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November 6, 2014
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Experienced with Creo Parametric, new to Schematics

  • November 6, 2014
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Hi all. I have finally gotten my reseller to get me a trial of Creo Schematics. I am a one man operation and need to make mechanical designs as well as schematics on occasion. I THOUGHT that having years of Creo / ProE experience, I would find my way around Schematics quite easily and things would be intuitive. BOY WAS I WRONG!

The "tutorials" that PTC offers are pretty much useless. I cant even figure out how to set my working directory let alone figure out how to start a schematic. I also figured that my current drawing formats from parametric could be easily imported in for use in Schematics.... Again not as obvious as I would expect. I am looking for some guidance here as I have only 28 days left to make my decision. I am very close to abandoning PTC all together and moving to Autodesk Inventor. I was able to download and install a trial of Inventor in about an hour and within 15 minutes had an acceptable looking schematic. I have now wasted 2 days with Creo and I am getting nowhere.

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JimBarrettSmith5-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
November 7, 2014

Chris

Have you gone through the tutorial on the Creo Schematics Get Started Tab?

If you have then I am concerned that you are still struggling with the basics as:

On Page 8 there are instructions on how to create a new design

On Page 9 there are instructions on how to instance symbols from the library

On Page 10 there are instructions on how to connect the symbols with wires

On Page 12 there are instructions on how to connect the symbols with cables

On Page 15 there are instructions on how to create a report

On Page 23 there are instructions on how to use the design to create a harness in cabling design

On Page 29 there are instructions on how to configure your working directories

On Page 35 there are instructions on how to import template / formats

On Page 41 there are instructions on how to create your own symbols

Please confirm whether you have gone through the tutorial and if you are still struggling then please explain what you are trying to do

thanks, Jim

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ptc-43261081-VisitorAuthor
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November 10, 2014

Jim,

Thank you for your reply. I have gone through the tutorial. The tutorial is not very helpful to understand PTC's thinking on how work is supposed to flow in the program. Schematics seems so much different from Creo Parametric that I am having much difficulty with simple tasks.

In Parametric, one of the first things you do to start a new design is to select a working directory. This is important for me as I can organize my files on a customer by customer basis. Schematics wants to throw all of the "projects" into the same base directory, unless I am missing something here....

So far, PTC is losing the battle against Autodesk.... I have spent hours now with schematics and still feel less confident with it than I did after 15 minutes in Inventor's schematics module.

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Gaby_K12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
November 11, 2014

Hi Chris,

Creo Schematics has different approach then Creo Parametric; In Creo Parametric you set Working directory and assume that all the files you need are located on this directory, in Creo Schematics you can define for each type of file where will be the default folder for it, for example you can define that your design templates will be located on 'D:\Creo Schematics\templates', designs will be saved by default on 'D:\Customers Data' and reports formats will be 'D:\Reports'.

Assuming you are using Creo Schematics 3.0, in order to set default directories click on File application menu->Options->Directories

In order to manage/organize you designs on customer by customer basis- you can simply change the default Saving design location -> any new created design will use this location.

In addition to above there is new functionality in Creo Schematics 3.0 that allow to save a copy of your design to any location you like.

Regards,

Gaby

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