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5-Regular Member
May 8, 2026
Question

Unknown glyph when erasing objects

  • May 8, 2026
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I retrieve an assembly in session. Then I use the "erase current” option in Creo (12.4.3.0).

After that, I see the list where one item has a glyph in front of it. Anyone know what this is/means?

 

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23-Emerald III
May 8, 2026

I haven’t seen that one and a quick search of the knowledge base didn’t get any useful results. I would submit it as a low priority tech support question.

tbraxton
22-Sapphire II
22-Sapphire II
May 10, 2026

This glyph may indicate that the assembly is a Child of Packaged. Investigate your assembly and report back if this is the case or not. You can use the reference viewer tool to visualize and trace the component dependency.

fdeklerk5-Regular MemberAuthor
5-Regular Member
May 11, 2026

It is not a child of packaged. In fact, the assembly don't exist (anymore?). I think it has to do with ghostparts (which we have been dealing with al lot again since the upgrade to Creo12). Normally you do see this in your workspace, but I can't find this assembly anywhere. I did find this site, but the relevant icon isn't there (and as I showed, it is not in the modeltree).

fdeklerk5-Regular MemberAuthor
5-Regular Member
May 11, 2026

I am a bit wiser now. That filename turns out to be the old filename of the same assembly I currently want to erase from session. I renamed that assembly in Windchill a few weeks ago. If I export the assembly in question to my hard drive and open the file with a text editor, I still see the old filename appear several times. It might be logical to store the history in the file, but I don't think it's supposed to happen that the old name appears in the erase window. For me, it has the characteristics of a ghost file.

Mahesh_Sharma
22-Sapphire I
May 11, 2026

Hi ​@fdeklerk 

 

This seems to be a unsupported character in the file name, Creo is unable to render it hence showing as unidentified character. Try renaming the file, or export file name to text using DOs and check if it is showing something there. 

fdeklerk5-Regular MemberAuthor
5-Regular Member
May 12, 2026

Hello Mahesh_Sharma.

I don't quite understand what you mean. How can I rename something that no longer exists? The name with the special glyph in front of it is the OLD name of the file I want to erase from the current session. So I don't really understand why it is in that overview anyway.

As I said, if I search for (parts of) this name in Windchill, it is no longer found.