3D Part & Assembly Design

Hi, I am still using Creo 4.0 M050. When making 2D drawings of a part, I usually specify a dimension tolerance as 'Plus-Minus' or as a 'Letter-Number' combination (like H6, G7, E8 ...).Sometimes I feel it is more appropriate to specify both. The nuisance is that Creo puts the Letter-Number combination (E8 in this case) always behind the Plus-Minus numbers.So, like this:But I would prefer that the E8 comes immediately behind the nominal dimension, and in front of the Plus-Minus. Like Diam 3E8 +0.05/+0.10.I couldn't find a way. Is this possible in Creo 4.0 ? 

I am using Creo Parametric Release 10.0 and Datecode10.0.5.0in Creo 10.0.5.0 when saving an assy as an iges (save-as), the iges does not shoe datums and points.Here are the errors that I facedn/a

Is there a way to use the Search tool to find all edges with a length greater than x?Example: I want to round a bunch of edges in my model, they are quite a few and tricky to select. If I could do a search and select all edges longer than 15. That would cover most if not all edges I want.Is this a thing in Creo Parametric?We are using Creo 7 here.

Hello, Today i have a question about global structure and interractions between parts, assembly, bill of materials etc. Here is a view of my architecture :For creating new products, i design parts. These are assembled in assembly and for the master assembly i edit a bill of material with a repeat region in a table. Export in .csv, sort in Excel for buying standart parts, supply raw material, manufacture parts, send to subcontractor for some etc. For parts which i manufacture, i create a manufacturing assembly with a raw part. I create the machining program and a drawing for our machine shop. Now the questions :To manage the supplies i use my master bill of material (parts and components are sorted with parameters in the repeat region). but for the part i machine, i don't need the part itself but the raw part corresponding to this part. My problem, there is no link between these two. Currently I make the link manually but it's tedious when you have around thirty part

I created an assembly using skeleton and I want to create a mirrored copy. I tried to save as a copy but I think that due to the complexity, the result presents errors. I just want to save it as a mirror, but it could be as an IGES part. I'm saving an iges and opening the iges and mirroring it, but in Windchill this process is slow. Is there any more direct way to do this?

Hello, I am exploring the piping option to use in our assemblies. Because we are working with a PLM system (Windchill), I need to embed the pipe pieces created with the piping option. Otherwise each little piece of pipe will get an article number in Windchill. What I would like to get is for the assembly that contains the embedded parts, to get a parameter: materialcode & length for each type of pipe used.Any other ideas are welcome as well. The moral of the story is: The pipes are embedded but I want to be able to extract the materialcode and length of each type used, regardless of the amount of pipe pieces.Are there possibilities here? All I can find is a little menu that can tell me the length of certain pipes and store it, but it's not extractable nor does it update.

Hi all, After an upgrade in a drawing template, where i updated/deleted some symbols, annotations and change fonts.But, it seems that an old fonts is still present, because i have the message "***.ttf.ndx is not loaded.But for me, the annotations/ symbol which used this one are deleted.How can i purge the drawing template for all the fonts unused?I tried the options upadte_drawing all, the delete unused symbols options but without success.How can i clean my drawings template for unused fonts? 

Hello Team, I have around 50+ points defined on a surface in the assembly using Coordinate system. Now I want to pull them in the drawing directly in a table. and this table should be parametric. Do we have such an option? I have already tried Hole table options, but with this the points will not get automatically updated in the drawing once they are moved in the assembly. Please provide an alternate way to fix my problem. Right now to make the table parametric I manually add the dimensions for the point in the drawing, copy its symbolic name and paste it inside the cell with a prefix "&", but i have to do this for all the 50+ and for both X & Y dimensions.  

in Creo Parametric 7.0.3.0,Is there a function that allows me to make ALL hidden parts visible when I'm in an assembly?Obviously, I can go through and select them individually, but this is a large assembly and it's not worth the time of day to do all that. So is there a button that does them all at once?

Is there a way to project all edges from a surface into a sketch without having to select them all individually?I am running Creo 3 - M010Thanks in advance!

I am using Creo Parametric Release 3.0 and DatecodeF000We need to uninstall a node-locked license from a user - and install it on a new computer.Need help

hello 🙂 I have a trouble. some dimensions I can't change orientation or move to another plane. like, I want to move Φ12 to the top view, it will tell me " you can not move the specified dimension to the selected view" What is the specified? I can't perform this action in the Annotate function too!   thank you for your help  

Hi Community I'm using Creo 11.0.1.0 When I import a STEP File that was created with Siemens NX 11, there are a lot of surfaces that fail.By optimizing the import settings, the load time was improved, but the surfaces still aren't ideal. Can anyone share a STEP Import Profile configuration?Thanks for your help! This is the STEP file header:ISO-10303-21;HEADER;/* Generated by software containing ST-Developer* from STEP Tools, Inc. (www.steptools.com)*//* OPTION: using custom schema-name function */FILE_DESCRIPTION(/* description */ (''),/* implementation_level */ '2;1');FILE_NAME(/* name */ 'FileName.stp',/* time_stamp */ '2017-09-15T09:42:51+02:00',/* author */ (''),/* organization */ (''),/* preprocessor_version */ 'ST-DEVELOPER v16',/* originating_system */ 'SIEMENS PLM Software NX 11.0',/* authorisation */ '');FILE_SCHEMA (('AUTOMOTIVE_DESIGN { 1 0 10303 214 3 1 1 1 }'));ENDSEC; Best wishes Alex

Using Creo 8.0.11.0 and having some trouble getting an assembly to come together the right way. Major part of my problem is how parts refuse to move to satisfy the constraints on them like how I'm used to the SolidWorks mates work. Is there a config/setting I can change to make it function more like SolidWorks in that way? The rollback on the assembly while using edit definition is a whole other challenge adding onto this.

Hello, To build optional assemblies in our modular models, we use envelopes. An example of this would be an automatic greasing system. This system is optional and therefore it's essential for us that all of the parts associated with this option are all in one assembly.To build the assembly, we need a framework to constrain it to. That's where envelopes come in. We use an envelope of the base frame in the greasing assembly and constrain all parts to it. Other advantages is that we can place this assembly default in the main assembly and the factory can use the envelope to easily see where to mount the parts, while the envelope does not appear on the BOM.We noticed that in Creo 8 this would result in problems when modifying the Envelope (due to face IDs changing). Now, in Creo 10.0.4.0, this problem seems to have gone away, which is great. However, the company advising us told us Envelopes shouldn't be used in this way officially.My question therefore is: Is it a coincidence this pr

Good morning members of the Community!We have a client who wants to see how Creo Parametric performs compared to SoliWorks for large assemblies!!! Would any of you have an ideal config.pro for large assemblies that I could use in a demonstration?Client wants 30 licenses!Thank you very much,

Hey,When i want to install Creo 9, i want ro run the setup programm but, after starting it nothing happens, it doesnt even show up in the Task-Manager, Firewall is deactivated and im on the Administrator Account with all rights.Thanks for the Help. 

Dear PTC-Community, I want to replace a section of a part with formula driven lattices (Gyroid in the example case).I also want to try out different shapes for the section to be replaced and have the same surface for each version.In the three examples below, the shape and position of the section to be replaced is slightly different.Different versions of slots going trough the part For each case, I am placing the first unit cell in the top left corner and orient it along the slot as shown here:Unit Cell orientation and placement I understand that as the Part is wound in space and does not consist of a straight surface, the unit cell gets "cut" in a different way depending on the position of the part to be replaced on the surface. Is there is a way to get the same surface for all three different positions? To have the unit cell align itself on a curved surface so to say. What I did try was to create a cuboid, replace it with lattices and then bend the cuboid manu

In Creo 9 and above what's the config rule "DEF_LAYER" to add "datums symbol feature" into a custom layer? Thank you

Hi,I need to get the COG coordinate of part with respect to assembly origin in drawing.For consider an assembly as shown bellowIn drawing file, I need to make table with part name, weight, Coordinates of center of gravity with respect to the main assembly(X,Y,Z). how to get it?

Hello I have a reference pattern created from geometry present in another part in assembly. Referenced pattern does not get updated automatically, when I update my parent/main feature. What could be the main reason refernce pattern does not get updated automatically when refernce with external geometry. I have also checked the update control is set to automatically . TIA

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Does anyone have a way to convert a Creoview .pvz or .edz or .pvs file to an .fbx file for use in graphics applications?   Many thanks in advance.

In short - I can't not see quilts that present threads within Hole feature, until I select them. Full explanation:Say I start a new empty part, model tree is completely empty aside from a few datum features: Now I create a demo quilt just to demonstrate that Creo settings are presumably correct and quilts are actually displayed. So far so good:  Now I create a solid block with an M6 threaded hole (ignore the random dimmension sizes for the purpose of this example):  A hole feature with thread quilt is created, as can be seen by selection highlight of the hole. However note that there is still only one quilt in the Quilts menu at the top of the tree created by the Fill feature, so it means that Hole didn't create its own new Quilt body@     Now I hide the solid block, and the quilt of the thread is also invisible. However, I can still hover the mouse over it, and it gets pre-select highlighted:  I can select both sides of

Hello everyone,I am trying to create a DATE parameter for my startparts, which at the creation of a new part is linked to the parameter PTC_WM_WM_CREATED_ON by a relation, but which can be modified later, if necessary. This, avoiding that users have to modify or remove relations. With these relations the DATA parameter is editable from the day after creation, but I would like to use something better: IF PTC_WM_CREATED_ON == PTC_WM_MODIFIED_ONDATE=PTC_WM_CREATED_ONENDIF I don’t want to be forced to wait a day, but I don’t know if there is another way to do that, using only relations and existing parameters.Any ideas? Thank youMarco p.s.I'm using CREO 8.0.9.0 and Windchill 12.0.2.10 and the date format in Windchill is set on dd-mm-yyyy (08-10-2024)