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How to create and manage a Table Pattern   Sphere Table Pattern

Practical example - how to combine Flexible modeling with Surface and Solid modeling on imported geometry. Used features: Flexible Remove Feature, Boundary Blend, Extend, Copy and Paste Geometry, Merge, Solidify, Flexible Attach, Flexible Move, etc.

In this tutorial, you can learn How to create toroidal sweep and how it is possible to drive the shape by dimensions, relation and parameters.

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Here's the next set of tutorials in the series of Creo tips from our expert product managers.   Below you’ll find about 15 minutes of video how-tos to help you improve your CAD proficiency—whether you just started using Creo or you've been using it for years.   Ready to get started?   Make External References Independent of Their Source, by Default   Feature dependencies can be either local or external references. Local references relate to geometry in the model in which they were created. External references (or external dependencies) occur when you reference geometry (parts, subassemblies) outside the model in which they were created.   By default, external references depend on the model containing the geometry being referenced. The external feature depends on to the assembly where it was created, and every time you regenerate the parts or the assembly involved in the external reference, Creo Parametric looks for this feature’s references in the source par

In this series, our expert product managers are going through how-to Creo tips. Each bite-sized tutorial is less than 5 minutes long. It's a perfect opportunity to learn something new or get a refresher on a workflow you haven't used for a while.   Below you'll find about 15 minutes of video tips aimed at helping you improve your Creo proficiency.   Ready to get started?   Geometry Backups on the Fly   When you create external references among features in a design, local references to features in a part, or placement references in an assembly, reference creation and backup tools are provided for specifying system behavior.   In this tutorial, Arnaud van de Veerdonk, Creo Product Manager, shows you how to use Update Control functionality through, on-the-fly created, Geometry Backups.   Watch the tutorial:     Flexible Management of Item Visibility in MBD   When working in model-based definition (MBD), three schemes are available to manage th

Blog Post 01 -    I wrote a blog post about the topic of Multibody – Intro, Model tree interaction and What’s that default body doing? I figured it made sense to provide a more thorough explanation that would attempt to answer all the questions likely to come up. Check it out and if you have any additional questions/comments, add them under the blog post itself. Thanks! Martin (view in My Videos)   Back to Creo 7.0 Multibody Home: Start Here!

Multibody Info – Collection   Creo 7.0 - What’s new:  Multibody Design Creo 7.0 – Multibody Tutorials (7 tutorials around multibody use cases including demo models, step by step instructions, videos and more etc) Creo Multi-Body @ Creo 7.0 PTC Virtual Conference – Includes a Multibody Use Cases & Benefits overview presentation Liveworx  2020 presentation  Creo 7.0 Product Update Multibody Design - recording Liveworx  2020 presentation  Creo 7.0 Product Update Multibody Design - slides Liveworx 2020 presentation  Creo 7.0 Multibody Design - youtube CAD Conference October 2021 - Multibody Tipps & Tricks  / Adoption  / What to watch out for (replay) More to come   Back to the main blog  Creo 7.0/8.0+ Multibody Home: Start Here!

Attached please find a video on the exposure of Flexible Modeling tools in Sheet Metal. It focuses on selection and geometry modification tools that are available in regular part mode and had been adapted for the Sheet Metal environment to honor guidelines such as constant wall thickness and other specific rules. In particular note how Move and Remove refine the selection automatically and how other tools like substitute, offset, etc are only allowed for side surfaces. Pattern recognition and propagation are supported for operations such as move.   Have fun! Looking forward to your feedback.   Best regards..Martin

Here's your next set of how-to tips in the series of quick Creo tutorials presented by our expert product managers. Each bite-sized tutorial is just a few minutes long. It's a perfect opportunity to learn something new.   Take a look below at about 15 minutes of video tips to help you boost your Creo proficiency.   Let's get started.   Give Your Manikin a Backpack, a Hat, or a Beer   A manikin model is considered a standard Creo Parametric assembly. You can add ancillaries (sub-assemblies) to the manikin, like a backpack, tool, hat, etc. These help you test your design for ergonomic compatibility and other human-centric requirements.   Further, if the library doesn't contain what you need, you can design a custom item to be used with manikins.    In this tutorial, Arnaud van de Veerdonk, Creo Product Manager, shows you how to add ancillary objects to manikin models.     See Subtractive Manufacturing Toolpaths in the Model Tree   Your w

Here's the next set of quick Creo tutorials presented by our expert product managers. Each tutorial in this series is just a few minutes long. These tips are aimed at helping you learn a new skill. Or, for experienced users, helping you learn a new workflow to perform a skill you've been doing for years.   Below you’ll find about 15 minutes of video how-tos to help you improve your Creo proficiency.   Let's get started. Combining Simplified Reps and Augmented Reality for Lightweight Experiences   Simplified Representations allow you to control the amount of data retrieved for a component. These can be helpful for to publishing lightweight AR experience.   In this tutorial, Creo Product Manager, Luke Westbrook, shows you how to use simplified reps with your next AR experience.   Here's how: Using Sketch Region   You can create geometry containing extrude, revolve, fill, and sketch features  quickly using sketch regions. Using Sketch Region reduces the

We're offering a series of quick Creo tutorials presented by our expert product managers. Each of these tutorials are just a few minutes long. These bite-sized tips are a perfect opportunity to learn a new skill or ensure you're following best practices.   Below you’ll find about 15 minutes of video how-tos to help you boost your CAD know-how.   Let's get started.   Shrinkwrap All Quilts   When you create a Shrinkwrap feature, by default, Creo automatically analyzes all components in the assembly and determines which ones will be included in the shrinkwrap. This could result in subassembly quilts being excluded. However, you can use the Search Tool to help find and select all quilts in the assembly.   In this tutorial, Arnaud van de Veerdonk, Creo Product Manager, shows you how to use shrinkwrap to copy all quilts from all models in an assembly.   Watch the tutorial now:   Work with Custom Manikin Postures   You can test designs for ergonomic co

Have you downloaded Creo 4.0 yet? One tool you’ll want to start using right away is box selection, available throughout the product and in idle mode. With box select, you can make the selection by simply clicking and dragging, then invoke commands such as hide, for example. It’s easy to use, but in this post, our expert offers a few tips for making the most of box select.Creo 4.0 now includes 2D box selection throughout the product as a selection method in idle mode. You can now use 2D box selection for most of the tools that support object/ action workflows. Here are a few tips:• 2D box selection in Creo honors the selection filter settings and only selects the type of objects defined by the selection filter.• If you press and hold Ctrl while using box selection, then objects are added cumulatively to the selection.• To remove objects from the selection, press and hold Ctrl and then click the individual objects.• 2D box selection in Creo also uses common direction-specific behavior.o

There's more to this Easter egg than meets the eye.  This Easter Egg was created with a Mathcad Prime 6.0 Surface Plot, all within PTC Mathcad.   Download the attached Mathcad Prime file (EE.mcdx), manipulate the surface plot display, and see if you can find the hidden message.    h/t Anji Seberino!

Ready for another 15 minutes of Creo tips from our product manager experts?   In the videos below, you’ll see how to avoid pitfalls when adding components to a Model Tree, a faster way to reach your AR experiences, and tips for getting embossed text on curved surfaces.   Drag-and-Drop Without Restructuring the Model Tree   Normally when you drag-and-drop parts and subassemblies in the Model Tree, they're moved to wherever you drop them. However, restructuring components can lead to unwanted changes in the assembly structure.   However, you can change this behavior so Model Tree components are not restructured when you drag-and-drop components.   In this tutorial, Arnaud van de Veerdonk, Creo Product Manager, shows you how:     Bookmark Your AR Experiences   Reviewing an augmented reality (AR) experience of a Creo model over and over? Stop opening that experience using the link in your email. Instead, save a few steps by creating a bookmark that

Throughout April and May 2020, we rolled out a series of posts here on the Creo Community to help enhance your CAD skills 15 minutes at a time.   Visit this Creo Tips below for posts packed with new video tips and demos from our product experts. You’ll find step-saving guidance on topics such as mastering complicated rounds, embossing text on cylindrical surfaces, using sketch regions, and more.   Post 1 Copy geometry from multiple assembly components in a single feature. Quickly defeature a model to prepare for simulation. Creating advanced rounds. Adding rounds Post 2  Prevent drag and drop restructuring from the Model Tree. Bookmark an AR experience on your mobile device. Emboss text on a cylindrical surface.   Post 3  Create external feature references without depending on a source model. Place standard profile configurations in an assembly using AFX. More efficiently work with annotation elements in annotation features. Post 4 Use Shrink

As promised, here is Post 1 in the new series of Creo tips from our expert product managers.   Each post includes about 15 minutes of video how-tos aimed at skilling up your CAD proficiency—whether you’ve just started using Creo or consider yourself an old pro.   So much for the ado. Let’s jump in!   1. Getting Granular: Copy Geometry from Multiple Components You can pass any type of geometric reference information and user-defined parameters to and from parts, skeleton models, and assemblies using the Copy Geometry feature. Normally, you can only copy geometry (like curves, surfaces, or datum planes) from a single source component.   However, in this tutorial, Creo Product Manager, Arnaud van de Veerdonk shows you how to manually copy geometry from multiple assembly components using a single shrink wrap feature.   Watch how to do it:     2. Simplify Your Mesh by Removing Small Features … Quickly and Easily   Simplifying a model by removing smal

PTC's Brian Thompson, DVP and GM CAD segment, just announced some extraordinary measures that the company is taking to help make Creo customers as productive as possible during the COVID-19 crisis.   You can now get: Extra help with accessing licenses when working remotely, so everybody can reach their software. Free online demos with our popular product managers. Free courses from PTC University for all users. And more Details here: https://www.ptc.com/en/cad-software-blog/business-continuity-thompson

In some cases, you may not want Import Validation notifications when opening components in Creo Unite. For example, a model may have known issues, but you still want it in Creo for reference or for placements indicators.   Many users asked us for a way to toggle those notifications off (and on) after a model had been opened or imported. With Creo 6 or later, now you can.   With import validation notifications disabled, you don’t receive a report of failed validation in the Notification Center, or an indication of failed validation in the Model Tree. Here’s what you need to know to set your default to enable/disable these notifications:   To Enable or Disable Validation for Individual Components   If you want to disable or enable import validation notifications for individual components, right-click the component in the Model Tree and select Import Validation.    Image: Enabling import validation notifications for a component from the Model Tree   Not

Hello, Is there a config setting that controls where versioned file backups are saved using a relative file path?   Ideally, when I hit ctrl-S, a new file without a version number would be saved in the working directory, and the versioned file would be saved to ./archive. I'm always purging the versioned files to keep my working directory cleaned up, but then if I need them, they're already gone. If I could automatically keep them in an archive folder, that would help my workflow.

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Working with model-based definition (MBD)? Here are a few features that simplify the handling of child annotations, based on the status of their parent annotations. You can find them in Creo 6.0 and later. Take a look:   To Exclude Annotations Based on Parent Status   When a parent feature is no longer available, you can exclude child annotations from your design and graphics based on the parent feature’s status and detail option.   Suppression of parent feature using the mini toolbar as a trigger to exclude child annotations. Child annotations may be excluded when: The parent feature is being excluded by simplified representation or family table instance. The parent feature is being suppressed. The parent feature is being deleted. The parent section was deactivated, and its section hatching is also hidden. You can further configure what child annotations you want to exclude from the model. To do this, go to File > Prepare > Model Properties > Detail Options t

One of the benefits of additive manufacturing is that it lets you manufacture complex shapes that would otherwise prove difficult or impossible to produce with traditional processes. Imagine sending these models to be injection molded:But with additive manufacturing, lattice structures like these are easy to produce. And that’s good news for engineers and designers who want to create strong parts with a fraction of the weight of a solid piece. A lattice with thick walls and small cell sizes can save weight, but still withstand large forces. For other parts, a more “airy” lattice structure can offer just the right support without adding much weight.In short, lattice structures in the era of additive manufacturing offer powerful new design options for product developers.That’s why, in Creo 4.0, we introduced support for lattices. Now you can design, optimize, and validate these intricate structures, all from within your 3D CAD software.In this post, PTC product manager Jose Coronado expl

Applicable releases: Creo Parametric   description : A video demo in how to remove the outer and inner cut line paths on a cut line milling sequence using a helical scan type in Creo Parametric Unable to play video. Please try again later.(view in My Videos)

A not-quite-right user interface can be a real nuisance day after day. But, an interface that’s just right for Sally might be all wrong for Tomas. Achieving true “one-size-fits-all” status is probably impossible. That’s why the Creo Parametric model tree is customizable. After all, your software is kind of like that Journey song … you know … “Any way you want it, that’s the way you need it. Any way you want it.”   Here are some tips for getting the model tree just how you want it.   Pick Your Columns and Column Widths.   Do you need to see more parameters in the model tree? Or, do you need to minimize columns and expand the graphics area, so you have more room to work? No problem. Here’s how to do it.   At the top of the model tree, click Settings and select Tree Columns. Add/remove displayed columns. Customize the width of the model tree, as well as the width of the other columns, using the dialog window (shown below) or by dragging the column separators in the mo