3D Part & Assembly Design

I want to make a Bimetal Strip Temperature Displacement for my full mechanical project :mechanical solar tracker (dual-axis sun follower) brief description a purely mechanical solar tracker that uses clockwork and thermal expansion to keep a small solar panel or mirror sun-facing, without any electronics or sensors. working principle heating the bimetallic strip triggers a ratchet mechanism for hourly, incremental platform rotation. gravity then leverages a weighted escapement to fully reset the platform upon sunset.also any advice for my projectsThanks

I am using Creo Parametric Release 9.0 and Datecode9.0.8.0While running edit command, Creo window get freeze and can't change the numbers

Working on a decent sized harness with around 2 dozen connectors and have routed all of it in 3D with coord systems and networks. In the past with smaller harnesses I have been able to manually put in the number of pins in the components tab and then in the pins tab add in the entry port, regenerate the assembly, go back into the parameters and the PIN ID and Cable name have automatically been populated. (Not using Cero schematics anywhere all manually routed) Just as a quick test for this harness I picked a few connectors to make sure everything was working and followed the same process above and the pin ID came in but the cable name did not. My question would be why is the cable name not coming in? My first guess would be that i need to fill out the entry port column for every single connector ( with that then do I need to do that for every port or just one per connector?). My other guess would be I am missing a step somewhere in there and something is not connecting correc

Has this been tested with Creo? Thanks

I am using Creo Parametric Release 10.0 and Datecode10.0.7.0I have a user asking about defining a default simplified representation in a non-assembly model, is there a default simplified representation in non-assembly models? I have not been able to find default simplified representations in anything but assembly models.

Hello,I would like to have an assembly file which contains a box and many of a same part. Like a box full of bolts. Is there way to assemble those parts in not a particular manner but rather in a random way? An example picture is shared.Thank you. 

PTC says this can't be done, so I'm appealing to a higher authority. Put simply, I want to use repeat region relations to compare a parameter in each member to the number of the drawing. PTC Tech Support says there isn't any way to reference information about the drawing from within the repeat region, but that sounds like a terrible gap in functionality, is it really true?

Hello,I am a senior year student in university, aiming to implement my previous work experience using Creo Parametric/Schematics to generate electrical wire harnesses for our Formula SAE team. This way we will better know items and wire lengths needed to make our yearly wire harness for competition, both IC and EV. I personally love Creo and hope to help future members learn this program since it's seemingly necessary to work in some high level industries.With only a university free account, trying to prove that Creo is more than useful for our efforts my previous experience is somewhat mitigated for reference. I am hoping to maybe learn of some alternative means to generate the parametric intelligent wire generation. Also is colored cabling disabled for a free account? I've attached an image of my default parameterized spool below, adjusting the name to lowercase as per some support ticket entries I read prior but to no avail.  For one person on our team hoping to join a spe

Currently we have the following relation in our startpartMATERIAL = MATERIAL_PARAM("CONDITION")This arranges that the parameter MATERIAL is filled with value of the material parameter CONDITION. This parameter MATERIAL is shown in the BOM.As with Creo 7 there is the multi-body added. In this situation it is possible to use multiple materials in one part. When this is the case there is a parameter PTC_REPORTED_MATERIAL created which contains the name (I think it's also the condition name) of the used materials separated by a ",", see below.  I thought I update the relation in our startpart (template) but it is not possible to use the relationMATERIAL = PTC_REPORTED_MATERIAL It then shows the error "Invalid symbol ' PTC_REPORTED_MATERIAL ' found.". Somebody a solution?   

We would like to update our MultiCAD environment to a newer Creo version 11/12CS134024 shows that Creo 9 has compatibility to SolidWorks 2025 in Version 9.0.12.0.When does this support comes in Creo 10/11/12 ?We have a multiCAD environment and this holds us back to upgrade from 10 to 11/12.Regards,Marc

I am using Creo Parametric Release 4.0 and DatecodeM1301.목적 : 챔버 내부 볼륨확인.2. ASSY→슈랭크랩 변환. ( 내부 체적이 포함된 상태 슈랭크파일 1.prt 와 내부 체적이 포함 안된 슈랭크파일 2.part 를 생성해서 1.prt-2.prt를 하면 내부 체적이 나올 것입니다.3. 안되는 부분. 슈랭크파일 2.prt 가 생성이 잘 안됩니다.-> Assy의 일부 prt들이 SURFACE로 변환된 부분이 발생함. ( 불필요한 단품드르이 체적이 합산되어 버림 )-> 다른 원인이 있을 수 있을 수 있음.

What I would like to do is have the colours of wires represent the colour of the spool from which that wire is drawn. Now whilst I accept that the wire colour parameter is just a label that can be used in reports and is in no way linked to a colour in the rendering sense I would like to know if there is any way of assigning a visual colour to a spool.Alternatively.In WF3 I could colourise a harness by applying colours to individual wires but in CREO I can not find how to do this. The wires are created in a default colour and any attempt to colour a wire selects the whole harness. The 'new' process of selecting the object to which the action is to be applied before the action you wish to perform, does not work in this case. I select an individual wire then select the colour I wish to apply but the selection dialogue does not appear and I can't OK the process for the colour to be applied. If I can't colourise a spool how do I colourise an individual wire?

I am using Creo 11. I am trying to merge harnesses into one harness. Can this function only be used if the harnesses to be merged where from the same harness that was previously separated?

During startup, the application initializes successfully and the license is validated. However, we encounter the following error:!trail file version No. 2020!Creo TM 9.0 (c) 2025 by PTC Inc. All Rights Reserved.!Exit Logger data:! Process ID: 7012! Application: Creo_Parametric! Start date&time: 2025/10/23 09:39:45! language: usascii! machine type: x86e_win64! datecode: 9.0.9.0! Server: NONE! Workspace: NONE! traceback file: C:\User\z0192955\creo\systemcfg\1761183534\traceback.log!end Exit Logger data.< 0 1.194667 1728 0 0 1008 1920 0 0 1080 13!mem_use INCREASE Blocks 948438, AppSize 15602702, SysSize 36131336< 0 1.064000 1064 0 0 999 1920 0 0 1080 13< 0 1.067000 1067 0 0 999 1920 0 0 1080 13< 0 1.067000 1067 0 0 1002 1920 0 0 1080 13< 0 1.067000 1067 0 0 1005 1920 0 0 1080 13< 0 1.014000 1014 0 0 1005 1920 0 0 1080 13< 0 0.868741 1698 0 0 733 1920 0 0 1080 13< 0 0.868741 1663 0 0 733 1920 0 0 1080 13< 0 0.880593 1673 0 0 743 1920 0 0 1080 13!%CIWelcome to

  Goodmorning everyone, do I have to import a step created by a single assembly as a single part? How can I do? If I decide to open it as a "part" the file does not open correctly (missing parts and geometries).Thank you, Matteo.

I have derived a drawing from a Multibody skeleton in Creo Parametric. Now I want to display only one body. This works, but then I have the problem that the view frame is still very large even though I only see one part, and I want to adjust this.How can the drawing frame be reduced?

Creo 10 Pro/Toolkit developement. How to route multiple cables through a network? I tried following code to route all cables through the network point. But all cables are concentrating in one point as the attached picture shown. It is not what I want.  for (int j = 0; j < cablenum; j++){err2 = ProCablelocationrefAlloc(PRO_LOC_POINT, sel_array_route, PRO_B_TRUE, NULL, &cablelocationref);err3 = ProCableThruLocationRoute(cable_route_data_arr[j], cablelocationref, &p_location, &second_location);err = ProCablelocationrefFree(cablelocationref);} How to route the cable through the point like the right pic shown? I will be appreciated.

Hi all,I have created Sheetmetal tutorials for you. In this tutorials you can learn quickly and easily - How to use Sheetmetal features.Note: if you need to learn something more about Creo features - leave a commnet here Thanks.I will try to prepare some other and new examples for Basic and Advanced Creo modeling.Best Regards,Vladimir PalffyList of Sheetmetal tutorials:How to create Extrude featureHow to create Revolve featureHow to create Flat Wall featureHow to define custom Edge Treatment with Flat featureHow to create Flange Wall feature How to use Bend feature How to create CutsHow to create and use Rip, Corner Relief and Conversion featuresHow to use Extend featureHow to use Join feature How to create Blend feature - Rectangle to Circle How to Convert imported geometry to Flat State

Cone shape. 2" on one side 5" on the other, and about 24" apart. Helical cut with a pitch of 24. Surface or sheetmetal doesnt matter to me. The questions is can I flatten it?

I find I need to change the width of the model tree from time to time. After changing the width, Creo 's behavior is to regenerate the model and can take some time when I have a large model. It seem as though this is not necessary. Can this behavior be turned off?

This topic is related to this one but the moderator advised me to open a new topic so here it is. I know there are several examples (like the one in the linked topic above) and had one working in the past but we updated to Creo 11 and now this "open drawing with the name of the open part or asm" mapkey doesn't work anymore and can't get it to work. I'm aware of the case that the mapkeys are not embedded anymore in the config.pro. I have some mapkeys that are working or are working again so how the new mapkeys work I know.. So who has a working mapkey or can help me with this?

I'm putting a captive screw with compression spring in one of my assemblies. The coil spring doesn't have any 'cylindrical' features or surfaces. I made a central axis, but when I try to constrain the Spring Axis to the bolt cylinder surface, it places the axis coincident/tangent to the surface, not concentric. I always have the option to constrain Front & Right planes, but I would like to figure out how to get concentric mates with an axis.

Hello all, since there is no direct way of creating negative volume of a part (at least as far as I know-being relative rookie) I wonder if there is any, still relatively quick, way of doing that in Creo 10. With that I have in mind Ansys Space Claim 3D modeller where it is possible to close the model with planes and create volume inside of complex geometry and these defined planes. I would want a volume of water that fills inside of a turbine rotor.  Thank you for your comments, suggestions...Best regards!

I am using Creo Parametric Release 5.0 and Datecode5.0.0.0在一个零件中，如何将一条曲线的局部线段进行复制，并使生成一个复制曲线的端点与两个坐标点重合

According to the PTC documentation, this is supported. I am not able to get this to work in Creo 7, 9 , or 10. Is anyone able to confirm that loading a light file works for them? It is possible my light files are corrupted in some way, if someone has a sample light file they can post here, I will try it. I have included one of my .lgh files for reference.