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March 25, 2019
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Persistent names of persistent entities in STEP export

  • March 25, 2019
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I have searched for the functions to attach entity names to edge or face entities and Creo Parametric provides promising results for this kind of functionality. The problem is if I want to export a part in revisions after modifications. The names of the old entities get modified. One such case is shown in the figure.

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Mahesh_Sharma
22-Sapphire I
March 25, 2019

@tahir 

Are these standard notes? 

Can you share a sample file?

tahir1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
March 25, 2019

I am not sure about the standard notes but these are attached when I select the option for export with names. I have attached the files. The file shown in left side of the figure is named as "sqrwn" and modified one is named as "sqrwn2".

The names are  52,62 etc. such as '52',#83.

For the case of left hand side

#99=ORIENTED_EDGE('52',*,*,#83,.F.);
#101=ORIENTED_EDGE('62',*,*,#100,.T.);
#103=ORIENTED_EDGE('57',*,*,#102,.T.);
#105=ORIENTED_EDGE('64',*,*,#104,.F.);
#106=EDGE_LOOP('61',(#99,#101,#103,#105));
#107=FACE_OUTER_BOUND('61',#106,.F.);

Whereas for the 2nd file

#147=ORIENTED_EDGE('100',*,*,#132,.F.);
#149=ORIENTED_EDGE('104',*,*,#148,.T.);
#151=ORIENTED_EDGE('66',*,*,#150,.F.);
#152=ORIENTED_EDGE('53',*,*,#103,.F.);
#153=ORIENTED_EDGE('107',*,*,#119,.T.);
#154=EDGE_LOOP('63',(#147,#149,#151,#152,#153));
#155=FACE_OUTER_BOUND('63',#154,.F.);

 

I have attached the files in CreoExport.zip. In the above figure, four fillets were added whereas the current case is with single fillet for simplicity.

 

Mahesh_Sharma
22-Sapphire I
March 25, 2019

@tahir 

Zip the file and attach to post. 

Patriot_1776
22-Sapphire II
March 28, 2019

Why would you even want to do that?  As mentioned, it's not possible, unless maybe you went into the file in a text editor or something and changed them.

tahir1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 2, 2019

This kind of identification information may prove to be really helpful for the product life cycle.

Patriot_1776
22-Sapphire II
April 2, 2019

How, exactly?  I'm missing how this is important.  It's a STEP file, right?  FEATURE names I totally get.  Edge names?  Nope.  What are you planning to do with this information?