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AndyHermanson14-Alexandrite
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September 12, 2012
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Creo 2 Default color scheme.

  • September 12, 2012
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With the Creo suite of apps the default color scheme uses a white background. We are curious to see how many users keep this color scheme or change is to black or maybe even the old Wildfire scheme.

What are the reasons you keep/change this?

Andy Hermanson
Engineering Design Applications

tel 605.275.1040 x51114 mobile 605.310.8168
website www.daktronics.com

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ptc-19327451-Visitor
1-Visitor
September 18, 2012
Now, now. PTC existed and had colors long before the purchase of CV.
Besides there are days STILL where I would rather be back in the
drafting mode of CADDS4X than CREO1/2...



Maybe, just maybe, the numbers are a floating point decimal conversion
of what was originally a binary representation of a simple 8 bit color
value like 1-127. Welcome to the genius of Pro-E (?)





Christopher F. Gosnell



FPD Company

124 Hidden Valley Road

McMurray, PA 15317
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wattsteam1-Visitor
1-Visitor
September 18, 2012
Computervision's system did the job in its' day far better than many systems, although it sure was not perfect in lots of ways.

What they were really bad at was changing and improving the software to adapt to industry requirements, and they just did not listen to customers. PTC came along with a good, improved CAD system and ate their lunch. One great thing CV did was offered a package that could model a part and then generate decent NC files and good drawings of virtually anything, pretty well. PTC has never done this as a package, the NC was an expensive add-on that never worked well and still doesn't, and Mastercam and others have eaten that lunch now. The ease of making good drawings in PTC software has varied widely with different revs. PTC has never been good at listening to the customer about software functionality, either, just like CV weren't. They do seem better at it in the last few years though.

Jeff Dayman (CV user 1982-1993, PTC user 1993-now)
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iceblink11-Visitor
1-Visitor
September 18, 2012
Just one division by 100 and one multiplication by bit plane depth for
each colour at startup, i don't think much of your life is being wasted
(unless you have a reaaally slow PC) 😉

The plus side is this notation is bit plane depth independent, so you
can use your color preferences on one workstation, and it will show the
same colours on another. And I imagine this was probably an issue back
when Pro/E was mainly run on all the different Unix flavours as well as
ancient versions of Windows (NT 3.51 or maybe even older?) and 255 bits
colour depth was not a given.

I don't see much of a problem with it, except perhaps the readability
of it.
And if it ain't borken, please don't ask PTC to fix it!

Just my €0,02

Best regards,
Patrick Asselman

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iceblink11-Visitor
1-Visitor
September 18, 2012
Didn't Pro/E create some log file in the working directory that shows
the circle of references?
Named *.crc if i'm not mistaken...

Best regards,
Patrick Asselman

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