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dellens1-Visitor
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July 9, 2012
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How do you set correct view naming?

  • July 9, 2012
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I imported an IGES framework of sketches from our other CAD system so I could have a skeleton for building this model from scratch in Creo.

As I was working through the model it was apparent that I made an orientation placement error as the named views did not match up with the part orientation I was building.

When I completed the model I discovered that my model was in the intended XYZ orientation, only the view naming did not make sense.

I am not sure why what I would consider the Top actually is the Front view. When I think of the top of anything I would automatically assume I was looking down at it from the Z direction.

I imagine the way this is set up in Creo makes sense to some type of product developement, but it is very misleading to us.

How can I permanently set my orientation up to have Z direction refer to top and bottom views, and front to a 90 degree rotation from this?

Thank you,

Paul


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dellens1-VisitorAuthor
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July 11, 2012

I think I stumbled onto part of my own answer. I renamed my views in the feature tree in the template file. Now when I bring up a new model the datum planes are named what appears to be their natural orientation.

Unfortunately; the named views do not match up to the renamed datums. This has me thinking that there must be a better way of having the datum planes named appropriately.

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dellens1-VisitorAuthor
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July 11, 2012

I now have changed the datum names as well as the view names to my liking. I just don't like the long and tedius process involved to get the model facing in conjunction with recognizable views. The CAD package we are replacing has the view orientation lined up with XYZ in a very logical sense. I would like to think that Creo would at least have a way of choosing between view orientation methods.

Is there no config file that gives you the alternate view orientations?

Just in case someone else needs to know how this can be changed this is what I did.

1) Open default template model

2) Change default datum names in feature tree

3) Go to desired view

4) Under the named views icon hit the reorient function

5) You then can either rename each view or dynamically modify each view orientation

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James621-Visitor
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July 11, 2012

Its not easy but you can create mapkeys for automatic creation of starting datums and default views based on CSYS as first feature and its axes orientation.

It gets pretty usefull if you've got part in your assembly placed under some strange angle or two angles and its origin is somewhere far away.

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