Creo+ and Creo Parametric

Hello, I´ve just started working on a project, where I should integrate a calculation tool in Creo Parametric. I thought it would be a good idea to write the program in Java and run it via the "External Analysis" option in Creo. Now I have some questions: -I need to solve a Surface Integral in my external Java program, therefore I need to pass a curve or some curve points (maybe as vector?) to my Java program, so it can solve the Surface Integral numerically. But I can only pass dimensions and parameters of the Creo part to an external file (.csv,...) and I didnt find a way to define a vector of points or anything similar as parameter. How can I do that? -There is only very few information how the "External Analysis" Tool works in the Creo Documentation. Which "Script Commands" do I have to use to start an external program (which reads the data from a .csv file and asks me for further input and then solves the Surface Integral)? -Is there a better way of developing such a tool? I don´t

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Hello community, I´d like to make a technical drawing of an model which I created. This model is a small plate and it has the dimensions 18x18x1,6 [mm]. Now, because it´s so small I created the views in scale 4:1 (4 times bigger than in real life).    My problem appears when I am dimensioning the 2D-view. The view is 4:1 but the measurement is like 1:1 (it does not multiply with the scale): 1:1 Real model: 18mm 4:1 scaled model: 18mm (but normally it should be 4x18mm = 72mm)   When I make a sketch in the drawing and make a dimensioning of it, it makes the correct scaling operation. As an Info: I didn´t took the "View Model Notes"-Option. I did the dimensioning all manually for better overview.   Could it be that the geometries of the model can not be scaled properly or do you have any idea how to get rid of my problem?   Thanks in advance!  

Hello, I have successfully installed CREO Parametric and whenever I try to open it (normally as well as an administrator), the loading icon appears next to the cursor and disappears after 3-4 seconds but CREO parametric does not open and I don't even get any error messages.    So, I don't even know what's wrong. I hope someone can help me with this at the earliest.   Thanking you in advance, Sarthak

Greetings all.   Does anybody know if there is a way to take a screenshot inside of Creo within a window? I currently use the printscreen button and paste it into Paint. I then select the area I want and put that in an email. I am looking for a way to select a window in Creo and paste that into an email without having to use Paint.   Thank you in advance for your assistance.

1. example pfcUDFCreateExamples.html comes with Creo at "...\Common Files\M230\weblink\weblinkexamples"  2. It can work but needs a click to specify the csys to place the UDF <--- problem !!! csys is given whey still needs a click?  find the source code and necessary .prt .gph to see the symptom. Thank you very much!!!  

Hi,   Is there a way by which we can show a Specific component of a Sub-Assy in the BOM TABLE of the Main Assy??I am aware that this can be done through Flat and Recursive Option, but I am wondering if this can be done through the use of Relations/ Rules so that the manual work can be eliminated. The Pipe part number is unique.   Example: The Main ASSY below is made of Sub-Assy1 and Sub-Assy2. I would like to show the Pipe in the BOM table of Main Assy. so the Idea is to include all the pipes in the Bom table of main assy if they are ever used in any of the sub assemblies.   Final BOM table: Thanks, Deepak

Hi,   I have created an animation using different explosions of an assembly and want to add an animation, which shows the model rotating 360°.   I've tried to add a MDO-Animation(with servomotor)  to the explosion-animation, but it doesn't connect both animations. It creates a new separate animation.   So how can I create the animation that shows the model rotating 360° ? When I create an explosion-state with the model rotated 360° it doesn't move at all.   Thanks, Maik

Creo 4.0 M120, Windchill  11.2.1.2 We recently changed VARs and migrated from Creo 3.0 M140. I have noticed the timing for logging into my session now comes after a workspace action request. In Creo 3.0, it was immediately after launch. The new timing for login is not conducive to crashes/improper closings and attempting to RETRIEVE open files at the crash. If we chose to RETRIEVE, we get "failure to open ****" messages that we either are prompted to ignore or cancel the retrieval. If we ignore (which is usually for all the files), after all the prompts, nothing opens and then the user is prompted to login. If they had been logged in before, all files would've been retrieved....in theory.   So here's the question....where is the preference to change when the user is prompted to login? I have been searching (as Windchill Admin) for 3 days and have found nothing relatable. Is it an upper level system Admin preference setting?  Thank you for your help. (PS...I'm a super use

I don't know how it happened but Creo created a Family Table for an assembly without me knowing it... How can this happen?

Can someone tell me how to turn off 3D Annotation Display by default?  Every time I open an assembly the Annotation Display is set to show.  How to I set it to Hide when I open a file?

Hello. I am designing a electronics chassis that is going to be tested on a shake table. My issue is what are the proper boundary conditions?  I have been doing this for a long time and before I just constrained the bottom surface of the chassis. I have gone through several different variations of BC's  Now, I just constrain the bolt holes that are around the edge of the chassis. I am still not happy/comfortable with them. See attached picture of model. Anyone else have any experience or thoughts to the proper BC's.? Thanks in advance    

Thank you for reading my message. I need your option on this.  I am running a shock analysis of a electronic chassis. It is a 20g, 11ms, 1/2 sine wave.  I ran the analysis in the time domain and calculated some stresses around 15,000 psi.  I reran the analysis in frequency domain with an SRS frequency curve. My max stress was about 60 psi.  The first mode of my chassis is approximately 200 Hz. The frequency of the 11ms is 45 Hz (1/.022) =45 Hz). So I believe what is happening is during the time analysis, the chassis is seeing all the inertia/bending loading due to the acceleration of the chassis. While as in the frequency analysis, the chassis natural frequencies are so much higher than the input, it is not affected by the loads in the frequency input.  Does that sound right?  Thanks for any feedback. 

Hello, There are lots of issues here. I am trying to simulate a electronics chassis on a tray with LORD type isolators with the spring model. First, how do you make them visible in results. I cannot seem to see them. So run a static "check" simulation (1 G in one direction) and I get some results. The reaction check out, etc. I run an eigenvalue extraction. I get the model shapes (without springs) and they seem reasonable. I run a random vibration and I get the fatal error, saying that I have an unconstrained degree of freedom. The message continues that I should run a constrained Modal Analysis with rigid mode search to see the unconstrained degrees of freedom. Well, I did that and 1) I didn't have any rigid modes. (with the rigid mode option on and the lowest frequency to start the search at "0" Hz.  HELP. Any suggestions??? Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to show 2 reps in the same section view? My client has a number of legacy drawings which show a cross section of a hydraulic cylinder, one half of the view  shows the piston at rest & the other half shows the piston at full stroke, is there a way of replicating this in Creo? The legacy drawings were created on an old 2D CAD system, but  they want the new drawings to replicate the old drawings.

Hi, i have an IpfcModel object and i want to know, via vb api, its lenght unit (mm or inch). Is possible to do it? Thanks

I am having an issue with Drawing annotations from a 3D UDF.   I have created a UDF for Standard Nutplate holes. I have created the 3D Annotations in this UDF.   When I createa a Drawing view from the UDF the Annotation shows up just like I want.   When I use this UDF in a part, using the Modrl Tab and the User-Defined Feature, and create a view from the part I cannot create the 3D Annotaion.  There is not options to select.   I am trying to set up a standard UDF so all Designers are using the same nutplate hole size and locations and transfer that information from the UDF to our drawings so the Draft doesn't have to cerate the Dimensions and Notes for each drawing.   I am including pics of the UDF and the Drawing Views.   Any suggestions? 

Hi, Can we find whether note is related to any object or View through Creo API ?     Thanks

Hello,   We're developing an application for creo that uses the pfcls vb api. We need support for multiple version of creo and what I've observed is that each major version of Creo (>X<.y.y.y X=major version) requires its own pfcls assembly (.dll).    Is this true?    Thanks 

Hi, I have an assembly within some dimensions are set by input in pro/program.I would like to make some instances of this assembly to preset several size in a family table. Is it possible to have both solutions. Or, does I have to chose between program OR family table ? I've made some trails, but assembly can't regenerate anymore. Thanks  

Hi guys,   I have a problem with trail.txt file. I use the Version: Creo Student 5.0.4.0. My problem is i don't find any trail.txt file on my PC. The only file with the same ending is PRO_trl.txt. Is this the same file as trail.txt? If yes how I can play it with creo? The Button for Play trail file is gray I cant push it.

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Hi All! I'm just getting to grips with putting together mechanisms in Creo Parametric 3.0, and I'm trying to get a straight line linkage to work. When I modelled it I could simulate movement by Ctrl+Alt+LMB, but as soon as I put some relations in, the dragging function stopped working. Please see the attached screenshot.     Thanks for looking!

I have a part which has two instances. The two instances are used to create an assembly. The part has 1000 features. Now when I open only generic part and make some modification to hole placement then it is done quickly in 1 min.   But if I keep the assembly open and make some modification in generic then it takes 7 mins. Regenerating all three : The generic and two instances. total 3000 features. So how can I stop regeneration of instances while making changes to generic file and keeping the Assembly open.