Creo Elements Direct

We recently had a request for information on how to measure the distance or offset between planar faces in Modeling (though these tips really apply for measuring the distance between any two points).  Here is a simple video (about 4 1/2 minutes) that shows a few different options, including one tip showing how to get the X, Y, and Z components AND the overall length between the points using a single operation! https://youtu.be/_4dmHQe5mlk I hope this is useful for some of you! Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! andy

I'm not sure what I'm missing. It looks like I've done everything, the feature is displaying, and I'm not seeing any errors/warnings, but ok is greyed out. It's a shelled hemisphere on top of a cylinder, and the whole is going onto the hemisphere. I've projected a sketch onto the hemisphere for placement of the hole, with the idea that there are multiple holes that will each get patterned around the hemisphere (each would be a distinct pattern, with the attention of creating a distinct hole feature for each pattern. Any help would be appreciated. 

The ideas section is not active, so I will pour out my pain here.While this is great software, there are some things I'm sure can be improved, but no one has improved them in decades as far as I can see. Like the good old BOM!How good would be for the designers to be able to create a BOM directly in a 3D modeling application and then just to call it in Annotation application or just to print it in a file. Also directly to set some properties for the parts or subassemblies in such a 3D modeling BOM like the following: ITEM, PART NUMBER, REVISION NUMBER, DESCRIPTION, COMMENTS, STOCK NUMBER, MATERIAL, QUANTITY, MASS (automatic, depending on material) and other properties - like in all contemporary programs!I started reading the help on how to configure BOM and I think I have to finish my second higher education to be able to do something! Then I saw that various people had difficulty with this back in 2007 and still have.Why? ! I hope this will be improved, but my hope is very weak.&

Hello ,  I have a file wihout extension, but according to my researches it is ME10 file with (.mi) extension. Firstly I tried to open it by changing name and extension. As a result I wrote (.mi) and opened it on "Creo Elements/Direct Modelling Express 8.0". So it is succesfull method to open 2d ME10 file. Also I have an another file that it is without extension too. But this file is not working with (.mi) extension on "Creo Elements/Direct Modelling Express 8.0". The reason of this problem that probably this file was created by ME30. It is 3d model. I tried a lot of extension to open it on the program but failed. I cannot drop this file here because of company's policies. Years ago, files as these files without extension created on HP-UX OS. By years by as technology changes, ME30 became Creo Elements/Direct Modelling. I made a deep research in internet and found this kind of knowledges. Can anybody help me to open this "ME30 file" ? Thanks for reading my

Dear All,Some news about Kotom-Eng: new macro for drawing a table from a csv file and vice versa.Have a look at http://kotom.eng.free.fr/drafting%20tools.php

can anyone help me in adding a table, in creo direct drafting?In creo direct modeling, we can add a table when the BOM is active. can we add a table without a BOM?

Dear All,Some news about Kotom-Eng: new macro for moving text in the center of a box or on a line.Have a look at http://kotom.eng.free.fr/drafting%20tools.php

Wondering if anyone else has seen a similar issue to this and knows the cause.An engineer shared a complex model with me today and said that when he saved out a STEP file, the STEP was empty. I was able to reproduce the same behavior on my machine. Not only for STEP files, but also for IGES and parasolid as well. For all of these, the "save as" runs instantly, and creates an file with no geometry in it.  I did find a workaround. We're using Creo 7.0.2.0, so I was able to save the single body in the model to a new part file. In that part file, I was able to save out a STEP file. Of note, the STEP file did have an error in the geometry, but at least it saved something out.  Any ideas as to why the original file couldn't be saved out, but a new part with essentially a copy geometry of the original part's body was able to?

I am having issues with Creo crashing when trying to add views to a drawing for sheet metal parts. I am able to initially add both a flat state and generic drawing view. However at some point after adding both view types, and trying to add another view to detail, I get a warning message (Error(s) in XXXXX\prodetail.dtl. See datafile.ers) and Creo will crash if I try to place the view. Does anyone know where the datafile.ers is saved, or how to find the setting in the config file causing the issue? I have searched my "start in" location, program files, and everywhere else I could think of.  

This is more of a suggestion than a question! PTC Crew....  My idea is to have a delete button at the edit bar of any feature. This idea came to mind because many in times whenever I'm editing a feature and I realize that it is no longer needed I am forced to click at least 4 times to actually delete it. And with the Delete button it would require just 2 clicks.  

Hi Everyone,   I just installed CREO Elements Direct Modeling Express 8.0 and I'm running it on Windows 10 Home Version 21H1.  My laptop has the following specs:   Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz RAM: 16GB Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce RTX2070   When I launch the program it stalls out and never loads.  I have launch the program in verbose mode.  The launch process stalls at initializing base_start.    Anybody have this problem and have found a work around?      

Hello,does anyone know if it is possible to configure the Direct Manager Webserver to use https? We already know how to configure the ModelManager webservices to do that. But we also use the old Direct Manager webserver for 2D drawings and conversion of them to other formats (PDF, DXF) for the purchasing process. Regards, Thomas

Hi,  I received a file with .pkg format and I've tried using Creo Pro 5.0, Creo view express, and Creo Elements Direct Modeling express but all of those can't open the file. Can you please help me to convert it into .dwg? I'll send the file through the message. Thank you in advance!

it should be possible to show different color for identify left-hand/right-hand thread. Otherwise, the manufacturing process could be wrong.

First af all, as far as last friday Creo Drafting was normally working... Now it start normally but at the firsth command you give it freezes. Nothing to do... only Windows task manager --> End Task. This is already happend on other machine and the only solution we found it has been to format the machine Someone has some idea to solve this problem?

Is there a way to remove the gap, the space between dimension value and text you manually typed in a dimension?  we have our dimensions setup as dual with the metric values in brackets.i would like my dimension to look like this:    14 X .50 DEEP,    not this   .....14                      x .50 DEEP                                                                       [355.6]                                      [355.6]

Dear Ngiacom, I wrote this post because I cannot add a comment on your idea:https://community.ptc.com/t5/Creo-Elements-Direct-Ideas/Add-a-method-to-edit-PartLibrary-part-in-Windchill-Pdmlink/idi-p/774492 The question is how to modify a PartLibrary part?First, it is to be remember that PartLibrary is a function whose origin is in Modeling. This function can then be managed or not by a PLM. ModelManager manages PartLibrary. But, whatever the level of access right of the user, the Partlibrary part can not be modified at all (except bypassing ModelManager, which is very delicate). This aspect is the philosophy adopted by PTC. I did not find any litterature about the reason of this philosophy. Anyway, that was a big problem for me when I had to change minor things of the part (name, material, color, weight, geometry, ...). This is why I wrote this idea you mentionned:https://community.ptc.com/t5/Creo-Parametric-Ideas/PartLibrary-it-should-be-possible-to-make-change-to-a-libra

Dear All,Some news about Kotom-Eng: new macro for replacing a string by another in all texts of the drawing.Have a look at http://kotom.eng.free.fr/drafting%20tools.html

Since Creo Drawings don't have a "Spell Check" function, I read somewhere that you can set one up in Model Check. Does anyone know if this is true? If so, does anyone know how?

I am trying to develop a drawing in which all annotations on all sheets are followed with the suffix "in". Is there a way of doing this without manually entering "in" into each annotation? Thank you,DAAAAA

Does somebody know what it means if there is a clock symbol in front of a note?When there is a clock symbol in front of a dimension or annotation this means it's missing a reference, but this note doesn't have a reference (placed flat to screen).   

Greetings, Pre 6.0 I know I could move text and pull dimension leader line.Where is the magic to do this?Please see attached.Thanks, WayneF 

I am having non-solidified piping showing up in my section cut of my drawing that is outside of the section view. If I edit the view definition and change the Pipe and insulation display drop down to centerline it removes all of the floating pipe that isn't solidified yet. When I change it back to default it all comes back.

I see wtpub in my config.pro before all my directory locations. What are it and its use? Where did we get this one?exp: drawing_setup file wtpub://windchill/Libraries/CAD/Standards......etc..  Thank YouKumar

The license period used by the company is too short. I think it's about a week.Is there a way to extend the period?