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RaphMORIN16-Pearl
16-Pearl
April 21, 2017
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Creo 4.0 M010 - Ordinate dimensions

  • April 21, 2017
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Hi all,

A new behavior in Creo 4.0 I don't like. Now when using ordinate dimensioning, Creo places automatically the dimensions on the same side as the origin zero. More precisely, this happens when you want to add dimensions to a drawing. I don't understand this new behavior and gives me more job as I have sometimes to place the dimensions not on the same side of the zero. Do you know if there is a way to disable this and come back to the same behavior as in Creo 3 ? Thanks.

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    mender12-Amethyst
    12-Amethyst
    April 26, 2017

    Not to disable it, no.  It does work better for most cases, as you dimension with pick pick pick instead of pick place pick place pick place, and it aligns the dims.  But in this case, not as efficient.  If you have a single dimension to put on the other side, you can move the dim after placing (which we understand is more cumbersome).  If you have a bunch of such dimensions to make, consider the workflow

    Move the base line temporarily to the other side, Ord Dim, pick base line, pick 20 bits of geometry.  Then move the base line back.

    or

    Ord Dim, pick base line, pick 20 bits of geometry that you want to dimension on the other side, then look in the Drawing Tree and select the last 20 dims, and move them in one move operation.

    I will ask after the possibility of ending ord dim creation with the recently-created dimensions selected, which would allow the second workflow to skip the step of finding the dims and selecting them.  I'll also ask after the possibility of allowing a pick in open space when you've just made an ord dim and are possibly about to make another one, with the meaning of move the just-created dim to that point.  However, I cannot promise anything.

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    RaphMORIN16-PearlAuthor
    16-Pearl
    April 26, 2017

    With Creo 3.0, it was not pick place pick place... it was pick pick pick then place all the dims created.  So we could do one side of the part then the other side.The click gain with Creo 4 is null because we have to move the base line before creating ordinate dims on the other side of the part where before we just had to choose the side after creation.

    I had discovered in the time between my question and you answer that the dims are always placed on the same side as the base line so I started playing moving the base line.

    Creo 3 behavior was not really time consuming, now it is.

    I'm really open minded to change, but in this case I don't really get it.

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      RaphMORIN16-PearlAuthor
      16-Pearl
      May 10, 2017

      When we create ordinate dimensions, we haveto pick first the base line or an existing dimension. The improvement could be to place the new dimensions aligned on the same side as the first dimension or base line we picked. What do you think about this Matthew ?

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      mbrockman10-Marble
      10-Marble
      May 12, 2017

      I agree, sometimes you want this behavior but for my most work (99%) creo3 was better.  Might I suggest to PTC that when they arbitrarily change behaviors, enable a configuration option to enable previous workflows.  This will allow us old timers to evaluate OUR best workflows

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