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bridgel1-Visitor
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April 2, 2014
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Can you save views?

  • April 2, 2014
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I was wondering if you can save the current view in Creo Parametric. For instance. I would like one view where everything is unhidden, and another view where I have a bunch of stuff hidden. I am also using sheet metal. I have a bunch of parts in the assembly that are sheetmetal and a bunch that are not. It would be great if it would also store the state of the bendings. So the one everything would be bent, while the other everything would be flattened out with stuff hidden. That would be ideal. It takes awhile to click each one and unbend it.


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Best answer by JamesBurcham

Create the flat as a family table instance of the bent part. Then all you ever have to edit is the bent part (generic) and the flat should update automatically.

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JamesBurcham1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 2, 2014

Have you tried using simplified reps? Should should be able to create a simplified rep for each view type you want. As far as having one view showing flat states and another showing formed. I would say you need to model in both the formed and flat state as seperate parts and then create a simplified rep for each.

Here is a PTC link for simplifed reps

https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS44198&posno=2&q=simplified reps&nav=ptcproductgroups||creo||Product+Group||creo

There are also several tutorials on youtube that you can reference.

bridgel1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 3, 2014

The assembly is comprised of other assemblies. In these, I have some of the parts grouped. This doesn't seem to be working with groups. They will never show. Am I doing something wrong?

JamesBurcham1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 3, 2014

In the rep creation window you should be able to expand the subassemblies and groups to select the individual parts. Without being there to see what you are doing its difficult to say what the problem might be.

bridgel1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 3, 2014

I am getting this message when I load the design:

"All the objects which were not displayed have been erased."

Any idea what that is about. I think this is why my parts are not showing up.

JamesBurcham1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 3, 2014

The only time I have ever seen anything like that is when I select the "earse not displayed" button.

Not sure I can help with that one.

bridgel1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 3, 2014

I have no idea what happened there, but I had fortunately made a backup copy of the design so I restored to that and it is fine now. I got the simple rep to work to allow me to switch between showing or hiding parts. Now if I could get the bending/unbending to work that would be great. I do not want to have two sets of parts because then I have the chance of them getting out of sync with each other. If anyone knows of a way to store the bent state as well that would be fantastic. My current design has 9 different sheetmetal parts in the assembly. Selecting each one and unbending it is a pain.

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