3D Part & Assembly Design

I have followed the tutorial on this reference topic: https://community.ptc.com/t5/3D-Part-Assembly-Design/New-to-Creo-and-visual-cosmetic-threads/m-p/986492#M137459  and it worked fine. However when I close Creo and restart the mapkey it is not working anymore.   What did I do wrong?

No idea why CREO would create these COPY entries. Sometimes there are three of them for the same feature, and not necessarily in order of COPY 1 to 3.I would probably not even notice these until one of my chamfers refused to work properly on a very simple part (at the end of a cylinder).It would create the chamfer, it would show its profile in sketching, but in the end would not remove the material at all, just put some exterior rings for where the chamfer should have been. And no error was raised. Took me some time to figure out that the chamfer was applied to one of the COPY entries, even though I was clicking on the EXTRUDE feature itself.I had no idea what to do, so I deleted all the COPY entries and nothing was lost, it seemed that the part was really not affected by this -- and then the chamfer started working properly.Any ideas what these entries are and why are they created?Thank you!

I am looking for a way to create Unit Basis (Rate of Change) on a Flatness. I tried applying it in Annotate with a Composite frame, but it gives me a message stating that the "Per Unit Basis is not Compatible with the Specified Characteristic symbol." There doesn't seem to be a direct way to apply Unit Basis to Form.  I am also looking for a way to change the Tolerance Standard to ASME. It looks like ANSI and ISO are allowed out of the box. How would I add the ASME standard?  

I was working with exploded views that can be pulled from the subassemblies to the parent using the default explode. However the explode lines from the subassembly are not showing in the parent. Is that how its supposed to work or am I missing a setting that can bring the explode lines into the parent?

Hello, I have an issue here when exporting the flat state of Sheetmetal parts. DXF will be created from the drawing.We have checked off the splines option in the export menu.In most cases the splines (end points) in the exported DXF file are not connected. Our supplier needs to connect the end points by themselves.When I change splines to polylines, the end points are connected but the geometry contains only straight lines, we don't want this as well. Are there any settings we have to use to solve this issue

I have a part that shows the wireframe lines in white (for some reason, maybe the person who created it had a black background, otherwise I cannot see the reason for this).Is there a setting that controls the color of the lines in the wireframe view? Could also play with the thickness of those lines if there is a setting for that...But the COLOR is the burning issue for all parts that come with white/light gray lines.I tried Appearance --> System_Appearance color settings, but could not get it right, I found how to change the hidden lines color, but only that.Using CREO 10 on Windows 10.Many thanks!

As per the original post.    Hi BenLoosli,   In one of my project I have to update the assignee and reviewer details on drawing. So we are using the format to update this  for new also we are using format. Now to update the required parameters on drw. We are using Custom delegate. But seems like there is a glitch like sometime it is working fine and sometime it is not but in creo I can see the parameters with correct values. So I am not understanding why it is happening.    

Hi everyone, Long time viewer, first time poster.I am trying to make a chassis consisting of a swept C channel. It is consisting of a c channel changing in height but also is at an angle with reference to the original section.While looking simple, it has me quite flustured on the correct way to perform this. Got it half way there with the swept blend feature. But I am unable to rip the walls and create a flat pattern. How would you guys go about this? Keeping the model also simple to adjust. I am using CREO  4.0  Cheers, Peter 

I want to create a groove around the internal bore of a component, for an oil groove, the drawing dimensions show the start and end points as the same, so a continuous loop, but the groove moves along a helical sweep to its position 180 degrees from start, then returns to the origin.  Ive been looking at curves from equations to create the sweep profile, but struggling.  Attached a pic of the groove.

So i have been working on a project on my creo students version (creo parametric 11.0)and it seems that i am getting fatal errors frequently in some few minutes itself after opening the file.[i have been modelling with an imported IGES model.]so please find me some solutionsthis is the message im getting and dont know what to do please some one come to my aid .and i have also added my trace back log  too

I am trying to sweep a surface over a trajectory that has concave round edges. The problem is that it creates body that is overlapping. I need a single smooth body. Any ideas? 

Hi, I have create a cylinder which has a rope, when we rotate the cylinder the rope should move/rotate along the cylinder & repeat back to same position. Kindly help with an example if possbile. ThanksNaresh

Hi,I'm using Creo Parametric 9.0.6.0. I'm looking for help finding out the name of the calculated angle dimension in a pattern. I have a part that has a specifiable angle, 90 or 60 (red arrow). I need a different quantity of features (green check marks) depending on the angle of the part. These features must also start a specific distance away from an both inner edges. In order to pattern the features I created a curve (yellow line) at the constant offset from the inner edges (blue lines). In the pattern, my driving items are the curve and the number of features I want the pattern to have. It gives a resulting angle dimension between features (2nd image, red box), I'd like to use that value to show in the family table or show on a drawing. Is there a way for me to link to that value, does it have a name hidden somewhere?   

I am trying to show axis for slotted holes,  Creo 4.0  

Dear All,   I am converting a 2D drawing from a part of an existing product into a MBD dataset. To do so, I would like my MBD dataset to fully encompass all the annotations found in the 2D drawing (as they are the critical dimensions of the part), however, on the 2D drawing a Pitch Circle Dimension (PCD) of a hole pattern has been specified. I tried to annotate this through selecting 'Show dimensions' on the holes that lay on the pitch circle, but this did not work. Furthermore I tried 'Dimension' from the annotations tab but this also seemed to not be able to show the PCD. On both PTC (community) website and Google I could not find any answer on how to do this correctly, so therefore I am posting here. My question is: How can I (3D) annotate the Pitch Circle Dimension?   I did find a small work around, to use 'dimension' between two holes of the dimension. This sort of gives the dimension of the PCD, but the two holes are not parallel to the x-axis of the annotation plane. S

Typically,I create a 2D cam diagram in Creo using the "Create a curve by using an equation" feature.After generating the curve,I create a new sketch and project the curve onto it.Additionally,I save a copy of this sketch. Subsequently, I utilize the "Datum" -> "GRAPH" option,and then I insert the copied sketch (the file) into this "graph" feature.Next, I employ the "graph" and the "evalgraph" function to construct a 3D cam diagram suitable for Creo's sweep cut feature.Thus, there are two cam diagrams in my process:One is a regular sketch that is linked to the 2D equation curve, which I use for making drawings;The other is the sketch in the "GRAPH".I believe there might be a better method for creating a barrel cam model and its associated drawings.I would appreciate it if you could share your experience,thank you~!

1. Describe the Problem Please update the drawing creation tool so that it isn't terrible.  The automatic dimensioning is a mess.  The leader placement for hole callouts is ridiculous.  It is far too many clicks to add basics such as hole centermarks, let alone the nightmare of patterning centermarks for a bolt circle.  Maybe have someone on the staff with experience working to common engineering standards help out the programmers? Why have you inflicted this upon us? 2. Are you using a workaround?Yes, encouraging my management to dump Creo for one of its more competent competitors.3. What is the use case for your organization?We make standard engineering drawings.4. What impact does this problem currently have on your organization?Wasted time, money, effort, lots of staff time spent complaining about how awful Creo is.

Sketch Inversion Problem I need some ideas on how to make this sketch robust so that it will not invert on me.I know this has been a long-time problem since the beginning of ProE.I would have thought this would have been solved by now. I’m working on creating a UDF for an arc slot.I also have a different UDF I’m working on for a pattern of these on a bolt circle pattern On the pattern I had a similar problem if I tried to use the start angle dim as the pattern angle. When I switched to an axis angle, the issue went away. Here is how my sketch is constructed.  I’m having an issue with the sketch inverting when I exceed a certain dimension on the start angle.I know this is a bit extreme for the start angle, but I’m trying to exercise the sketch to make sure it works in all cases.  At 126 degrees for the start angle the rounds on the end of the slot invert.  However, if the slot angle is increased at some point, it fixes itself and I can i

I think Advance sweep features are powerful and well controlled compared to cabling. Having said that, why was Cabling application created. All features could have been added to sweep feature menu. Mainly I think it is just the flattening of harness. why to make it so complex instead keeping it simple with advance sweep and curves?    

we are using Creo Design Engineering Package. We are facing an issue, while saving file with some changes or even creating a new file, software program is not creating "Numerical Control" (NC) for machine.  We are first time user and not familiar to this software. Kindly support us in this regard asap. Regards  

Hi All, Recently I replaced my graphics card for a Nvidia RTX 4000 card. Since then Creo (8.0) tends to crash way more often. At first I had my doubts whether Creo is using the card or grabs back to the onboard card but in Creo the system information tells me it is using the RTX card. Any idea how I can figure out what causes this crashes? Is it coming from Creo or could it be the card itself? Thanks in advance!Bart

I am using Creo Parametric Release 9.0 and Datecode9.0.7.0When tangent edge line style is being changed to any other than default, using reset button or copying style from another tangent edge will not bring default style (thin continuous line), but it will set it to the line style of contours (wide continuous line) instead. The issue affects how drawing exported to PDF format looks like (line thicknesses).

When deleting a patterned part you get (2) options "Delete Pattern" and "Delete". If you are getting rid of the part completely, I have typically just chose "Delete". When this is done, the family table has a orphaned dimension left in the table for the quantity of the pattern. Why would the pattern quantity not be deleted also?    

How do you resize the column widths in family table beside dragging the divider line in the header?

I am using Creo Parametric Release 11.0 and Datecode11.0.2.0when ı choose profile(framework) which Bosch type like sigma, it seems only rectangular.