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Hi. Whenever I think I've found all the workarounds with Illustrate I stumble upon new weird issues. This time in a certain c3di file I couldn't get the publish to work. It would start the worker and hang at 0% indefinitely. After several hours of investigation I found out that one specific symbol that I added as a tool is the culprit. Its .ol representation is attached below. Here's the weirdest part - it prevents worker from publishing only when you assign a colour to one or more of its surfaces! Otherwise it works - you can leave it as is and it won't break the worker and you can assign a single colour to the whole symbol and it still works. But as soon as you change a colour of one of it's surfaces it breaks. So it begs the question - WHY?? I thought it could've been the issue with exporting the file so I did the whole process again - nope. It works the same way.I have a bunch of similar items, basically the same geometry, same designer, same software, just diff

Hello guys!I have an issue with my creo view app, I installed it in a new Lenovo laptop with AMD Radeon graphic card but when I want to print or save a draw as PDF, the app is closed automatically, I already installed updated drivers and windows 10 updates but the issue has not been resolved, Does any have an idea about how can I fix it?

Hi all, Is there a way to point my customized callout to the ASM instead of the PRT? The connector number metadata that I'm attempting to target is in the ASM (highlighted in structure) and not the PRT. Please see my annotation and screenshots below.   Thanks, Tom     <annotation id="ref_des" hasLeaders="true"> <name>Ref_des</name> <description>Reference Harness ID</description> <tooltip>Reference Harness ID</tooltip> <thumbnail url="itmtag_prop.png"/> <leaders> <line-style weight="1pt" color="#000000" halo="false" dashes="Solid" start="none" end="none"/> </leaders> <label canEdit="true"> <text font="Arial" size="10pt" color="#000000"> <useproperty category="Cable Parameters" name="REF_DES"/> </text> <shape type="rectangle" border="true"/> </label> </annotation>

Hello, I'd like to know if there is the possibility to create a "parametric animation" in which I can change the components of a model but keep the same animation sequence.Let me explain: in this way I could "prepare" the animation even without the final version of some models. is this feasible?

Hi again, Yet another issue with Creo Illustrate 7.0 -  See the image below - 2nd warning. I don't care about first one at the moment.Sometimes when I open c3di file some of the images that I inserted as symbols (png format) go corrupt with this error message. I think it's once again something to do with saving, but how can I make sure I don't need to recreate it later on risking with every save that something goes to hell? 

I am looking for a way to convert a Creo View File/ Viewable to a jt file. The Creo View Adapter for JT (jt2pv) is only for publishing to a windchill server, right? I need the other way round. A conversion from Creo View (8.0) to JT, but not interactive by user.  So I need a server controlled publishing, like a worker or anything else or line publishing (batch). 

Hi,I know there's a way to add a decal to geometry in Creo illustrate, however I am wondering whether there's a way of carrying over a decal applied in Creo Parametric to the .ol geometry representation of a part, which then could be used as a symbol in Creo illustrate?So far I was unable to do so. It would be great, cause adding a decal each time I wish to use certain symbol is painful.

Hi,I want to add an assembly structurein symbols section of creo illustrate how do I do it?Thanks in advance. Regards,Aditya Gupta.

Hi, I have a fairly big assembly, for which I have created an instruction set in Illustrate. The file weighs 450MB but it's fine, it works well. I also added several 3d symbols and some 2d symbols. My issues:1. Publishing takes a lot of time in general. What gets published always is all the symbols, whether they are used in the figures chosen for publish or not, the manifest and an .en file and the figures themselves.It doesn't make a big difference how many figures I publish, it appears most of the publishing time is being consumed by whatever the worker does extra.The output file it not big - around 30MB + about 1-2MB per figure2. Some illustrations cause the worker to get stuck at either 5 or 33% of progress. Here's the messages window SS:3. Publishing a few dozen of illustrations is kind of impossible. I need to split the export into pieces...Doesn't hurt me at the moment cause I extract PDFs anyway but it shouldn't fail...I got an error a couple of times, when it ha

Hi everyone,I have a problem with this request:How Creo Schematics can Translate an attribute or simple notes into a scheme? At the moment the best way found is with the Layer method: I've create FR-Layer/Eng_Layer and so on... but there are some problems (positions, export) Thanks!

Hi, I'd like to ask you what is the intended way of using Creo Illustrate post-publish output? What I mean by that is that I wish to create assembly instructions (I have done that already), publish them as 2d PDF files and send them to assembly line for use as a guidance. However the issues I find are as follows:a) viewing the output in Creo View is suboptimal - opening all the illustrations in the grid view takes a lot of time and afterwards I can pick one that I need, maximize it but then what? The "pages" ribbon menu is unavailable for some reason and shows only one page. Also zooming in and out takes a lot of time to render. (edit: opening and rendering is significantly better in Creo View Lite compared to Express)b) when viewed in Creo view the illustrations loose sharpness compared to Adobe. (edit: the loose sharpness in creo view express. They don't in creo view Lite)c) I could potentially open the pvz file, extract all the PDFs and merge them, but it's a lot of hassle.&nbs

Yesterday my PC crashed. In the crash, several hours of work in Creo View were lost (positioning assemblies, creating sections and views etc.). Is there any way to recover this from Creo View temporary files?

I have two questions:1 - When from windchill I open a drawing with Creo View every time the login screen on Creo View appears .....you can disable it and open Creo View directly to me?  (image 1.jpg)2 - If I have already opened Creo View, when opening a drawing with Windchill it asks me if I want to open it in the same window or in a new one. Can I always open it in the same window by default ? (image 2.jpg)

Any stacked callouts I create in Illustrate are converted to a single line when I export to IDR, CGM, and SVG. Also seems like the font weight is reduced and line weight is even slightly lower. Anyone else run into this or are there export options somewhere I can edit? Stacked callouts in Illustrate are created in the callout properties dialog using carriage returns after each line. SVG rendering is consistent between Edge, Firefox, Chrome, IsoDraw, and Adobe Illustrator. 

Hi. The more I use this piece of...software the more frustrated I become. Here's a link to part of the issues I'm having - apparently unsolved since 2016:https://community.ptc.com/t5/Addtl-Creo-Products-View-Sketch/Creo-Illustrate-animation-annotations-grayed-out/m-p/172300#M791Below is what I see in my file. But my issues go beyond what has been described in post above.Here's the deal:Those grayed out notes and symbols are gone from "Figure Content". No idea why though. I have several animations in a sequence plus some illustrations in one c3di file. Everything was working fine untill at one point I saved the file and opened it (I didn't even touch animations today, they were made yesterday). I was using symbols and callouts that I previously used in the sequence animations. After I opened Illustrate half the symbols/notes were gone from my freshly done illustration set. Not from the Figure Content though. However the figure content looks like that:The top SS shows a ri

Hi again, Here are todays issues with Creo Illustrate 7.0:1. For some reason some symbols disappear after saving and reopening of the file.  They are there as you can see, but they're invisible. Now why those 3 have not changed? There's one distinct thing about them - I have them in a couple of other figures and I had them before I created this figure above. After I placed a symbol that was already in the figure, saved and reopened - BOOM, the original appears...So are we supposed to place hundreds of symbols back into figures every now and then and then delete them  because they randomly bug out?  2. Somehow after just repositioning a newly created figure (seriously, why do new figures always end up on the bottom when they would be created just below a selected figure in any reasonable software in current century??) one of my figures just disappeared, which I noticed after saving and reopening of the file. Not only that, but all figures below th

It seems like Illustrate auto-assigns item numbers in the Item List based on the sequence number. Usually, that's helpful because I don't have to manually edit every single callout. In the below list I add seq 0, it defaults to 1 and I manually (right-click and choose renumber from the menu) change it to 1,2.The next callout defaults to seq 1, item 2 and I manually change it to 1,3Next callout defaults to seq 2, item 3. I right-click, choose renumber, tell it to derive the item number from the sequence and change sequence to 3. Great. Fine. At this point I want Illustrate to just pick up the numbering at 4. Why does it duplicate 3? And if i manually re-number this duplicate 3 to be seq 4 then the next callout I add will duplicate 4.If I were to, say, skip from seq 3 to seq 5 then the next callout I add would go back to 4. Occasionally Illustrate will skip ahead in the seq order; e.g. jump from 3 to 10, 11, 12, etc. Why? What is Illustrate referencing to get it's seq numb

Hi,is it possible to change the "Item tag" in item list under Creo Illustrate? What I mean by that:In my case Item Tag displays part numbers because it references one of 3 parameters(attributes) from Creo (don't know which yet"). Either "PTC_WM_NUMBER", "sBOM" name" or "eBOM Name". Probably the sBOM name. Nevermind...somehow I missed the column chooser...

Hi,I have Creo Illustrate 7. When I try to edit some types of keyframes the programme hangs. It's almost guaranteed and makes editing sequences or animations extremely frustrating and nearly impossible in case you need many edits to take place (such as position adjustments). It rarely happens when I edit geometry or camera keyframes.It nearly always happens when I try to edit anything else, such as callouts, symbols. It happens when I mark or unmark visibility option for a keyframe or when I type in (usually when I tab to or click another cell) position. Did anyone notice that behaviour and found a solution?

I am using Creo Schematics 4.0 M010Hello,Trying to create a report of BOM along with tag number (topologic number) in order to integrate to Windchill.Process design, not electrical.Problem is that a part (as for Windchill) can have multiple tags (so quantity should be 1 and not as many as tags).Ideal will be an xml file that I can import into Windchill) or directly create the Windchill BOM when checking in the rsd conception.Printscreen enclosed

We are not able to view any imported geometry within Creo Illustrate 8.1. Previous actions that worked involved changing the Filters settings.This worked in Illustrate 7 but does not in our current version.

Hi, I have just connected Creo Illustrate to Windchill (without Windchill Workgroup Manager, just direct connection). I choose Import - Link - and browse to my workspace but it is completely empty. When I look at the exact same workspace in Creo, then there are all the files in all the formats that I saved. What could be the issue and how to fix it? Kind regards,Tom

Hi,On my journey with setting up Creo Illustrate I've found out that videos (MP4) generated by the software have way different dimensions or viewing area if you please, than what's visible in Creo illustrate while recording. It defeats all the purpose of doing sequences or animations if you can't predict what's going to be visible in the actual video export.So am I missing something or is there an option to adjust the Figure page size to what's going to be exported so that I know what I record is what's going to end up in the actual video?Photo 1: Creo Illustrate view. A3 page setup.Photo 2: Recording view  EDIT:Ok...so apparently when you hit "Export" everything works fine, however publishing as MP4 is completely different. Is it a bug or do I need to edit some recipe or what? When I''m going to have a tone of sequences to publish generating them is going to suck... Kind regards,Tom

Hello, to continue my project I want to use Creo PRODUKT INSIGHT. Before starting the project I wanted to know how this works. I created a simple CSV file. I also created a part as a sensor and defined the sensor parameters in a xml file.  (CSV, XML files and Errors are in the PDF)   When I load the CSV file in the assembly, I get the following error message.  invalid input It is necessary to complete one of the measured parameters   I don't know what I missed. Which parameters do I have to complete? Do you have any idea to fix this error?   Thanks a lot  

One of our checkers had a question that I don't know the answer to.  "I do NOT know the technique to “Save” my work in CREO View on an incremental basis;  my (now retired) instructor didn’t know either  -  so, I have to check an entire drawing in one session, no matter how complex the drawing is … Not a problem for smaller drawings, but larger ones, it becomes a tense race." So is there a way for the checker to save his markup work locally and pick up the checking again the next day and then submit it to windchill after he as finished. We would kind of hate to have multiple markups in Windchill that the user would have to look though to fix the drawing.