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pimm15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
July 13, 2015
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3D Annotation: What do you need to do to share annotations?

  • July 13, 2015
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We would like to be able to share 3D annotations plant wide for dimensional verification as well as callouts for CNC.

This is in a drive towards paperless.

On the CNC end we want to be able to transfer annotation hole callouts into the CAM software which is Power Mill.  This doesn't seem to come across when we make IGES or STEP models.

For inspection purposes we would like to communicate critical dimensions.  I have downloaded and tried the Creo View Express software.  This doesn't appear capable of viewing 3D model annotations.  In looking at the spec sheet I don't see where it says Creo View Express can't view 3D annotations.

What steps would we need to take to communicate 3D annotations to manufacturing and inspection?


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AndyHermanson14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
July 13, 2015

Someone can correct me if i am wrong, but you may need to export the files and STEP AP214 to get the annotations. There is an option there that asks you if you want to export Annotations. However, for them to be machine readable there might be an extra license needed for that. Not 100% on that one. Also, you need to setup your recipe file for your publishers to make the annotations in the Creo View files. There are also filters in Creo View settings that may need to be played with.

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pimm15-MoonstoneAuthor
15-Moonstone
July 14, 2015

Andy:

By changing the STEP options to AP214 I was able to get the export screen that you have shown.  It shows the Annotations export option.

Importing this into anything however doesn't seem to bring in the annotations.

It still doesn't appear that Creo View Express can read the Annotations.

Thanks for pointing out how the annotation option can be set.

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AndyHermanson14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
July 15, 2015

Did you edit the Creo View recipe file to create the annotations?

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ddietz-21-Visitor
1-Visitor
February 12, 2016

I used the following config.pro settings and was able to export a STEP file which, when imported back into Creo 3.0, had all combined states and proper annotations.  When the same STEP was read into Creo View 3.0, the combined states and annotations were not there.  Appears Creo View may not actually support AP214 annotations in STEP files.

step_appearance_layers_groups no

step_export_ap214_asm_def_mode single_file

step_export_dwg_views as_3d_views_assoc_draft

step_export_format ap214_is

step_out_asm_val_prop yes

step_out_material yes

step_out_suppl_geom yes

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