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DamianCastillo1-Visitor
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July 18, 2012
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Will we ever get simple animations and component dragging in Creo?

  • July 18, 2012
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SolidWorks has the ability to create simple animations and drag components in an assembly out of the box for years.

 

Will PTC ever add this to Creo?

 

So many companies can benefit from creating simple animations and the ability to drag the components in your assembly to see how things work together. We should not need some expensive extension to do this. It's a fundamental process of design validation and communication if you ask me.

 

Why can't we get this functionality in the core license while providing an extension for people that want to do far more complicated things with animations?

 

What are the communities thoughts on this? Is there a TC group already asking PTC about this core functionality?

 

Thanks


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    Patriot_1776
    Patriot_177622-Sapphire II
    22-Sapphire II
    July 18, 2012

    I agree. There's an assembly I've tried to animate in Mechanism, and it gives an error. It's pretty simple, and should not be giving me issues, but Mechanism is obviously not very robust.

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    KrisR1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    July 18, 2012

    Or robustly buggy

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    s.iyer1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    July 20, 2012

    Dragging a component in a mechanism to create motion has been around since WF4 or WF5 (Look for the Hand icon at the top). Before that one could define motors and run an analysis to give motion to the mechanism. As for robustness, I never faced any problems. I have used almost all the mechanism joints except lift off.

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    DamianCastillo1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    July 20, 2012

    s.iyer

    Thank you for the input but you are not understanding the core issue here. I am saying that PTC needs the ability to EASILY move components in an Assembly and the ability to EASILY create Animations on the core license, without additional extensions or purchases.


    SolidWorks provides this out of the box. In SolidWorks, when you create an assembly and contraint the components like you would in Creo, you can drag them around without doing anything extra. It automatically understands how things can move based on stardard contraints without the need for "Mechanisims".

    SolidWorks also allows you to quickly and easily create an Animation with no additional software requirements.

    It's out of the box and super easy to use.

    I don't have a question on what extensions I need to do things like this. I am wanting to know why do we require additional extensions to do something so basic and why does PTC have to make it so difficult to use. I should be able to drag my components around with no additional effort and quickly create animations with an easy to use tool.

    Hope that clears things up.

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    ReinhardN1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    July 21, 2012

    Damian,

    I dont understand your complaint. MDX is part of the standard Creo edition, you only have to use it.

    Reinhard

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