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messenger1-Visitor
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January 17, 2013
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How to 'fly through' a model

  • January 17, 2013
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I am fairly new to PTC and Creo. I learned 3D modeling with Autodesk Inventor a couple of years ago and find myself running into situations where "I know how to do it in Inventor," but I'm not sure how to convince Creo to act the same way. One such instance is with Inventor's "Perspective View." It allows the user to not only change the field of view, but also 'fly through' the model. This 'fly through' functionality is what I'm REALLY missing in Creo. I want to be able to find, and reference, internal geometry with the click of one button again (without hiding, sectioning, activating, etc.). How can I do this in Creo?

 

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
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January 18, 2013

If you have the learning connector, you can have it search for Fly-Through and it has some good info.

I'm not sure it will do what you want, though.

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
January 18, 2013

I found the following here: http://www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/77175/en/WC_10_Practical_Guide_FIRST_ROBOTICS.pdf

Creo View lets you use the mouse and keyboard to easily navigate in the viewer. There are two navigation modes:

fly-through and inspection.

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Fly-through mode allows you to interactively fly around a 3D component to view that object from different depths and angles. You can think of this like moving your head, where a slide to the left moves the head to the left, with in the object in the view moving to the right. You use the middle mouse button (Alt + right mouse button for a two-button mouse) to fly.

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Inspection mode is like holding an object in your hand and viewing it from different angles. This mode is the default. You use the right mouse button to spin the viewed object.

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Van_Diemen1-Visitor
1-Visitor
July 27, 2017

Hello, this is a pretty old thread but I have a solution / work around.

Are you still interested in a live fly through option?

I have one.

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dcokin14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
July 27, 2017

If you've got a solution, I for one would love to hear it.  There are so many problems with perspective mode; if if you save just the view you want, the focal length actually changes if the model bounding box changes...  huh?  (They do have the capability of locking view angles though, because a view from a manikin's perspective does lock at a particular angle regardless of model size.)

 

I've submitted enhancement requests related to this a couple times in the past (first time, second time), but I don't think anyone at PTC actually reads these.  I targeted those towards Creo View, as I figured it would be easier to add some of the needed functionionality there versus Creo Parametric, but if was available with either tool I'd be happy...

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Van_Diemen1-Visitor
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August 1, 2017

Here is the mapkey we came up with -

 

mapkey ff @MAPKEY_LABELfly-thru;~ Command `ProCmdViewRefit` ;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Command `ProCmdViewPerspective` ;~ Update `persp` `EyeDistSpinBox`200 ;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Open `persp` `PerspTypeOMNew`;~ Close `persp` `PerspTypeOMNew`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Select `persp` `PerspTypeOMNew`1  `Default`;

 

It maps ff to Flythrough.

It brings up an eyeball in the centre of the screen.

Middle click on the eye to look around.

Middle click again to move forward. The longer you hold down, the faster you go.

Ctrl+middle click to slow down and stop.

It handles like a car with shot brakes.

Left and right mouse button corrects the view (roll or yaw).

It will take a while to master the movements.

To return to normal, click Manage Views or a Saved Orientation.

 

Ridiculous that we have to make our own 'Fly Through' mode for a 'high end' modeling package.

Hope this is of some help to you.

 

 

Matt Turfrey

 

 

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