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Greg_McMurray1-Visitor
1-Visitor
December 29, 2021
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Display shaded datum plane

I just installed Creo 8.0.2. I have  "Display shaded datum plane"  selected and the config.pro option  "3D_datum_display_fill"  set to yes, but my datums aren't shaded. Anyone have any idea what I'm missing?

 

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MartinHanakAnswer
24-Ruby III
December 30, 2021

Also, you can rename all config.pro files to hide them for Creo, start Creo and create new part to see datum plane display. If filled datum planes are displayed then your problem is caused by config.pro option.

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VladimirN24-Ruby IV
24-Ruby IV
December 29, 2021

 Hi,

 

Several solutions can be found in this thread - "When I disable the Plane Fill Display, the Datum doesn't refresh correctly": https://community.ptc.com/t5/3D-Part-Assembly-Design/When-I-disable-the-Plane-Fill-Display-the-Datum-doesn-t-refresh/td-p/740653 

 

P.S. From "Help Center" (configuration options associated with this functionality) - "Shaded 3D Datum Plane Display": https://support.ptc.com/help/creo/creo_pma/r8.0/usascii/index.html#page/whats_new_pma/ux-shaded_3d_datum_display.html

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Greg_McMurray1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
December 29, 2021

I'm aware of the bug regarding the datum planes only displaying the positive side color and not the negative when shading is turned off. There was an SPR filed for that.

 

But that's a different issue from mine. My problem is that I can't get the datums to shade at all. As you can see in the image, I have selected the datums to be shaded, as explained in Help Center, but they will not shade.

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
December 30, 2021

Hi,

please let us know what values are set for following config.pro options

3D_datum_display_fill
3D_datum_planes_transparency
spin_with_3d_datum_planes
enable_legacy_datum_planes

 

I guess that enable_legacy_datum_planes is set to yes.

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    Greg_McMurray1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    December 30, 2021

    For the record and in addition to Martin's excellent solution, the config.pro option that was preventing the datums from being shaded was enable_opengl_shader. I deleted it from the file, and now everything is running smoothly.

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    StephenW
    StephenW23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    December 30, 2021

    enable_opengl_shader is set to YES by default. Typically you would set it to NO if you had or have graphics card issue that prevented its use.

    I don't know that it matters but if you had graphics card issues, they could "reappear".

     

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      Greg_McMurray1-VisitorAuthor
      1-Visitor
      December 30, 2021

      Thanks, my graphics card is a 4095MB NVIDIA Quadro P5000. There are no issues with it.

      I'm switching back to Creo 7 until they work out all this nonsense.

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      Greg_McMurray1-VisitorAuthor
      1-Visitor
      December 30, 2021

      Now I see another problem. Some of the components in my assembly are completely hidden by the datum planes. When I hide the planes then I can see them. This occurs with the default empty config.pro file.

       

      I'm beginning to think shaded datum planes aren't quite ready for prime time yet.

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      KenFarley
      KenFarley21-Topaz II
      21-Topaz II
      January 5, 2022

      Is this a situation where no config.pro file means 0% transparency? Did you try to change the 3D_datum_planes_transparencypercent value to see if it behaves better?

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        mkajdan
        mkajdan14-Alexandrite
        14-Alexandrite
        January 6, 2022

        The default value for that option is 7 using the config.pro from the install with 0 being completely transparent.

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