Creo+ and Creo Parametric

In assembly mode I have added a Jlink app to select then you right click on a part.Can I send the part name to this Jlink, so I can let Jlink work with this part?  

Creo 5.0.4 Let's say I have an assembly "W".  In the default appearance state, all the subcomponents are grey & in a new appearance state, lets call it "ASW1", all the subcomponents are various colors. Now let's say I have an assembly "A" which contains assembly "W".  The default appearance state for assy "A" uses the default appearance state for assy "W". I want to create a new appearance state for assy "A" that uses assy "W" appearance state ASW1.  How do I do this?

Currently in the process of trying to convert CREO drawing to SOLID edge drawings. Online I found some solutions, but they are all outdated. Therefore, my question if anybody knows where to find current migration tools for this problem.  Thank you in advance!  

Good morning everyone, I've been working on a puzzle recently, and I could use some help from the forum. I want to make a saved mold analysis feature to monitor the clearance between the waterlines and the geometry of the cavity block (see attached part model).  The tricky bit is that my company differentiates between clearance to cavity and shutoff geometry versus clearance to adjacent features like threaded holes for assembly.  In general, the idea is that the clearance between the waterlines and the cavity geometry should be a minimum of 5/8", whereas the clearance between the waterlines and any other feature should be a minimum of 3/8". Right now, I can do a global mold analysis feature and pay close attention to the coloring to determine if my clearance is okay for the specific features I'm checking, or I can specify a single reference surface to measure clearances from.  What I'd really like to do is make intent reference objects to collect the surfa

I am using Creo Parametric 7.0 7.0.2.0I used a multi-body part to create individual part file geometries. In the multi-body part, I changed all of the bodies to construction bodies. I assembled the multi-body part I used to create the individual parts into the assembly so I can use the datum planes in that multi-body part to assemble duplicate individual part files I created from that multi-body part so I did not need to duplicate the datum plane structure in the assembly, and I would need to update in both places if the structure or dimensions changed. Since the multi-body parts are construction bodies, they will not influence the real assemblies individual part files or the assembly items like mass properties and can easily hide the multi-body part. The individual part files derived from the multi-body parts allow me to assign material properties to them but when I try to get mass properties of the individual part under analysis it is greyed out. Also, all the derived multi-body part

Dear all Creo Users,Sometimes I encounter fatal error in creo after some repetitive failed attempt of selecting or some unknown reasons. I have used the searchbar and searched the ptc community for fatal error topic and find that some experts are saying about traceback. What are tracebacks? Are these trail files? Can it help to recover part,assembly files?How can I recover my parts and assemblies and drawings in exact form after this error occurs. Usually ptc creo software completely shuts down after I click ok on fatal error.Any suggestions, ideas, discussions regarding this will be helpful.With regards,Soumya

We are wanting to add image files to some drawing but the "Insert Object" option does not work. All I get is an image placeholder that links me to the image but I don't see the actual image on the drawing.Any ideas?ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

It used to be that you needed REX to solidify an imported facet feature, but I'm wondering if this can now be done by importing mesh geometry into a Freestyle feature and then solidifying the geometry? This might be underplaying the power of the updated Freestyle feature, but it would be pretty handy to be able to quickly import and immediately edit files for which only facet data is available.

Hi everybodyI'm a french student and I use Pro Engineer Wildfire 4.0 with a student license for a CAD project.I would like to save my .prt files in step 3D, but i can't choose this file extension when I save my project ...Does anyone have a solution ? Is there an extension available to perform that ?I browsed the internet but found nothing.Thanks for your help This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Hello. I model my own car in Style Tool and face a small problem. I don't understand why does curve direction flip after dropping it on a surface? Here is a picture to make it more clearly for you.In this picture, there are directions (End 1, End 2) of all curves I need that are marked by arrows.        So, my question is: How to make the direction of the projected curve (the arrow of yellow color) from up to down. Thank You in advance. 

I had my license file on a drive (called D drive) that I formatted last year. When I run setup and select the license file on my C drive it says it's valid and I press finish, but when I run Creo Parametric  it pops up the "License request failed for feature" and below that shows the "Requesting PROE_Essentials" and "D:\...dat (-1) Cannot find license file." So it's not updating the license file location it seems. Where is it storing the license location string? Is there a manual way to update that without uninstalling and reinstalling the whole program? (Not sure if uninstalling would fix this). Creo 5 is installed on C and the license file is on my desktop on C along with the setup files. I have no other drives connected anymore. I read that there was a C:\ProgramData\PTC folder but I don't see any Licensing folder in there. Just a Creo and QualityAgent folder.

Perhaps I may have inquired on this years ago, but I am wanting to find the center of gravity points for a series of sketches which will be strung together as a reference for a Swept Blend. I do not own BMX so I can't directly enter the needed points in the model. Is there a best way of determining the sketch center of gravities and place the corresponding point in the sketch? In the past I used a work around in which I had to solve for each of the X, Y and Z values with an extrude to each section and separately enter the X,Y and Z values.  In Creo 7 it is seeming to be more of a challenge, but I likely eventually will figure out how to use the slow method.  By any chance is there a quicker way to do this? 

I looked around for a solution but to no avail. Changing the config.pro pen_line_weight has no effect on my drawings. I tried using a pen table but did not get the results I was looking for. Using the pen table (I think) means that all geometry lines printed with pen 1 will all have the same line thickness. This means that, not only geometry lines but drawing border lines will be the same thickness... which I don't want. PTC TPI 117022 suggests changing the line weight config.pro option which will not overwrite user-defined thickness. I have made sure that I have no table.prt files, the option to use pen tables is removed from config.pro and the option to use pen tables for PDF is removed. Lines that have user-defined thickness print with correct weight but no matter what number I put in to the pen 1 and pen 2 options, geometry and dimension lines are not affected (too thick and too thin respectively). Currently using Creo2.0 m50. What am I missing?   Thanks all.

I am using Creo Parametric - Release 8.0 (connected) 8.0 8.0.0.0Our config.pro has view_scale_format ratio_colon (1:1) which does not seem to be mapping across correctlyIn Prepare>Drawing Options>Detail Options> view_scale_format is default to decimal* (1.000)However, '&scale' displays a fraction (1/1)Has anyone faced something similar to this? We can manually work around changing the view_scale_format manually every time, but would like this to happen from the config.pro file as expected.   Thanks in advance

I am using Creo Parametric - Release 7.0 (connected) 7.0 7.0.3.0I have a round part with a "flow channel" that I am trying to rough out trying to pick mill. My work around is to use 4axis trajectory with full size ball endmills and axis shift tools paths.Any ideas? I have tried cutline however, Can only get the bottom of the radius pick milled.  

I am using Creo Parametric - Release 6.0 (connected) 6.0 6.0.1.0How to define the use of the external graphic card (quadro p4000) instead of the UHD gpu processor?

Hello all,   I would be interested to know if any of you use osifont, a free font based on technical lettering (ISO 3098):https://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont   If so, what are your experiences with it?Are all the characters you need (e.g. special characters, diacritics, umlauts) supported cleanly?Do PDF exports from Creo Parametric provide a clean result?   Regards, Domenic

Hello to everybody.Is there some way to use collapse feature in sheet metal module? if not, how is possible to do something similar? Thanks!!

I have a part model with PMIs and I want to put a drawing frame with model information in there like this:I would like to save the model information somewhere like in  and the information should also be exported with a JT or STEP file.How do I do this?Thanks!

I am trying to find a way to take a model (part or assembly) and use datums to orient the model based off a list of angles to get the projected (frontal) area and then save or export those values as a list. Is there a way of doing this? I have several hundred orientations to perform so I would need a way to automate.

I know that GPUs like a 3080 aren't supported in Simulation live right now - but the interaction is really stange:Initial click on Sim Live: ~5 min loading for the libarysClick on Start Simulate: 5 more minutes of loadong (1 CPU is used ~50%) then the simulation starts and is done in 3 secs - when you increase accuracy it only takes the usual time to simulate immediately (5s) and is doneAre there already fixes? When will the support be added?Thx in advance

I am using Creo Parametric - Release 4.0 (connected) 4.0 M140I have an assembly with two parts (X & Y) part X is used in a family table. Part Y is assembled to X using datum planes in part X that are set to rotate 180° in part X's family table members. The planes and model Y rotate 180° correctly in the assembly but the cutout created in the assembly of X & Y is not rotated in the family member (changes to part Y appear in the cutout but the defined rotation does not happen). This worked very well in previous versions and works in 4.0 IF the cutout was created in an older version. If the cutout is recreated in 4.0 it does not work. Added zip file with model example of 4.0 behavior. 

Hi,   We calculate the outline size of the model through the "ProSolidOutlineCompute" function. In the case of a cylinder, two values among the outer sizes of X, Y, and Z are the same.However, if only two values of X, Y, and Z are the same, there is an error in judging it as a cylinder.Any ideas on how to determine if a shape is circular?   Thanks , Warm Regards. SeonHo Cha.

Hi all, looking for some assistance.I have a need to use the name of a part in a family table, specifically in a cell of a "Reference Model" column.  The name needs to be from an instance of the part derived from this same family table.  The kicker is, family table editor allows adding the name BUT IT DOES NOT UPDATE if the instance is renamed.   The generic name at the top of the column updates as expected.  Below are the steps used to initial get the instance name into the cell.  Is there another way?  I've tried setting a parameter equal to the instance's part or assembly name and inserting the parameter in the family table cell.  This does not work, even though the value of the parameter updated correctly the family table apparently does not read the parameters value only the text of the parameters name.  Tried using PTC's parameter names for parts, assemblies and common names to no avail.  F.Y.I. I know this "Reference Model" colum

I recently installed Creo 8 Student Edition and found that my references are not being automatically updated between sketches on the same part. I have been using Creo for a few years, so I know what the normal behavior should be (Ex: edge moves that is referenced in sketch -> sketch updates to reflect new edge location). For some reason when the part geometry changes, the sketches that reference that geometry are not updating. No amount of refreshing changes this, but I can manually update references by deleting and remaking the reference, or selecting a different (equivalent) edge/axis/vertex/surface/etc. when available. Creo seems to recognize that the identity of the reference is the same, but not that it has moved. Are there any settings that I can try adjusting?Should I try reinstalling? Please let me know if you need more information.