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HEEEELP! How to edit an .igs file on PTC Creo?

  • July 24, 2012
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Hello,

 

I am using PTC Creo Parametric 2.0 and I really need to edit an .igs file!

I can import it and open it but i cannot modify the geometry or like modify the original sketch...I am just able to move the parts.

 

What I need to do is to create another sketch over the geometry and the 3D I import, cause I need to draw and add another "piece" to it.

 

If anyone knows how to do it please reply!

 

Thanks in advance


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    Best answer by joates

    Thanks for all the feedback. This was my first ever post and I’ve had some helpful replied and support. All in all its been a good vent for some of my frustrations.. to be constructive on some of the irritations:

    - suggestions/feedback...? I could not find an official sections/feedback e-mail or reply page.

    - 2D control drawings dimensions: when it comes to dimensions it now takes 4 clicks plus mouse movements/hovering to move a dim around and into a non default position. rather than 2 and a bit of hovering.

    This may sound like a small thing to get pissed off about, but it made my time to complete my end of project tasks/work twice as long! And its not like it was not good before... Time is money and I don’t like spending it on what should be old rope.

    - Open system window > purge (working directory): Its very helpful to purge your working directories when you got big asms and many components. Stops your drive filling up quick. Only accessible through Creo 2.0 when NO files are open.

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    DavorGranic16-Pearl
    16-Pearl
    March 7, 2014

    I dont belive pre-concived notion is realy problem here. Its the way software helps you out during learning proces. ProE had kinda bad one. It should guide user and automate it as much as posible with options for advanced users. Most intuitive software i ever saw had simple aproach. Every command and function is grouped by what you want to do. So basicly they grouped evrything into create,modify,multiply,construct,selection itd. If you wanted to mirror something i bet 90% of you would figure out in which group ive mentioned to look. Creo is going in right direction but it needs maybe more grouping on basis of not what feature does but what it gets user done.

    Just making search tool to check what feature does and user wants to do and not just what is feature called would help new users.

    Creo simulate lite is prime example of automating and guiding user to end result.

    Maybe PTC slogan should have been "Knowledge is power, guard it well"

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      msvetlik1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      March 14, 2014

      I was introduced to Pro/E back in 05 when I was in school. Then something magical happened; Solidworks. Never did I ever want to go back to Pro/e, but now I find my self with Creo 2.0 and I'm sorry but this is not fun. No proper training, only what I have got off of utube and trial and error and a co-worker going through the same thing.

      Bottom line is ya not so much.

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      JouniAhola1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      March 14, 2014

      Hello,

      It is easy to hate something if you just can not use it. Here is some more information how to learn Creo:

      http://www.klaava.fi/node/2038

      www.gold-cam.fi

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      ptc-51630011-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      March 14, 2014

      Technically I don't hate Creo, I simply find too many areas that creates loss of productivity because something needs tweaked, or the interface requires research.

      P
      ptc-56821201-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      March 14, 2014

      It's an acquired taste!

      P
      ptc-8119791-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      May 16, 2014

      I find it better than Wildfire for designing and love Creo in general. Apparently it is more painful for drawing creation.

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      lcannon1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      August 5, 2014

      Here's why I hate it:

      1) Icons on Quick Access Toolbar are tiny and very difficult to see.

      2) You have to make a QAT for EACH mode of Creo - part, activated part in an assembly, activated subassembly, assembly.

      3) The Smart box has been moved to the bottom right. Everything else is up at the top. Why????

      4) Assembly mode no longer has Mate and Align. Creo now defaults to . . . whatever it darn well pleases. Sometimes it's normal, sometimes, it's distance, sometimes it's coincident.

      5) Every command is now buried in a tab - one extra click that I shouldn't have to do. I shouldn't have to create a Quick Access Toolbar.

      This is just a start.

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      ptc-51630011-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      August 6, 2014

      I agree Larry.

      #1 The icons in the quick access toolbar appear to be the same size in all the Windows compliant software I use.

      I wish you could truly customize them and make compounded commands to help reduce user input requirements.

      #3 The "smart box" corner needs to improve the activity status, it dissapears too often during these moments, the two arrows chasing each other is a weak approach.

      #4 What? You disslike the power of "Automatic" that presents you with unwanted assembly constraints?

      Gee, I thought I was doing something wrong by resetting to better constraints that work..

      #5 Inventor has a superior concept, the most used commands surround your cursor like a "lifejacket", and can be customized, you can dissable the "lifejacket" if you want to immitate Creo.

      This concept generates more efficiency eliminating excessive mousing around.

      I hate the additional mouse click requirements that adds to our carpal tunnel syndrome.

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      ptc-44551841-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      October 27, 2014

      So.. Thats it. Im freee.

      My head finally got enough.

      Just could not get Creo Working.

      The usual answer from the support.... "No no no, just because you think that should work, does not make it so. Not even, when that was the way i told you to do this yeasterday. I think you need some more education."

      This answer finaly made my head think that i was stupid.

      So not being able to create models, and therefore drawings. The fact that i just could not trust the mass figures and so on, comming from creo. Since the model tree would not update. There fore i had this knot in my stummach every time i had to delivere documentation.

      The short story.. I got stress( and fired).

      This is me 3 months after, still trying to get over it.

      Im NEWER going to open CREO again.

      Just thinking about it makes me sick.

      i just had a call from a guy. He said: "I heard you know Creo". I replied: "Yep, but not fo anything good".

      And since i would rather be unemployed than sick. im not going there to work.

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