I want the reference line for a section view to extend out of an orthogonal view less than it does here, by default. Is there a .dtl setting for that?

dweich13-Aquamarine

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RG_104437105-Regular Member

3D Part & Assembly Design

Cable Lay Pattern

Is there anyway to control or optimize the lay of the cables in a route? As you can see in the screenshot, the 8th cable in this route is in a suboptimal location and it’s driving the overall location diameter to be much larger in the model than it w

Harry_potter10-Marble

3D Part & Assembly Design

Stop stokes when exporting as PDF

When saving a 2D drawing as PDF, how do we stop the stroke lines around symbols, etc? This is how it looks in Creo.When saved PDF, this is how it looks:

131

46 minutes ago

Dale_Rosema23-Emerald III

PTCooler "OffTopic"

2026-05-08 Friday Humor (Networking....)

It is going to be a beautiful weekend in West Michigan, the final throws of Tulip Time.Did junk food and watched the Dutch Dancers last night.What’s your favorite carnival food? Why was the circuit finally happy?Because it was able to find a connect

171

57 minutes ago

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FB_144601376-Contributor

3D Part & Assembly Design

Select Components by Rigid Body # and Rename Rigid Bodies

Hello everyone,I am working with a Creo Mechanism assembly and I would like to better understand how to manage the rigid bodies automatically generated by Mechanism.In the Model Tree, I can display a column called “Rigid Body #”. The components have

fdeklerk5-Regular Member

3D Part & Assembly Design

Unknown glyph when erasing objects

I retrieve an assembly in session. Then I use the "erase current” option in Creo (12.4.3.0).After that, I see the list where one item has a glyph in front of it. Anyone know what this is/means?

Amirtharaj_K17-Peridot

Windchill

Muti Bom Report generation (CAD Structure)

Hi Guys,I am looking for a way to generate multiple individual BOM reports in a single run through Report Management. I have more than 100 object numbers, and each object has its own BOM structure.If anyone has a solution or knows how to achieve this

RK_145816455-Regular Member

Windchill

Organization creation issue in windchill 11.1

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 11.1 and Datecode with CPS F000-CPS01 Facing an issue during creating the organization in windchill 11.1 Here are the errors that I faced \accessrules\orgContainerRules.xml (The system cannot find the path spec

VP_1444068911-Garnet

Fail to get the Datum Plane handle using ProModelItemInit or ProModelItemByNameInit

Hi, I am trying to get the datum plane handle (FRONT plane) use ProModelItemInit or ProModelItemByNameInit but it is failing.the reason is I want to use ProSelectionAllocCan some one please help me with it. Thank you.

RJ_120929763-Newcomer

Windchill Customization

OOTB resource ConstraintDisplayNamesRB.java file not getting compiled

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 12.1 and Datecode with CPS 12.1.2.11 We are modifying the "ConstraintDisplayNamesRB.java" OOTB file. But the file is not getting compiled with below command. ant -f bin/tools.xml class -Dclass.includes=com/ptc/

KQ_145674103-Newcomer

Codebeamer

Set the default stream to other than "Initial stream"

I propose CodeBeamer to add a function to set the default stream.Every time I login in CodeBeamer, it stays in initial stream. And I have to switch to other stream every day.

GD_145786303-Newcomer

PTC Education Forum

installation license problem: invalid file or format

I’m trying to install Creo Parametric with a student license, but while the code I was given generates a Success, the installation tool doesn’t recognize the license created and gives the error “invalid file or format”. I checked the .dat file create

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