3D Part & Assembly Design

Hello, I am a student in Mechanical Engineering and I am looking to make a so-called hypoidal pinion.I want this pinion to be parametric, I have already done 90% of the work but I am stuck.I am trying to find a curve that allows me to start from the top of the cone to a pitch circle where the tooth of my pinion is defined. This curve must have a BETA parameter that allows me to manage the inclination of the teeth. The problem is that my curve goes too far, and I don't know how to limit the h factor in my equation, as you can see here ->My curve must take into account the following parameters (I think):Spiral angle (β): This is the angle of the spiral of the tooth.Pressure angle (𝛼): This is the angle formed by the line of action with the transverse plane.Base radius (𝑟𝑏): This is the radius at the base (primitive) of the cone where the teeth begin.Module (𝑚): This is the measure that connects the distance between two consecutive teeth on the pitch circle.Taper angle (𝛾):

Hello, community! When I import a stl file, I have no way of knowing whether it is closed (other than the visual search for a green colored hole). Is there a simple way to ensure that the imported STL file is closed? I appreciate the responses in advance.Thanks

Hi, im working on a university project and new to the whole top-down design game.I have already created a sketch and some datum planes in my skeleton model. (I have many variables, so there is a lot of references).Next, I have published some of the sketches as a publish-geometry, so i can use it as a sketch for my parts which will be part of my assembly. Now Ive got the problem that i just cant get the copied sketch to work like a normal sketch for revolving or extruding parts. I have already tried moving the copy-geometry around inside of my model tree (main assemby, subassembly, part), but the only way I could imagine using the copied sketch as a revolve/extrude sketch is by referencing every single line inside of my copied sketch and using it to make a new sketch, which just does not seem rigth. Sadly, I also cant find any tutorials on this specific problem, because everyone uses the copy-geometry feature for already existig parts and not sketches.Bonus question:

hi,I have creat a mapkey in the 3D model,but when I work in the 2D model,the mapkeys do not work,

I'm running Creo 9 and there is an option to merge bodies. Is that not possible in Creo 8?   ----------------------------------- (Note from the Moderator: this question was a comment, moved from this Creo idea)

Is there a way to regenerate the part model and assembly using ModelCHECK SAVE mode? is there a way to confirm whether the model is regenerated or not?/ family table is verified or not?/relations is verified or not? using the ModelCHECK save mode.

Hello everybody,in creo 7 do i have the possibility to directly put on the table the single bodies of a multibody part?do I have the ability to shot the bodies? Do I have to extract the parts and redo an assembly? Thank you,Matteo.

Why can I not move the yellow highlighted item to below the datum planes in this assembly feature tree?  Using Creo 10.

Hello,Creo Parametric 8.0.6 I've created a mapkey to export dxf file and save drawing/part parameters then use vbscript to rename the dxf file, the mapkey works great in Creo but when i use distrubuted batch to export dxf using this mapkey it will only export the first page, is there a way to loop this for all pages in a drawing? Thanks,TTD <TTD version="1.0" created_by="PTC"><DESCRIPTION>Run a mapkey defined in a config.pro</DESCRIPTION><GROUP>Misc</GROUP><DETAILS>Will be run on any file type; user is responsible for choosing types that mapkey will operate on correctly.</DETAILS><SERVICE name="dbatchs"/><FILTER_FILE_TYPES type=".drw"/><!-- Replace "F1" with chosen mapkey when customizing file --><TKFUNC func="ProMapkeyRun" mapkey_key_sequence="dxfdet"><save_model>false</save_model></TKFUNC></TTD>

Currently running Creo Parametric 7. I'm trying to auto-populate a repeat region.  In this assembly, there are two cases:1) XXXXXX-XXXXX-000, where "000" is the component find number. This is a parameter automatically generated at the part level, and can be called via relation asm_mbr_fn2) The second case is a manually entered find number at the assembly level. This can be called via asm_mbr_cparam_find_number These cases are mutually exclusive, i.eParts that fall under case 2 do not have an automatically generated asm_mbr_fn,Parts that fall under case 1 do not have a manually entered asm_mbr_cparam_find_number The components that fall under either case also have a specific naming convention. (see "YYYY", "_XXX" and "_YYYY" below) Here is the relation I have written - but it is not working correctly, specifically the second IF statement is failing. Those cells in the table are blank.  The first IF statement works just fine - it correctly populates the part

I want to fill the symbol square with white and make the text ABC black.   1. What product and version are you running? Creo Parametric 9.0.8.0   2. Are you having issues? I want to fill the symbol square with white and make the text ABC black. I tried hatching and filling, but the text became the same color and became unreadable.   3. Are you using a workaround? If yes, please explain it. No, there is no workaround.   4. What is the use case for your organization? Explain how your idea works in a disruptive environment or how it applies to a real-world situation.   5. How is this issue currently impacting your organization? (number of users affected, lost productivity hours, etc.) I'm using the Toolkit to place symbols, but when I place the symbols on a model in a drawing, the text inside the symbols becomes hard to read.   Currently, I manually adjust the symbol position after placing the symbol, but this is time-consuming due to the large number of targ

I'm working remotely today trying to retrieve a rather large assembly.  My Creo home directory is a mapped server drive sitting at HQ.  Not recommended I believe but that is our current configuration. When I retrieve this assembly it looks like randomly named temp files are being written to my home directory, causing this retrieval to take a long time.  See circled in the attached.  Knowing this setup is not the best, why are these files being written and what can be done until we can convince our IT people to put our home directories local to our laptops? Creo 8.0.0.0,  Windchill 12. Thanks..

I can't open my Top assembly file, I applied a few notebooks for my design (Model and Assembly),I found an error message below the message log bar: "All notebooks referenced by model A will be retrieved". I tried to fix this by undeclare the notebooks in this model but it still happens with the otherIt just happened 1 day ago, before I could open it normally. Do you have any solutions for this such Crashes 

My colleague is working on a large assembly. He puts the model into an isometric orientation and saves it in the model with that orientation. Then he places a view on the drawing and picks that saved orientation and the model is rotated in the drawing view.   I have reproduced it on my machine with a brand new blank drawing. Both the model and the drawing are the same rep. There are no family tables at this level.   Has anyone else ever come across something like this? Any ideas? If no other ideas, we will just dial it in with rotating about references until its close to the iso in the model.

In Creo 7 (with Windchill/PDMLink) changing model units from inch to mm (metric) the model and drawing dimensions do not convert to commas from decimal points (decimal points remain). Was successful in previous model/drawings. I checked configs, customizations and more and they are identical from previous successes. Any thoughts are welcome.

One of our designers has a drawing that was saved in January and none of the parts or the assembly have been modified since then, except the skeleton file that is used for positioning the assembly. When he and I opened the drawing this morning from Windchill, most of the views have shifted locations and even dimensions on one view that did not shift have been moved from where they were in January.  This is very disturbing, especially the dimensioning and balloons moving in relation to their original placement. I can see something in the skeleton causing the model to 'move' but not dimensions to a view that has not moved. We are on Windchill 11.0 M030 CPS16 and Creo 4 M080.   Has anyone else seen this behavior?

I am just trying to use the assembly for FEM exporting STEP.  How can i create a coordinate system by importing one from a step file or other format at the TOP level.  How can I do this while another designer has the assembly checked out / my workspace is out of date.  I do not care about updates.

I am using Creo Parametric Release 9.0 and Datecode9.0.3.0How can I embed the fonts in a .prt files ?I made a wrapping feature onto a solid part with a text using a special true type font. When I send the part (.prt file ) to my supplier (who does not have the same font) he cannot see the text with the same font.Is it possible to embed the fonts into the feature so that it does not change ?Here are the errors that I facedno error messages, different fonts on different machines with the same prt file.

Hello All,I have a an multiple assemblies which contains part with same name but different parameters. Is there a way to retrieve the parts parameter by its name.For example:My assembly has p1.prt, p2.prt and p3.prt. They all have a parameter weight.In drawing I want to do something like this "&weight:p1.prt".Is there a way to do this?

Hello all,   I am seeing a small dimension discrepancy of about 0.01 between an extrusion (remove material) I did and the use of the measuring tool distance feature. I am scratching my head as to why, and I cannot figure out its cause. I attached some images and a video. The extruded cut is 3.00 but when I measure it becomes 2.99.Thank you.

Hi Community.Our company has many Creo users in different offices all over the globe. We are faced with many crashes every day, which is frustrating for users.We are running CREO 10.0.2 on new Dell Precision 5680 laptops.-i9-13900H-32GB RAM-nVidia RTX A3500 Ada Generation laptop-Win 11 Pro OSObservations: The crashes are mainly in our offices in Paris, Nantes (both France) and Jena (Germany), but not in Stockholm (Sweden), Sunnyvale (CA) and Christchurch (NZ).The Windchill server is located in Stockholm. The license server is located in Sunnyvale.The number of daily crashes depends on the graphics card driver release version. The latest one is not the most stable.At lunch break the screen is locked. After unlocking the screen the CREO window freezes  and the session is crashing immediately.Often the session is crashing if the software is reporting a license issue.Crashes with huge ASMsCrashes when creating drawings.We believe there are several root causes for these behaviors.&nbsp

Creo 7 environment. Dual dimensioned print is not acceptable.    Is it possible to use a metric (mm) part model to create an imperial (inches) 2D drawing? The parts are designed in metric units but a request for dimensioned prints using inches only has been made. If it is possible, what combination of config and detail settings will make this work in drawing mode?   The part should remain in metric, I am aware that the option to convert the part to inches and then create an inch drawing exists, but this would require maintaining the same part model in two systems of units in PLM environment. If we can drive an inch drawing with a mm part that would be the preferred solution.

Hi,   I should know is it possible to frame a note with a single frame on 2D model when you want to write on many lines like this screenshot. Because actually I just do frame each line only but not all the lines together. Thanks for your help if you can give me tips. Regards.      

Hello, I'm using Creo 10 making multiple pipes in an assembly. Is there a way to change color of each pipe without making a part of each line section? It would cause trouble when saving as it would create alot of unnessecary parts. The default is blue, so it feels like there should be someway to change it. I havent found anything in the Piping module. Using View->Appearances doesn't register the pipe as a surface or body that can be used for coloring.

Hi, I need some help to launch Creo 9 on Windows 11. I use a VM with Parallels because my laptop is a MacBook Pro M2Pro 16gb RAM. My VM has 8 cores for the CPU and 10gb RAM.2 days ago I installed Creo 9 because I will use it for my 4th semestre as an aeronautical engineer student in Bordeaux's University (I'm French so my English isn't perfect). I installed with success the folder that the university has given to us called "MED-100WIN-CD-460_9-0-0-0_Win64", extracted it, launched the "setup.exe" files, put my key licence and dowloaded everything. Then I have tried to run the file "Creo Parametric 9.0.0.0" but nothing happened. Just my cursor tell my that is loading during 1 second (you know like when you try to launch something on Windows the cursor does a blue loop to tell you that it's loading) and then nothing happen. Can you please tell me what I have to do to launch Creo ? Don't worry I will use it in January so it's not urgent but I wan't to know the basics to work some