Creo+ and Creo Parametric

I'm looking for a simple way to toggle all the components in my simplified to be the opposite display. Master rep items set to exclude and exclude items set to master rep. I have an assembly the way I want it but I have A LOT of trial and error / options / unneeded components that would like to get rid of or evaluate their need.  

I've been struggling to get Creo 5.0 to cooperate with section views in my assembly model drawing.  The assembly model contains a shrinkwrap.  When I initially created the drawing, Creo was able to create section views with no problems.  But now that I've gone back and made modifications/additions to the assembly model, Creo is suddenly failing several of my previously created section views.  Mind you, not all of my section views are failing, only a couple.   Creo is giving me the familiar error message, "Cross-section creation in "new_view_XX, on sheet X aborted".  I've tried all of the suggestions I've seen in these message boards to no avail; 1. Making sure the "Include quilts" box is checked. 2. Offsetting a plane from the section plane.   In the drawing configuration, I have the following set: 3. show_quilts_in_total_xsecs is set to "yes" 4. crossec_type is set to "new_style". I've also tried switching the values for these two options and nothing

I have a drawing format that I am creating. I have it all set to go but when I add it to a drawing, the only way to get the text to fill in is to add "&" to the text in the pulldown. How do I get the "&" to be included in the symbol so I don't have to add it all the time? Thanks.

Design and Assembly of Rocker Bogie Suspension system     Dynamic Analysis in Creo - Rocker Bogie Suspension system In this video tutorial, you can learn how to prepare your assembly for Dynamic Analysis and define all necessary conditions.

Hello everyone I have a simple part with an internal diameter driven by a family table (changing it from 13 to 28 mm, see picture) Is it possible to have one manufacturing file updating the A diameter and consequently the TPs of the internal part? - holemaking (different drill diameters) - internal turning area (different boring tools)  - different distance from the center for the profile used for cutting the part     Thanks  

I want to extrude away some threads on hardware models that I imported as STEP files.  When I go to do this the "remove material" option is grayed out.    Questions: Why can't I extrude cut imported geometry? Is there an error in the model that needs to be repaired before I can do this? Is there another way? Thanks, Bob

Admittedly, "breaking" relationships between Copy Geometry / External References (model / skeleton relationship) should be done with extreme caution and after a lot of careful planning and thought.  It is generally speaking a terrible idea for a truly well planned and architeched Top-Down Design workflow in Creo (my humble opinion)... but does raise some interesting debates on design management philosophy...   So.... WHY would any sane person do this?!   Good question!  The most common reason we have heard "to decouple models for reuse (without the relationship baggage), eliminate accidental changes or make things more autonomous after design freeze or production release, etc... "...    So the "how?" has come up enough that we decided to create a short video to highlight some cool things about dynamically generating Creo Mapkeys using Excel Tables and Power Query... using Nitro-CELL.   Nitro-CELL makes the data in / out of Creo a breeze

Hello everybody,   I have the following task/problem at hand: I have an assembly of several parts which are placed with constraints. These parts can be moved within defined limits (for example on a translation axis). How can i extract the limits and axis on which movement is possible with the help of JLink? The part of the documentation that I think is relevant (chapter: Assemblies and components) does not seem to provide a clear answer. I am using Creo 4.0 M070.   Thanks in advance for your help!!

hi. i'm still quite new to creo parametric and need some advice. i've a drawing with a few views of a part. in the part there is a sketch that is only shown in one drawing view using the layers. is there a way that i can change the line style of this sketch in the drawing view. the thickness and the colour so that i can highlight it? thanks

In this video tutorial you can see the power of "Unlock Potential with PTC's Creo" - Real-time Automatic component placement defined by "simple Mapkey" in Creo.   Unlock the Full Potential Across your Company. With PTC Creo Parametric you can easily improve efficiency and productivity - easy to create your final product based on BOM with customized nested mapkey.

hi. i cant use the scroll of my mous3 in ptc creo 2.0. i cant make zoom with it. the scroll of the touchpad of the toaptop doesnt work in creo too. the scroll of the microsoft mouse works correctly but in creo i cant make zoom with the scroll. what can i do??

Hi, I've been working on a project to read dimension & gd&t values from a drawing. I'm successful in reading dimension but not gd&t. Could anyone please guide me how to do it? Thanks

Need To Create solid cable having bending (radius) restrictions and fixed intermediate hose position, fixed length etc..By which method it can be modeled?Actually one of user is creating brake cable and he is facing routing issue

So we are using Creo 6.0 with Windchill. I need to put ports in my parts. The ports don't change change. I, thinking I was clever, saved sketches of the common ports in an offline folder to reuse. However, if I ever use these saved sketches, Creo deletes them after use. I don't want that. This behavior is obnoxious. (Creo does it with tables too.) I want it to behave like Palette. I'm not allowed to add things to Palette and the port names are generic and will deeply mess up my Windchill workspace. I could save the sketch separately again every time I use it, but that is also more work than I think I should be doing. Is there a way to turn this behavior off?

Hey everyone, I've been working on some automation and techniques related to the Cabling environment, and while exploring these areas, I came across a few questions about Creo's native capabilities.Most examples I've seen will define cables as independent wires. You will have "NEW WIRE_SPOOL"s and "NEW WIRE"s to define an array of wires in a harness model. However, I know its possible to define both cable spools and cable definitions through the NWF file. NEW CABLE_SPOOLCABLE_SPOOL_13PARAMETER UNITS INCHPARAMETER NUM_CONDUCTORS 3PARAMETER THICKNESS 0.7PARAMETER MIN_BEND_RADIUS 10PARAMETER WIRE_GAUGE 0.0CONDUCTOR1PARAMETER UNITS INCHPARAMETER COLOR WHTPARAMETER THICKNESS 0.1PARAMETER MIN_BEND_RADIUS 2PARAMETER WIRE_GAUGE 0.0PARAMETER CONDUCTOR_NAME 2463PARAMETER COND_ID 1CONDUCTOR2PARAMETER UNITS INCHPARAMETER COLOR BLUPARAMETER THICKNESS 0.1PARAMETER MIN_BEND_RADIUS 2PARAMETER WIRE_GAUGE 0.0PARAMETER CONDUCTOR_NAME 2475PARAMETER COND_ID 2CONDUCTOR 3PARAMETER UNITS INCHPARAMETER COLOR R

The connection string Async = CAsync.Connect(Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, 15) works fine on my systemBut the same connection string throws TOOLKITCANTMODIFY error on other systems when running the built exe file. Why is this happening?

Hi   If I ensure that none of dimensions in sketch is weak , is it guaranteed that sketch is fully constrained ?    Many thanks for your help in advance.

Is it possible to manually create a simple rep that has features that are suppressed in the master rep? In sheetmetal, Creo does this when you use the "Create Representation" function (see image). It automatically creates a simple rep in which a flat pattern is active. In the master rep, this feature is suppressed. It seems I cannot manually recreate this myself and I would very much like to be able to!  

How can I change the scale information in a detailed view so that it conforms to ISO 128-34? E.g. B 2: 1 the Norm says B (2: 1) is the same size. where and how can I set this up for the users in Creo2 M240? (config.pro or din.dtl)  

While doing some design modification on parts, periodically the part is swapped out with another unrelated part. When the drawing is updated, the balloon has lost its reference. Is there another way than deleting and re-creating the detached balloons? With notes, a new leader is added and with dimensions right clicking pops-up a window with "Edit Attachement", but with balloons it is delete and re-create.    

I work in metal stampind die design, I want to improve my performance, having good templates, where we replace some inputs, and we have the desired part. One is giving me some problems, and I'm loosing much time, repairing those problems!   The one is the cutting plate.   To generate the inner contour, i bring with copy geometrie a closed contour, that it's drawn in a skeleton. Then I project to a sketch that contour, and extrude removing the inner shape.     But for the red one, I'm also making a new sketch, were in this one, I need to make an offset, of the contour.     What happens when I replace the new contour. -The extrude for the green shape, needs to be edited, and the sketch as well, to be updated. -Some times, the direction of remove changes for the opposite direction.all the part desappears, and only the inner shape of contour will remain. -For the red one, sometimes offset doesn't work, and also looses the reference for the contour. So I nee

Hello,    I am defining MBD states and views for one of my client. here is a situation where we have assemblies with 2 levels of components. can you describe be best practice to create dimensions. whether I have to create dimension for each component at the assembly level or create states and dimensions at part level then use the same in assembly level.

Working in Creo 4.0 M060 (without Windchill). After double clicking on a parameter (in this case revision) and the menu manager pops-up for confirmation, the middle mouse button does not work to accept the bold "Confirm". The cursor has to be moved to click it. After the value is changed, the middle mouse button works the next two times. Any ideas as to why it isn't working for accept the "Confirm"?    

Hi   I created an assembly drawing with the part drawings in different sheets. Is possible to add a column in the BOM table that displays the sheet number associated with that part?   Also i noticed that the model-check report is showing the information exactly as i am looking for, but i wish it could be added in the BOM Table.  

My Company has a part that has some complicated inner workings. We don't want to share these inner features with customers when we send them STEP files of our assemblies.    My thought was to extrude a solid feature through all the part geometry to hide the inner working when I export a STEP file (see example below).   Is there a way to have that extrude feature hidden during normal Creo operations, but have it shown when I save this part as a STEP file?   In this way my designers could see all the inner workings of the part, but they export the part as a STEP file to send to a customer, all the inner workings are hidden automatically.   Thanks,   Bob