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Drawing Overlays

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Does anyone have any experience/comments on using drawing overlays in a WC system to combine large drawings (>100 pgs)?



Corey L. Jones
Design Engineering Systems Specialist
Principal Engineering Technology Development Group

ESC - Team QNA
SGT Inc.

Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899




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cljones71-VisitorAuthor
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May 28, 2014
From Creo Parametric Help

About Using Drawing Overlays
Using overlays, you can superimpose selected views or an entire sheet of one drawing over the current drawing sheet. This functionality is available for drawings, layouts, reports, and diagrams; each can reference objects of these four types, as well as formats.
When working with overlays, remember the following points:

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Overlays are read-only in the current drawing.



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The system updates overlays to changes in the source drawing.



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Overlaid views appear with all detail items.



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You cannot select overlays for any drawing procedure.



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If the size of the current drawing is different from the size of the source drawing, the overlays brought into the current drawing maintain the same screen size (that is, they occupy the same portion of the graphics window) as they had in the source drawing.




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Corey L. Jones
Design Engineering Systems Specialist
Principal Engineering Technology Development Group

ESC - Team QNA
SGT Inc.

Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899



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jschmehl1-Visitor
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May 29, 2014
This would be a great tool if you could "overlay" revisions in Windchill...or can you?


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BrianToussaint19-Tanzanite
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May 29, 2014
If you have the MCAD upgrade for CREO View for Windchill, then you have the ability to compare drawings and models.

Brian Toussaint
Systems Administrator

Hoshizaki America, Inc.
"A Superior Degree Of Reliability"
618 Hwy. 74 S., Peachtree City, GA 30269
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jschmehl1-Visitor
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May 29, 2014
Can you expand on how to do this? I have MCAD but when I use "Compare to" my fly out is empty. Thanks!


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MadhaviRamesh1-Visitor
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May 29, 2014

When you select Drawing #1 in the Viewables navigator, do you see the option to "Compare With"?



Madhavi


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BrianToussaint19-Tanzanite
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May 29, 2014
I select both using <ctrl> and then right click.
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Brian Toussaint
Systems Administrator

Hoshizaki America, Inc.
"A Superior Degree Of Reliability"
618 Hwy. 74 S., Peachtree City, GA 30269
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MikeLockwood22-Sapphire I
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May 29, 2014
It's takes a bit to dig out of the documentation how to use, but Drawing Overlay is one of the absolutely essential tools in the system.
We require all checks to be done using it - have done so far 12 years now, going back to Intralink 3.x and separate Division ProductView.

Important - Only available if you publish to PLT still I think, not if you publish to PDF. This was our overwhelming reason to use PLT instead of PDF some years back; not sure if still true but expect so.
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BrianToussaint19-Tanzanite
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May 29, 2014
Correct it doesn't do PDFs. That's on 10.1, doubt that it changes for 10.2.

Brian Toussaint
Systems Administrator

Hoshizaki America, Inc.
"A Superior Degree Of Reliability"
618 Hwy. 74 S., Peachtree City, GA 30269
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MadhaviRamesh1-Visitor
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May 29, 2014
No change in 10.2. PDF compare was in my backlog for support in a future
release (before I left PTC couple months ago).



Hopefully, PDF compare will be supported in the next release..



Thanks,

Madhavi


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cljones71-VisitorAuthor
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May 29, 2014
I am aware of the functionality of Creo View to compare 2d drawings (I am the TC Chair for Visualization). My design organization would like to create drawings by using the Creo Parametric function of "Overlay" . These drawings would be considered released engineering when completed, however I am concerned this may cause relationship/reference issues in WC. It looks like Creo Parametric overlay function has been utilized very sparsely.


Corey L. Jones
Design Engineering Systems Specialist
Principal Engineering Technology Development Group

ESC - Team QNA
SGT Inc.

Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899



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