What are your favorite features that are new to Creo 1, 2, and Creo 3 (and possibly WF5)?
Valuable bantering aside for the moment 😉 , there are some great improvements in Creo and I am curious at compiling these into one document! What I have found is that it takes a lot of time for people to find these features, so maybe this will help others...and me!
This is a positive thread so if you cannot handle the urge to list features that PTC broke or removed (and yes there are some!), please comment in this location:
This should be modifiable by anyone so feel free to contribute. If you rather not you can comment below and I will add it!
| Feature | Description | Version Added |
|---|---|---|
| Command Search | Accessed within the Ribbon to teach users where in the Ribbon commands are, and even mapkeys that I added! Really well done, implemented, and updated since then! A huge time saver | Creo2/1 |
Replace component ("On the Fly Interchange") | Using unrelated component: Edit Reference Table where I can pick references to replace when the new/old components are side by side. Not only this but if I click Evaluate it will automatically replace some of the references without me having to pick them manually. This is really well done and a huge time saver! | Creo2/1 |
| Learning Connector | Embedded context specific video tutorials via the Learning Connector. Very useful to learn new features! | Creo2/1 |
Flexible Modeling (Although with older packages we are forced to pay for this set of features) | Great tool for adjusting step files and actually very useful for helping to fix broken imported data since it is more intuitive and simpler to use (in my and my coworker's opinion) than Import Data Doctor. | Creo2/1 |
| New Edit Reference Tools | Highlighting of position of old refs, better UI for replacing refs, selective replacement of other children, etc. See: | Creo3 |
| Collapse Geometry | Make portions of the model independent from the feature tree by collapsing them into an independent or imported feature. https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS59684 | Creo1/3 |
| Failed Features and Resolve mode | Replacing resolve mode with just allowing the feature to fail and then change/correct your model as you would outside of failure mode. (What is odd about this though, is that if the feature is grouped, it is unfortunately harder to find which feature actually failed...hope PTC makes finding it easier!) | Creo2 |
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