Creo+ and Creo Parametric

I am new to Creo Object toolkit. I had some experience using Creo customization using VBA, that too few years back.   Problem: I want to create a section in assembly by picking a face of one part and want to know section of other part which is intersecting first part. I used sample example available in OTKXCrossSection.cxx Issue:  1. When I run the program and select the face of part as reference for PlanarXSection , it gives error as 'XToolkitBadInputs' 2. If I select the datum from the part, it creates section without any output. If I edit, it shows menu manager-Feature fail.   Can someone please help me understanding what is wrong with below code.   Below is the code I am using: void CreatePlanarXSection(){pfcSelection_ptr refSelection; pfcSession_ptr Session = pfcGetProESession(); wfcWSession_ptr wSession = wfcWSession::cast(pfcGetProESession()); try{if (refSelection == 0){pfcSelectionOptions_ptr refSelopts = pfcSelectionOptions::Create("datum,surface");refSelop

I was looking to add this into my drawing table, but it is not working for me. I have found online the following solution, but it is not working for me. Here is what i get when i try.   if "fam.inst.param.value" != "0"$convert = "fam.inst.param.value" * 25.4errorInvalid data type combination at right side of expressionendif   If I add in the relation as shown in this link, i get this message.   If fam_inst_param_value<>0errorInvalid symbol 'fam_inst_param_value' found.convert=fam_inst_param_value*25.4Endif   Any help would be appreciated. I am using Creo 3.0.

I'm seriously about to lose my mind. I have wasted the better part of two weeks trying to run analysis on a mechanism under different load conditions/positions.   When I started the analysis I had no issues setting up and running the first few conditions and AutoGEM created a mesh with zero warnings/errors. After changing the position and load conditions a few times, AutoGEM will no longer mesh. It will either crash with an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLOATION error (despite setting graphics win32_gdi), get to 99% and say it can't complete the mesh, or start at 99% and work downward to 80% or so before it quits and says it can't mesh.   I have tried the following things to get the mesh working again. Some times it works, but most of the time it doesnt: Double check that there are no interferences/gaps, geometry issues, or tolerance issues. Reorder the components or suppress components. Manually delete the mesh files from the working directory. Restart Creo and restart the computer. E

Hello. I have written a program to explore an assembly, by connection to an open PTC Creo session (using of ProEngineerConnect()). This program uses the function ProSolidFeatVisit(visit_model_cb) to visit each component of the main assembly. An the called function visit_model_cb() uses itself the ProSolidFeatVisit() function recursively. So, the entire assembly is visited. My probem is that I can not detect the hidden components, in visit_model_cb(). I tried ProFeatureVisibilityGet(), ProFeatureStatusGet(), ProAsmcompVisibilityGet() but all these functions return true for the visibility of the visited component, even if this component is hidden in PTC Creo. I would appreciate any help to solve my problem. Thank you. Best regards.  

Model Axes not showing up in Drawing Tried turning on/off in View  Tried changing Config to yes & all sub Tried hide/show in Model tree   I can see them briefly if I rotate View Type with the Angles toggle but they disappear after clicking OK. all other datum feature show up fine 

What config in the drawing config file controls whether a "Limits" dimension is Lower-Higher (side by side) vs Higher/Lower (above and below)?        

First I'd like to apologise if this question has been already asked by someone else but I didn't find similar. I've got a question about using parameters for dimensions. I understand meaning of parameters and also know how to use it. I know I should set parameters for some informations which can be useful in Drawing (e.g. inside drawing table) later (like material parameters, part/asm name, etc.) and I heard that I also should set parameters for some type of dimensions. The problem is I cannot find out in which situations should I do it. The only tip/answer I found is that I should set parameters for dimensions that can be changed in time. But... all dimensions can be changed while working on project actually. So, could you please explain me when to set parameters for dimensions?Also if you have some another informations about parameters and its using I'd be grateful for giving it.Thank you very much in advance! 

I currently have a config pro setting for a web browser homepage. That works fine. What I am looking for is the ability to define the web location of a secondary tab so that the tab shows a defined web page. If there was a way to define a web favorite in the internal browser that would also be acceptable. 

Hello everyone, I am Victor from Spain. At our company we are thinking to start using family tables to manage our family assemblies. However, we are still reluctant in how Creo manage future instance modifications. As we are using a PLM to manage our documentation, we are worried about the fact that instance can be modified without not even opening the generic. For example, having a generic assembly (ASM0001)saved with 2 different instances (ASM0001_INST1 and ASM0001_INST1) on the BBDD . It is possible that in the future a colleague could modify and save the ASM0001_INST1 not modifying the generic and making a discrepancy on our BBD.   With that exposed, our question is: Does exist a way to block or prevent instance modifications out of the generic?   Thanks for your support!         

Hi, Is it possible to attach a parameter to a particular part / set of parts that is context-sensitive within an assembly? We want to add a parameter that specifies if a part is bought by us / manufactured by us / bought in as part of a sub-assembly. There are some places where the same P/N (a clinch stud) is bought in as parts of a purchased assembly, but the same creo part is also bought individually by us and installed by us, so the parameter needs to be different for each instance of each part in each assembly. 

We are using Creo Paramatric for 3D modelling.   1. In Creo Illustrate, while importing file in .pvz fromat; we observe colour difference in some of the components.   2. and while importing in .asm format some components disappears in eBOM as well as sBOM.

I have installed Creo 6 in my system, but facing a lagging while doing part modeling not able to select the datum plane for creating a sketch, Earlier I was using Creo 5 and I have not faced such an issue with it. Please help

How do you do this? We tend to make parts off of other parts that are similar so it would come in handy to be able to attach drawings to models. When I tried making a copy of a drawing it still kept it attached to the old model. I tried using add model under legacy migration but it did nothing. Thanks for any help.

needing some advice, our drawings are set up with rev table that appear to be a standard table. is there a way to hide rows from this table without deleting them? or is there a specific rev table template? i previously used SW and they have a dedicated rev table with this and more functionality. thanks

If and IFX screw exists in my working dictionary/session putting in the screw is normal, it happens fast without problem. But if IFX has to generate to model from .dat file it takes a lot of time. We both tested if the .dat files were on local drive or network drive there, but is not real  difference. The problem seems to happen if the working dictionary is full of stuff, which happens a lot since we use large assemblies   Does anyone else has this same problem? Or any solution? Or at least and explanation why this could happen?

I distinctly remember someone sharing a hack that would allow multi-line text to be passed via a parameter into a note or table cell.  I've scoured the community and I can't find it, but I think that may be more a function of how the search tool works here.  It was something along the lines of creating a multi-line note, referencing the note with a parameter, and then using that parameter on the drawing.  Does anyone remember the exact steps to make this work?  Thanks.

In Creo Illustrate 7, besides the pop up window for the model orientation, is there way to have the orientation cube on screen to make it faster to orient the model?

Hello, can you straighten a hose for use in a drawing?  Thanks.

Hi All   I am trying to identify zone location for note ProDrawingPosToLocgrid. For this purpose, note location is input. Location I got from API ProDtlnoteLineEnvelopeGet. As it is in screen coordinate, I tried to use ProDrawingSheetTrfGet and ProPntTrfEval. But everytime, ProDrawingPosToLocgrid is saying Row as A and Col as 1 and it is not changing position. Any thought would be of great help.

Does there exist a good tutorial on creating custom IFX libraries and uploading them to Windchill?   Thanks,   Bob

Hi,    I’m having a lot of trouble importing some legacy data to Creo Parametric 6. We previously used Solidworks as our primary CAD tool and had some horrible modelling practices that lead to some very large assemblies that can’t easily be broken down for ease of importing. When we use the file > open > import option on the .sldasm files Creo becomes unresponsive with 0% cpu usage. I’ve left it running over the weekend on one file but it’s still not imported. For comparison, I tried exporting the assembly in Solidworks as a STEP AP214 file and that imports reasonably quickly into Creo. However, that is not a sensible strategy for importing all of our legacy data, as Solidworks Task scheduler is too unreliable to mass export STEP files of all the required assemblies.  Does anyone have any advice for how to import large assemblies like this into Creo from Solidworks (some 2016 data and some 2007 data)?

with the new multi-body modeling in creo7, it would be nice to have an option for "create assembly from bodies" option similar to how there is "create part from body" option when you click on a body in the model tree.   this should invoke an automated "create part from body" for each body in the bodies tree.  the new part name should be imported from the body name.  a new assembly should automatically be created with the option to define the name.  All of the newly created part files should be auto assembled with default constraint.

Hi alls,One of my client asked me if it's possible to share a Creo screen in live for speaking about a part I'm designing.What would be a software for doing that ?Skype ??? anything else ?I'm suspecting that 3D display (with accelerated graphic card) should be a problem via web connection.No easy to test by myself before visio-conference we have to plan...Thanks for any advice.Dom

Hello all, I have a model that can have one of 2 different features that are controlled by a parameter and proprogram in the model. On the drawing side I have created 2 drawing states to add the unique dimensions to the drawing (one for each feature option). The drawing program looks like the following:   IF FLARE_FINISH:0 == NOSET STATE STARTENDIF IF FLARE_FINISH:0 == YESSET STATE FINISHENDIF   where FLARE_FINISH:0 is the parameter in the model that controls the features in the model.   The day that I set this all up everything worked fine. I could switch the parameter back and forth and the model and dimensions would all change as expected. The next day upon opening the same files, one of the drawing states will not properly execute. The program says that is successfully parsed and if i edit the state and run the commands everything looks right until i regen the drawing and everything in the state disappears. The drawing program is used to set a few other states. &nbsp

Hello,   We work with PTC CAD for long time. Three years ago we moved from ProE Wildfire 5 to Creo 3 and work with it. In our system we currently have files create/modify with only ProE Wildfire 5 and other create/modify with Creo 3. We plan to move soon to Creo 5. As we know it will work perfectly well between Creo 3 and Creo 5 (at least when we move from 3 to 5) but my question is: what about if we want to open / modify with Creo 5 some files saved with ProE wildfire 5 10years ago ? Do we need to re-open and re-save all files from wildfire 5 to Creo 3 before move to creo 5 to be sure everything will work ?   regards Cedric