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Attached to this blog post is a short presentation on the new enhancements to Geometric Tolerances (GTOL) in Creo 4.0 in Drawing mode.Any questions or feedback you have related to GTOLs should be provided as comments to the blog post.That will be the easiest way for me to keep track of the comments and also be able to provide timely responses to your questions. If you follow this post, you can be notified of those comments as well and be able to learn from what others are asking. I may also periodically update this post to add some new details or information related to GTOLs.Also, don't forget to follow the main blog post for 2D Detailing - which will have links to other 2D Detailing-related content 2D Detailing Home: Start Here!

Hello Multibody community!   As I recently have received some questions and suggestions around how to trim a body, let me spend a few minutes today to tackle that topic.   #1) How can I trim a body by a datum, surface, quilt etc? I have heard this question several times, as there is no “Trim Body” tool currently in Creo Parametric 7.0. Still, we do have other tools that you can use to trim body geometry.  If you want to trim a body by a datum, surface, quilt, this is the “Solidify-Tool” with the “Remove Geometry” option. Here are two examples how that would look like. Two hints if you want to try it: Set the body that you want to trim as default body. This saves you from needing to access the body options panel in the feature  Pick the trimming object first to get access to the solidify feature         #2) How can I trim a body by another body? This is often useful to perform Boolean operations with a trimmed “modifying body”. Here is an examp

Creo Flow Analysis How to Series Videos and associated Creo CAD files attached. Wizard Walkthrough Video: Internal Fluid Volume Extraction Video: Splitting Fluid Domain Video: Resistance Model Setup Video: Creating an External Fluid Volume Video: External Flow Post-processing Video: Using the Expression Editor Video: Multiphase Modeling Application - Fuel Tank Video: Basic Post-processing Video: 

August 19, 2020 Replay WebcastThis video has chapters — open the player menu to jump to any section.Chapter Summaries0:00 – Welcome & Speaker Introductions: Simerics, PTC & CFD 102 Kickoff Moderator Diane opens the CFD 102 webinar and hands off to Rich Moore (Simerics EVP), who introduces Todd Kraft (PTC Simulation PM), Tom Quaglia (PTC Director of Strategic CAD Accounts), and lead application engineer Alex Zhang. 2:39 – CFD 101 Recap: Simerics MP, PumpLinX, Orca3D & Onshape Integration Rich recaps the Simerics MP analyst CFD platform, its vertical products PumpLinX (pumps, valves, compressors) and Orca3D (marine CFD), and the ongoing embedding of Simerics MP into Creo Parametric and Onshape. 3:57 – Creo Flow Analysis Packages & Digital Thread with Creo Simulate, Vuforia Studio, Windchill Overview of the three Creo Flow Analysis tiers (Base, Plus, Premium) and how the tool ties into the PTC digital thread — including a nozzle FSI hand-off to Creo Simulate and a snowmobi

June 24, 2020 Replay WebcastThis video has chapters available in the player menu.Chapter Summaries0:09 – Welcome & Introductions: CFD 101 Agenda, Simerics & PTC Speakers Moderator Diane opens the webcast and hands off to Rich Moore (Simerics EVP of Strategy, OEMs and Partners), Todd Krafft (PTC Simulation Product Manager), Tom Quaglia (PTC Director of CAD Strategic Accounts), and lead application engineer Alex Jang, who outline the session agenda. 3:28 – About Simerics: MP/MP+ Analyst CFD, PumpLinks & Orca3D Marine Rich Moore introduces Simerics as the developer of the Simerics MP and MP+ analyst CFD platform, plus vertical products like PumpLinks for pumps, valves and compressors, and Orca3D Marine CFD — the "digital water" for naval architects working in 3D. 5:41 – Creo Flow Analysis Packages & the PTC Digital Thread Overview of the Base, Plus and Premium tiers of Creo Flow Analysis and how it stays associative to Creo Parametric, Creo Simulate, Vuforia Studio and Win

The Creo Product Management team acknowledges the additive manufacturing industry has been quickly evolving and many of our customers are moving beyond prototyping and into final part production. Based on that, you may be aware that we have been working over the past releases of Creo to support this transition through robust additive manufacturing software. A lot of these efforts were made possible thanks to constant feedback from our users that helped drive our product. On that note, we’re currently seeking feedback specific to additive manufacturing in order to validate our assumptions and strengthen our pipeline for the next several releases. We would like to hear from you as we plan to build a better product and experience, please use the link below to answer the survey:   PTC Additive Manufacturing Survey.

This is the worksheet that corresponds with the blog post Painting Easter Eggs with PTC Mathcad.   Play around with it and paint your own Easter eggs. Be sure to show us what you create!

The best advice for anyone that has trouble in Sketcher is to keep the sketch simple. Do not try and make a single sketch that encompasses the entire model shape with all cuts and rounded or chamfered edges. Rather, create multiple sketches that are simple, with fewer entities. Fewer entities are easier to control when you start making design changes. Take this muffler model, for example:        The first solid geometry for this model started as this:        Followed by this:      Then this:        Simple sketches of few entities were created, and the solid geometry started to take shape. The sketches should consist of small bites of geometry, not the whole shape at once. For more on Sketching and other topics, check out PTC University's Creo: Fundamentals and Productivity Tools! 

  With the wide-spread use of additive manufacturing, you now have more options than ever before for part and assembly design. That’s because without the restrictions of traditional manufacturing, more intricate structures can now be used to optimize weight, strength, and even heat distribution.   (For an overall introduction, read our Beginner’s Guide to Lattice Structures in Additive Manufacturing.)   In a recent presentation from PTC University, Matt Huybrecht discussed and demonstrated new features in Creo that support lattice structures for those who want to use them. However, before you start, a few questions came up that we thought you might find interesting:   Can I do a structural analysis on stochastic lattices? YES! The DISPLAY of the geometry is that of simplified representation geometry, but the lattice geometry does contribute to mass properties calculations. Therefore, you can leverage it in structural analyses.   How is the additive manufacturi

Hello everyone and welcome to blog post #6 in this multibody blog series.   I got asked recently : How can I display a user-defined body parameter in the model tree? If you are interested in that as well, here is how you do it. Let’s walk through an example step-by-step.   Step 1) Let’s assign a body parameter (and let’s call it for example “MY_BODY_PARAM”)   Step 2) Open the Model Tree Columns display dialog   Step 3) Select the Type: Body Params     Step 4) You might notice that the list shows system parameters related to bodies (e.g. PTC_ASSIGNED_MATERIAL), but not the newly added user-defined parameter  Step 5) Manually enter the user-defined-parameter (in our example “MY_BODY_PARAM”) into the Name field     and click the double-arrow to move it into the displayed columns     Step 6) Click “OK” and ensure model tree columns are displayed. Now you should be able to see your body parameters as part of the displayed model tree

Hello everyone and welcome to blog post #7 in this multibody blog series. This post also attempts to answer another body parameter related question:How can I display, use or call-out a body parameter? If you want to call out a body parameter then you have to use the syntax as explained in the Creo help here.   &<param_name>:BID_<body_feature_ID> Or &<param_name>:BID_<body_userdefined_name>   Note: For bodies that have the default name (body 1, body 2, etc) you cannot use the system-defined default body name but you have to use the body’s Feature ID. (The reason is that the system-defined names such as body 1, body 2, etc are localized and translated into other languages and therefore not representing stable references across languages.)   Example: Let’s assume we have 2 bodies. Here their names and parameters list.     To call out the parameter “MY_BODY_INFO” for both bodies, we can now use the following for body 1 &MY_BODY

Hello everyone, I have created for you a whole series of Creo Welding tutorials:              

The Flexible Modeling Symmetry Recognition feature locates mirror-symmetrical geometry and builds new symmetry logic to the design intent. For example, the Symmetry Recognition feature is possible to use for Flexible Move.

With Flexible Modeling Edit Round feature you can easily provide fast editing and removal of round geometry. This video tutorial includes some examples of editing the radius value or removing the selected round geometry from the part.

Attached to this blog post is a short presentation and a video on the new enhancement to allow direct embedding of images into drawings in Creo 4.0.Any questions or feedback you have related to the ability to embed images in drawings should be provided as comments to the blog post.That will be the easiest way for me to keep track of the comments and also be able to provide timely responses to your questions. If you follow this post, you can be notified of those comments as well and be able to learn from what others are asking. I may also periodically update this post to add some new details or information related to this enhancement.Also, don't forget to follow the main blog post for 2D Detailing - which will have links to other 2D Detailing-related content 2D Detailing Home: Start Here!Additional details on this enhancement:By default, the image is not saved with the drawing file but will continue to appear as long as Creo can find the image file on disk. Since this Images tool in dra

The Flexible Substitute feature enables replace a selected surface with another and remove or recreate existing rounds automatically.

The Flexible Modeling Mirror feature enables you to mirror geometry about a reference plane. Note: Surfaces are automatically extended and rounds are recreated at the intersecting edges if they exist.

The Flexible Modeling Modify Analytic feature enables you to edit analytic geometry, such as cylinders, cones, spheres, and tori. In this video tutorial, you can learn the difference between Modify analytic feature and Flexible Offset.

The Flexible Modeling Offset feature provides the ability to offset geometry, extend the resulting surfaces to attach them to the surrounding geometry and recreate the existing rounds if needed.  

In this tutorial, you can learn How to define Boundary Blend feature

How to use sin function in a Sweep feature and How to manage shape by parameters and ProProgram  

Quick video tutorial - How to use Collapse feature    

In this tutorial, you can learn How to place UDF Ladder members on the pillars on 3D model of the roller coaster - El Toro Six Flags.  

Freestyle feature with Mirror dependent and independent modification in a few simple steps.  

In these tutorials, you can learn How to create a model of a roller coaster - El Toro Six Flags based on Picture. 3D modeling of Wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure I will share with you in a couple of tutorials.