Drafting

Here's a video showing how to automatically add Dynamic Relations while positioning parts.     (view in My Videos)

Hello Experts,   I have created a master drawing and master model, from which i generate individual drawings for few parts.The parts are long, so that, I've added Broken view in the drawing with multiple breaks. Now, there are few drawings, where I need to remove couple of the break points form the broken view due to some reason. This can be manually done by removing from view properties. But i would like to know if there is some automatic way to remove the required break point  upon generating the drawing. Can this be done by providing a condition in drawing program or use mapkey etc?   For example: In the attachment, drawing generated for Part A from the master drawing has multiple breaks. But when drawing is generated for Part B from the same master drawing, the highlighted break is not required. Any help would be really appreciated.   Thanks in advance

Hello everyone,   I am trying to find where I can learn how to write a "repeatable" hot key. For some testing purposes I need to create one attribute in some 3D Models. I have of course no problem to create it manually 🙂 However, in order to check in the test assembly into a test server, I need to repeat it for all the components and sub assemblies and there are about 2000 of them.   I am trying to learn (unless someone talented and generous enough write the code in the post :)) how to create a hotkey or script that will go to all the prt and asm files in the session and create the attribute   ATTRIBUTE1, type string, value = xxxxx and it is a designated attribute.   Thanks a lot Best regards  

Hi~   I want to do reliefless bending as shown in the figure in CED 19.0 sheet metal module.  I tried many times, but I could n’t achieve it. Anybody could help me.   Thanks.

Hello,   I met the problem showed as below pictures. Can anyone help me to slove it?   Thanks.

According to information from PTC support - support for the AP242 protocol is not yet planned.😠This urgently requires that the data exchange in STEP format be further developed in the CED environment.

I'm having a problem starting Annotation. The error involves TEXT that i have "DEFINED AS A TEMPLATE". The error states that the defined text is too long. I think if I can delete the this text the problem will be resolved. I have tried to follow the file path in the error but have had zero success. Can someone tell me where these text/templates are stored !?    

I have installed Creo Elements Direct Modeling Express.I can't print a file with an .mi extension made with an older version of ME10.Thank you

Please can you help me about the correct Nvidia drivers setup for Creo Elements Modeling environment? If It's possible for Rel. 16 and Rel 20.2. In specific I need to know if the "OpenGl" mode is supported in Rel 16 and next in Rel 20.2. Thank You

Hi,   in Drafting. user can add the dimension with the tolerance. but in Creo there is check box to display tolerance upper limit  and lower limit. but there is no API in creo toolkit to know whether that tolerance upper limit and lower limit is visible or not.   Regards, Vipresh shah

Hi,   I recently received a .pkg file with a full model and I found that it also had drawings in the structure tree. My question is how do I see these drawings so that I can export to PDF?   I have tried to open them from Annotation tab but it won't let me select from the structure tree or save from there to PDF. Is there a way to view these? I don't want to redo work that someone has already done.   Thanks

Hello everyone, I'm facing a complex and apparently insoluble problem with macro execution. The code is launched by a Visual Basic Sendkeys instruction from another application and does the following actions: - Reads data from a text file and stores them into an LTAB; - Deletes the text file; - Sets a part name; check if already exists, deletes it, creates a new part with that name; - Draws a table starting from 0,0 and fills it with stored data; - Adds all data as Info to the part; - Prints a pdf file of the table; - Deletes the table heading text; - Goes to Top, executes a Modify Move action taking the table and leaving it hanging to the mouse pointer. Everything worked fine on seven Workstations for about ten years; a couple of months ago it began giving problems on one single PC (which is the same as mine): the code hangs or ends in a random looking way. From time to time it fails before deleting the existing table, deletes it and ends, begins filling the table and ends after a var

While trying to install Manager Server 19.0 M050 on Windows Server 2012 R2 the installing is crashing near the end after it creates the Rapid Deployment Package and during the Installing Model Manager step.   In the application event viewer there is an Apache Service error that says... "The Apache service named Creo Elements Direct Manager SoftwareDistributionServer reported the following error:>>> [Fri Jun 15 12:51:01 2018] [warn] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : No installed ConfigArgs for the service "Creo Elements Direct Manager SoftwareDistributionServer", using Apache defaults. ."   How can I fix this?   I know this is an old version of Manager Server but I am trying to duplicate our production environment in a development environment so I can test upgrading to 20.1.  

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.

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?  

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

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!

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.

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

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.    

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