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Hello community. Looking for someone who's walked my particular path before. I'm deep in the docs and forum posts, and I'm looking for a friend to lead me back out of the forest. 🙂 I work in airplane design. I am investigating options for a workflow where data about the final skin of an aerodynamic surface (i.e. wing, aileron, canard, etc) is generated and analyzed outside of Creo. This happens in an open source tool called OpenVSP. The aero surfaces can be exported in STEP and IEGS. I prefer IEGS because I can put them in a text editor and read them to be sure of exactly what I'm getting. For example, for the fuselage, I have 8 IEGS entities of type 128, "Rational B-Spline Surface". They are arranged around the four quarters of the forward half and aft half of the teardrop-shaped fuselage. When I import into Creo 10 with "default" import settings, things "seem" to work fine. But our aero designer is suspicious of the various "fixes", "reparameterization", and "simplify

Using Creo 8.0.8.0 lattice tool I have problems with generating lattices. I am replacing a volume with lattice and works well when I have "standard setting". Starting volume: Problems start with Quasi-radial cell propagation. Only one layer of lattice is generated in the volume.I tried to play with the Build direction and coordinate systems for the lattice definition (including first cell position), but nothing helps. Looks like the position of the original cell is not controllable with radial cell propagation. Did anyone experienced similar problems? also no labels for Lattice or AM tools    

Is Creo Sketch, the free sketching app still available? The download link that I know does not work: https://support.ptc.com/products/creo/sketch/download.htm   Thanks in advance Jörg    

Dear all, I am working on a drawing in Creo 8.0.8.0 and I can't get my hole-notes to show up under "show annotation" I selected the features and the complete model but no hole-notes are showing up.In the model I can look at the "note" in the hole feature and it is present. What am I overlooking??     

Hello,I'm wondering if it's possible to extract all mapkeys from a config.pro file and transform it to csv or xls file.In order to sort all of them (mapkeys keys and descriptions).I would like to clean all my config.pro files and test.Thanks !

Is there a way to remove the MathCad  Express watermark from a printed MathCad document?   

Hello PTC Team,I installed Mathcad prime 9.0 student edition, also made the licensing and now if I start up Mathcad the loading window opens, then it closes and the program doesn’t start up.

Is it possible to solve the regression analysis problem in attach (Mathcad 15 & Prime 6) by changing guess values? Or the formula does not approach such set of date?

I would like my BOM to reflect the order in which I assembled the components in my model.  How do I do this? 

I have been trying to build the protk_install_example solution provided by PTC and facing the errors shown in the screenshots below. I am using Creo 7.0.2.0 and VS19 to build the solution. The makefile is defined as follows, # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------# File NameMAKEFILENAME = make_install# Machine TypePRO_MACHINE_TYPE = x86e_win64# Executable namesEXE = pt_inst_test.exeEXE_DLL = pt_inst_test.dll# Pro/Toolkit Source & Machine Loadpoint (EXTERNAL USE - DEFAULT)PROTOOL_src=$(PROE_INSTALL_PATH)/protoolkitPROTOOL_SYS = $(PROTOOL_SRC)/$(PRO_MACHINE_TYPE)# Pro/Toolkit Source & Machine Loadpoint (PTC INTERNAL USE)#PROTOOL_src=$(PTCSRC)/protoolkit#PROTOOL_SYS = $(PTCSYS)ICU_PATH = $(PROTOOL_SYS)/obj# Include File PathsINCS = -I. -I$(PROTOOL_SRC)/protk_appls/includes -I$(PROTOOL_SRC)/includes# Compiler FlagsCC = clMACH = -DPRO_MACHINE=36 -DPRO_OS=4CCFLAGS = -c -GS -fp:precise -D_WSTDIO_DEFINED -D_USING_V110_SDK71_CFLAGS = $(CCFLAG

I am using Creo Parametric Release 2.0 and DatecodeM250I'm encountering a fatal error crashing Creo. I opened a case about a month ago and tried to trouble shoot it myself with PTCs website and waited to see if it would resolve itself. But I think I need some human assistance. After more use it looks like it's only sheet metal parts, converting something to sheet metal that crashes Creo.Here are the errors that I faced-------------------------------------------------The trace creation timestamp is: Fri Sep 01 08:29:37 23The executable build timestamp is: Fri Sep 22 05:16:12 17The datecode is: 2017170The pro machine type is: x86e_win64The process ID is: 16112The traceback type is : CRASHThe logger exit status is: 00003-------------------------------------------------Exception EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION has occurred in the thread 16320.Main Thread 16320=====================0x00007FF7EB6642CF NULL (NULL:0) (xtop:0x00007FF7E8080000) ( 0x48b88790, 0x1a1e7470, 0x1a1e7488, 0x0 )0x00007FF7EB66

I need to create text on a surface. Simple enough, but the text needs to be like this:VERTICALI could create each letter individually, then align them and space them to make it look okay, but is there a more elegant solution? In short, is there a way to create a text string that is vertical but has the letters oriented in the "normal" way?Also, oddly enough, if you use the ISOFONT, the capital "I" is not centered on the letter. The text geometry is offset a bit to the right side. Weird.

I'm using Creo 2 M100 and recently upon startup there appears a script error message that requests a yes or a no to allow scripts. After several attempts of clicking on yes or no the message goes away but there is obviously a software glitch somewhere.How do I fix this? I'm no tech software person so would like a clear answer if anyone can let me know thanks!I am aware this has ocurred to other people on this forum but cannot understand how it was removed.  

I am using Creo Simulate Release 9.0 and Datecode9.0.0.0upon start, Creo Simulate will regenerate the model, but copied-geometry seems invisible to Simulate, causing regeneration failure.. One solution i figured out is to right-click on the copied-geometry, change 'update control' to 'manual..', which tentatively solve the problem but isn't a decent solution. Wondering if there are other solutions?

Hi,   I've got a very large .pts file (more than a billion points). When trying to import it inside Creo Parametric, it doesn't seem to recognise it. Is there a limit on how many points it can handle? Or is there a better way of doing this?   Currently, I'm using a different software to view these points. This is fine for viewing but when I try to export my design/model into it, that's when it gets annoying as I lose sketches, datums, etc. and it is very time-consuming to constraint/place my model inside the points cloud.   I'd appreciate any help on this.    Cheers!

Hi all,   I am trying to use a Decal to model the latices of a forster unico profile:   I have managed to create a transparant decal and apply it to the model, but if I resize the model, the decal needs to be resized.   Is there any way to drive the X Scale of a Decal to the size of a model with a relation?  

Hello All,I have a query related to Annotation Planes. Can we automatically set the Annotation Planes when we select COMBINATION STATE? I have 5 combination states (7A, 7B, 7C, 7D, 7E ) with specific orientations. I also have 5 Annotation Planes(7A, 7B, 7C, 7D, 7E ). When I have to give 3D annotation in any Combination State I always need to select the respective Annotation Plane for proper text and dimension orientation.  So I want to know if I select 7A combination state, Is there any way to set Annotation planes 7A to get selected automatically? Thank you.Best regards,Atul Ghadge.

I am using Creo Parametric Release N/A and DatecodeN/AHello,I need multi-language annotation. I saw it from youtube and blogs. But only CREO elements/direct has this option.I can't find it from CREO parametric 3.0 ~10.0I want to use annotation ENG and KOR language together.Please let me know how I can do it.Or please let me know where I can find annotation file. So I can modify it....

I purchased a student version of PTC Mathcad Express Prime 9.0.0.0 and have not received the product code necessary to activate it for the year.  I am using the 30 day free trial at the moment.  All of the links to "find my product code" send me to Direct River Solutions where they say they can't find the order - but I am using Mathcad and have the receipt.

The examples using Solve Blocks show a plain box with Guess Values, Constraints, and the appropriate Solver inside, but the box is otherwise "undecorated". When I lay down a Solve Block, it has labels on the side for "Guess Values", "Constraints", and "Solver". If I remove unneeded space inside the Block, the labels on the side "ride up" so they overlay each other and look just plain ugly.How do you suppress these labels so that the Solve Block looks like the blocks in the Help Files, i.e. just a box with no labels? I looked and couldn't find it in the Ribbon (I may just have missed it), and right-clicking or left-clicking the Block didn't seem to work (unless I failed to find the Magic Spot).

As per the original Post.    I believe I have the premium version of Mathcad PTC Prime 9 - but "ctrl" + "enter" never worked for me either.    Actually, as far as I know, I have Professional version of Mathcad PTC Prime.  M > About > just says I have Verison Prime 9.0.0.0.  I pay something like $600 a year for the license.    Anyway "ctrl" + "enter" doesn't work for me for whatever reason.

Well, being an Olde Timer here, I remember when "Layout/Notebook" (If I remember the proper terms) was the hot ticket method promoted by PTC.  Then they went to the "Master Model" method.  Then there's the "Skeleton" method.  I used the "Master" model technique a couple times in the early 2000's, but had some issues with it, especially with layers.  Then I switched to using Skeleton models, and while I had some issues with layers in the early 2010's, it seems to work now.  I DON'T like the fact that (at least from what I remember - that may have changed) the Skeleton doesn't always travel with the related submodels like the Master model always did.  So, I use the Skeleton method now because of the issues I had using the Master model method.   What are you guys using and why?  We're writing a spec for our group regarding modeling practices and dwgs, and we want to include top-Down design.   Grazie!

I have been trying to remove model from drawing but message I get is 'can not delete model with views using it'. I ensured to remove all views related to the model,

Hello, I am posting a question because there is a blockage while playing the toolkit.When using ProUIListSelectednamesGet among functions, the result value is stored only with the first letter of the list name.Does anyone have a solution to this problem?The details are attached as a photo.   void ListMoveButtonClicked(char* dialog, char* component, ProAppData data){char* dialogName = "test2";  // 대화 상자 이름char* listName = "In_list";      // 목록 컴포넌트 이름int nSelections;                // 선택된 항목 수char** selections = NULL;              // 선택된 항목의 이름 배열wchar_t wideStr[100]; ProError status = ProUIListSelectednamesGet(dialogName, listName, &nSelections, &selections); if (status == PRO_TK_NO_ERROR) { wchar_t* temp = ProStringToWstring(wideStr, selections[0]); for (int i = 0; i < num_files; ++i) { if (wcscmp(w_char_mdl_name[i], L"DRW0002") == 0){iMessa

I see that yesterday PTC released a Creo View mobile app for the Apple products, but no mention of Android, which has a much larger user base. Is there any intention of developing one for Android?