Other Creo Products (View/Sketch/Illustrate/Layout/ Schematics and Creo Direct)

Hello All, Sheet metal tangent lines on drawing views. Is it common to display your sheet metal drawing views with tangent line set to "None"? Is there an industry standard, company standard, or personal preference that defines this? My years in design and drafting I have typically used "Dimmed" for tangent lines on views. I now have a request to not show the tangent lines for sheet metal views. I'm curious to hear what others use. These are basic part 3 inch wide about 20 inch long with 1 inch 90deg bends. So it is not an overly complicated object.   Thanks in advance.

We have a group within our organization that has been starting to dabble a in Creo Illustrate over the past few weeks, and we are having issues getting files to import from Windchill PDMLink.  To start off, we are on Creo 4.0 M060, Windchill 11.0 M030 CPS11, and Creo Illustrate 4.2 in place for our organization at the time.   What we are finding is that if designers (those with access to the CAD documents) are working with Creo Illustrate WITHOUT being connected to Windchill, we can export the files from Creo, and import into Creo Illustrate with no issue.  Those designers can also send those files to our Technical Writing team (no direct access to CAD documents), and the Tech Writers can import those files into Illustrate without issue.   We begin to experience issues when we connect to Windchill.  We are not able to import our CAD documents into Illustrate when connected.  We get the file structure, but no viewables whatsoever.   What we are wo

Hello all, We are having issues, where all of our cables are showing only as a centerlines in illustrate and creo view. This is a problem when we need to show cable routings. i have tried turning on all the model filters. I know our design team uses the cable module from creo parametric, i had them try to set the "display cable thickness" on from there end. then saving it to windchill, but no luck.  All of our Cad data is uploaded to windchill, which creates GDD(pvz) files that we import into creo illustrate.  Are we missing modules or is there something in winchchill thats causing this? Thanks We are running creo parametric 4.0, Windchill 11.0 , Creo View Lite 4.0, Creo Illustrate 5.0 Professional

Ciao a tutti, come faccio ad aggiungere una seconda linea guida a un'annotazione (Nota con linea guida)? Grazie , Matteo

Hello there,   this should be a very simple thing to do I just cannot figure it out how.   Basically how do I create a new template, so that I can add my logo, revisions chart, and so on?   the basic tutorial uses default templates so it really does not help on this matter.   I appreciate any feedback on this matter   Thanks    

Has anyone else run into the "Selected part does not have enough geometric detail" when applying decals in Creo Illustrate 6.1? We wanted to use this to apply images to the decal parts in our assemblies but many of them are simple geometry and we are getting this message. 

When viewing and printing our pro/e drawings from Creo View Express, our hidden lines show and print as solid lines.  Our purchasing dept uses this program to print drawings and pdfs to order parts, and as you could guess this has caused us many problems.   Upgrading from Creo View Express 3.0 to 3.1 helped a little because it added the option to view and print drawings as grayscale (rather than just monochrome or color) which makes the hidden lines gray, however they are still solid which is not ideal.  Any suggestions?Thanks,Todd

Hello everybody, I wanted to ask you how to display the references (planes, axes, points) of a model made in Creo Parametric when I open it in Creo View.   Matteo

Is it possible to save view status on illiustrate like on Creo? (See attachment) Thanks  

Hi,   In Creo Illustrate 6.0 I can see four different checkbox icons in sBOM - see the image below. All parts are enabled in the BOM. I cannot find explanation for them anywhere. Could you explain what do that four icons mean, please?   Thank you! Marcin Gorecki

Hello,   I'm trying a trial version of Creo Illustrate standard. I'm working with a very large assembly, i created the pvz file with creo then imported it with Illustrate, everything seems OK, the parts that were hidden in Creo are not visible. But, when I start creating sequence steps, the hidden parts start showing up. Anyone with this problem?   Thanks

Can you use family tables to help generate Illustrate files, so you don't have to recreate animation for each instance?

Before I spend much time looking for it (unsuccessfully, because it doesn't seem to be there): In Creo View Lite there is no way to change the lighting settings (e.g. spotlights), right?   This must be done (at minimum) in Creo View MCAD, and saved from there as an annotation set, correct?

Hello,   We are looking to use CreoView MCAD to create simple animations showing a product from 360 degrees.  For this is i'm looking for a simple "turntable" effect but have not been able to create this within the animation module.  Is this possible?   Thanks,   John

 i am not getting sequence option to create step. Even Though i used > animation> sequence> steps it works when i preview the sequence, after i save and publish in .pvz file. then if i open the sequence is not played. kindly help for settings or how to proceed. 

Hi, I am searching for a way to delegate the Windchill Version and the Windchill LifeCycle state to Creo Schematics.   There seems to be no way, or am I wrong?

Hi all,   In Creo 5.1 you have the option to select "create surface borders" in the Figure view options. When i select that option, the technical drawing looks perfect in Creo itself:   But when exporting to svg it looks like this: It has too much lines.   Can anyone help me with this? I want the output to be the same as the first image.   ps: when testing this in Creo 3.1 it works like a charm 😉   tnx!  

  Can someone tell me how to get the trial version of Illustrate ? I have downloaded Illustrate but i get stuck on the startup screen. Is there a trial version with which I can access the tool ?

Hello,   I have found that at a certain length of steps and complexity Creo Illustrate begins to introduce glitches into sequences. These relate to the position and visibility of parts. The attached video demonstrates this. 1) The pump cover is moved in place 2) A new step is created with the (+) symbol 3) The new step automatically retains a position for the pump cover from 2 steps prior. Instead it should retain the position from the previous step.   I don't have issues like this in shorter assemblies. This is a challenge because it would be best for AR training if we could show all of the steps (start to end) of complete overhaul of our product.   Thanks, Wes

We have started seeing an issue when we open a CreoView file from Windchill and then go to print it to Adobe PDF. In some cases, we do not get the full drawing into the PDF file. Views are missing or the format is missing, in one case, sheet 1 only showed the 2 shaded views but sheet 2 was fine. When we do a print from within Creo, these same drawings when printed to Adobe PDF on the same computer come through fine. Not sure where to start searching for the answers. Is it a CreoView issue or Adobe PDF? PDF prints from Creo being fine would lead me to thing CreoView.   Creo 4 M080 CreoView 4.1 F000 Windchill 11.0 Mo30 CPS08  

Need an improvement in NX PMI conversion for the Multi-byte character in the future release of Creo View and Creo View adapter for NX. Based on the comments in the chapter of Supporting NX with Model View States in 5.1 F000 Crreo View MCAD Adapters Installation and Configuration Guide NX PMI conversion has the following limitations: No Multi-byte character support. Only ASCII characters in PMI annotations are converted.  

Hi,   I've connected Creo Illustrate 6.0 to Windchill using direct connection (WGM is no longer supported). I can open files from Windchill and create new figures, but I cannot find a way to save the resulting illustrations back to Windchill. When I try to publish to Windchill location I'm getting "Publishing to a server location is not supported" error message.   What is the best way to save the illustrations (cgm, pvz and png) back to Windchill? Ideally I would like to maintain the tractability to original part using describe link as well.   Thank you, Marcin Gorecki

If the Parameter pane is open, using Refit Sheet to view the entire sheet defaults to zooming it to fit the window as if the Parameter pane is close hiding the bottom of the sheet. There is an icon in the upper right of the Parameter pane that looks like Clicking on it tells Schematics that it should refit the sheet in the remaining part of the window. If you want to return to the "hide the bottom section" setting, the icon changes to  that you can use to change the setting back to default.    

Hi all, is it possible to change the thickness of callout circles in Creo Illustrate? I found nothing in the community or Knowledge base of PTC.

I have a placed jt file in a idr file. I want to create an enlarged view of a detail. Can I place an elipse over the placed file and trim it so the lines in the ellipse are still displayed?Bryon