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ILoveMadoka1-Visitor
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March 7, 2018
Question

Locate Part in Viewport by selecting in the Model Tree??

  • March 7, 2018
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Creo Parametric 3.0, how can I locate a part in the Viewport
by selecting it in the tree?
My Assembly has thousands of parts, many VERY small.

Picking on one part DOES NOT make the part jump out enough to find it.

I know you Locate in Model Tree going the "other way"
but how can you Locate in the Viewport by selecting from the Model Tree?
Is there a Zoom to Selection or some other command? Isolate?

 

Imagine an entire car very detailed and needing to find a single small nut.

The car has too much detail for a single small nut to "jump out" at you by selecting it in the tree...


Please help!

 

Thank you.

11 replies

Mahesh_Sharma
Mahesh_Sharma22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
March 7, 2018

Locate in model tree is as of now.. not any further 

StephenW
StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
March 7, 2018

There is an option called enable_selection_glow yes in the config.pro that may help.

See this discussion for more info.

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Creo-Modeling-Questions/how-to-turn-on-neon-effects-for-selected-feature-or-dimension/m-p/199775

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ILoveMadoka1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
March 7, 2018

My search for Fixed Placement shows items highlighted in the Model Tree but I need

to find their exact location in this vast assembly.

 

This is very cool and it helps with the "larger" of the (small) items

but with the really small ones it is still not enough.

 

Nobody has ever needed to do this before?

I can't believe I can't find any other posts on this subject.

 

I was just wondering if there is some other option or workaround?

 

 

ON a side note, thanks for the list of config.pro items.

Anyone have a list of "Must Use" out of all those settings/options?

 

 

 

 

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dnordin16-Pearl
16-Pearl
March 7, 2018

In Creo Parametric 4.0, you can select the object in the model tree, right click, and select zoom to selected objects bounding box.  I don't believe the option was in 3.0.

 

Regards,

 

Dan N.

    Mahesh_Sharma
    Mahesh_Sharma22-Sapphire I
    22-Sapphire I
    March 7, 2018

    Yes, it is an enhancement from Creo 4.0.  

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    dschenken1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    March 7, 2018

    forget it.

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