Creo Elements Direct

Hello Friends,   I have question about. How can i open CED 20.1 version files in CED 18.0 ?   Is there any option to do it. It is there the option of CGRI in Creo Parametric. I have some files created in CED 20.1 version. Now the other subsidiary company wants to access those files but they are using CED 18.0.   Please help if some one have gone through such phase.    

Dear all, on recently installed Workstations, Direct Drafting 19.0 began to add to drawings the info "PD_ZONE". This is not present in drawings created by other Workstations and is messing up with macros, probably because it is the first info read by an INQ. I can certainly provide some "PD_ZONE" cleaner utility, or lines that ignore it, but the main goal is to inhibit its creation. I believe this issue could someway deal even with the problem reported in my previous topic "Unpredictable macro crash". Thank you for reading! ----------------------------------------------------- Sorry everyone! Do not consider, unless it could be useful for you. The solution is the simplest: Settings>Edit Ambient>System>Ambient-Parametric design module unflagged. Nothing to do, anyway, with the previous topic, still unsolved. Marco

3D dimensions can be a good way to drive changes to a model. The problem is that if you create several of these per part and have an assembly of hundreds of parts, the display gets cluttered with all of those 3D dimensions. The only option at this point in the base module is to use the Show menu to have all labels on or off in the viewport.   I would like the ability to show/hide 3D dimensions in the base product. One option for doing this would be a setting where the dimensions (and all other labels) on a part are displayed when the part is set active and hidden when the part is not the active part.

Here's a simple video showing new functionality in AI MAX Share.   If you use Creo Elements/Direct or CoCreate, check out AI MAXTools (www.ai-maxtools.com) to see how you can get added functionality for your existing tools! 

Hi,   I would like to clear my doubt about the text frame option available in dimension properties.   I would like to know whether the balloon frame which is shown as a closed circular frame is used for the reference dimensions in creo element direct modelling because in standard practice the frame for the reference dimension is of open circular brackets.   Thanks,   Regards, Anand

Sometimes the 3D copilot is not in the centre of the part or assembly. When I delete the viewsets in the part the copilot is in the centre again.Is there another way to solve this issue?  

Search text and Search dimension should be available (and works !) in 3D & 2D Access, i think. That should be well in this products

I want to start Direct Modeling 19.0 M070 on a small Laptop with Intel UHD Graphics 620. Result: VP '1' is blocked and i get an sigsegv-Error. Is there any possiblity to start Modeling, most for viewing on the System. Are there any start-Options to let modeling know he has to work on an low-Level-Graphics-System?

We have serious problem converting DXFs to .mi, which is a standard in our organization.   When we import a DXF, with main scale lets say 1:5, it is imported as 1:1.   So when fixing existing annotations, or applying new annotations, all the dimensions are reduced 5 times. It is not possible to rescale with PART_DRW_SCALE '~A' 0.2, because it is not  just changing scale, but transforms the drafting along with it. And it is finishing deformed, and still reduced 5 times in values.   What We need is just make all the values 5 times greater, to conform original dimensions, without deforming the drafting.   P.S. I tried tweaking PTC\Creo Elements\Direct Drafting 18.1\dxfdwg\DXFDWG.con It has no effect on "x times scaling". And the "mm" units are correct.   # DXF/DWG to MI Translation Switches StartSection DXF to MI Translator PolymarkerType 2 TranslateDXFPenLineSize 3 TranslateInvisibleLayers OFF CustomUnits ON Units mm UnitsScale 1.0 ContourSnapGap 1E-12 Hatch

Hello everyone,   I am experiencing an undesiderable behaviour in CEDM 18:   I start moving a face clinking on it, then click on the orange arrow, dragging mouse, on release I expect to see red and green arrows to specify relative quote. These arrows are visible only for a blink of an eye, then they disappear again and the orange arrow (face selection) is shown again.   Any idea on how to solve this issue?   Thanks!

Hi,   I work with Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 18 on two different machines. One of them lists STL in save>file type while the other does not. The software version is the same, the model I'm working on is loaded from the same pkg.    Any ideas?   Thanks a lot!

Hi  We need to delete multiple sheets in Annotation. We have Models with up to 35 Drawing-Sheets.   Many thanks Urs Ammann 

Hello,               Please let me know, if there is a same option such as Intelligent Fasteners in Creo 2.0 . If yes, please let me know how to activate that module. Also, is there a method to Extract Fasteners details of a assembly, without assembling the Fasteners in the assembly. For Example based on the Type of hole sizes in the Model.

Hi,   Can anybody help me out for adding custom frames in CED Annotation file? I tried the method suggested by PTC Tech Support but did not work in my case. I tried below method of changing the am_customize file as below   ;(docu-register-frame ;    :UI-name "Custom-A3";    :Wm-name "" ;    :file "C:\Custom_Frames\Custom_A3.mi";    :default :every time)     ;; T/NIL/:every time     But this did not work. Still the same standard Letter sizes and A0.....A4 sizes are showing.   Please help....

Hello everyone, I'm new to Creo software and we need some advice on which software can work with our client's workflow. The client provides us with PKG files, we need to turn on/off visibility of components and then export it as STEP Files.  We don't need modeling capabilities, and the client will like to avoid allocating time for the conversion process, and at the same time it's on our side to select what really needs to be exported.   We tried the Creo View and the PKG file format is not supported.  Is there any other option? What other format is lightweight and easy for them to save as from Creo modeling that we could use Creo View to export?   Any guidance will be great. Thanks!

Dear all,   regarding to PTC-article CS122349, i would like to suggest, that it would be a benefit, to create dimensions on every geometry which is shown in a CreoElements Drafting file. In the moment shared-shared parts can not be dimensioned but they are also part of geometry in a drawing.   Best regards   Sven Brüschke/Herrenknecht AG

Hello i just setup PTC Creo Elements Direct Modeling Express 6.0, I'm registred. But at the launch softwer ask proxy.   After input no proxy i can get possibility to activate manuelly for 72 hours and software give me a code but each time the code isn't valide.   Can you help me

Is it possible to update the BOM list automatic when a new part is inserted to the assembly? Now the users need to do the following: - Insert the part in the assembly (or a changed part) - Scan the BOM - Delete the old BOM - Place the BOM again on the drawing   Isn't it simple the part is added to the BOM automatic?

Our current workstations have 32 GB of memory. When loading a large assembly from Model Manager I find that SolidDesigner appears to limit itself to using less than 10 GB of memory (see the first screenshot below). The wave pattern of memory usage looks like the software needs more memory but instead of taking memory that is available it is dumping some memory already in use.   I have a new workstation that has 64 GB of memory installed but SolidDesigner still appears to limit itself to under 10 GB of memory when loading from Model Manager (see the second screenshot below). Is there a setting somewhere that is limiting how much memory Creo can use? I was hoping to see an improvement in load times with this new computer but I am not seeing improvement.    

Product idea for dimensioning in Annotation: Please add multi line postfix in dimension tolerance type "Basic". We need this for multi language drawings.

If I create a parallel auxiliary line, I can select the line in Modeling and move it with the mouse. Then I see exactly the unit of measure dynamically. I can enter an exact measure and press Enter at the same time.The line is created. When I click on the button to create parallel auxiliary line in Drafting, I also see the measure dynamically, but I have to leave the command if I want to enter an exact measure. Double work. Could it possibly do the same as in Modeling?

Hallo lieber support, ich hätte mal eine frage. ist es möglich Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 19 als Studentenversion zu aktivieren? ich habe zwar das creo direct 4.0 aber das ist leider nicht das was ich brauche mfg Eduard 

Hi,  How can I export pcb componets to emp file from CED ? Because I exported Emn & Emp file from CED , I only see board and keepout. I couldn't find any componet export Below image   Thank you

If you modify a part within an inseparable assembly, the modification state of the inseparable master is also updated. If you store the recently modified parts of an inseparable assembly using Save Modified, the whole assembly is stored. The modification is done by adding an additional view. As a consequence all views of the inseparable and the sheet gets the state “update needed”.   This behavior, in some situations, is not the best, because to update assembly views may require several minutes

I think by now 4 to 6 weeks have passed in which the license server for Modelling Express is down and the only way to continue working with it, is by requesting a manual activation key every per 72 hours... until that option will eventually fail to work as well.  I don't know how many users will then have no longer access to their design, but I guess quite a few!    Which would be a pity because this application is by far the best I know of for enthousiast amateurs who want to make semi-professional 3D-printable one-off designs. At least that is why I love it in the first place. It even works so well that I strongly believe I could have been a huge success, if actively promoted and supported for the 3D printing communities.   But that will never happen to it as long as PTC treats it as the black sheap of the familly. Without any means to get support or even the right to contact PTC by email it looks the only thing PTC wants with it is to die slowly (and painful