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

Has anyone used the direct connection between Creo Illustrate and Windchill that comes with Illustrate 4.1? What are the pros/cons you've experienced with the direct connection?  I prefer the concept of a workspace in WWGM where we can do work before uploading that to commonspace in Windchill. I'd like feedback before we commit to upgrading to 4.1.

Hi,   Recently i was watching the following great video, here: 3d view from Virtual Interconnect, and was supprise to see that creo schematic has a 3d view of a connector. What is the proces to achive it ? or it is just an import of a dwg ?   Will be happy to hear your inputs   Many thanks,

can we exclude open sketch  

  when I enter creo sketch download for windows, i get an 404 notfound error.. help me download it...

We have a requirement that is currently being met by an existing tool which adds a custom 2D background to the 3D Model creating a border/template into which text can be placed as required. See attachment. This can then be printed as a 2D PDF. (Hard copy is currently a deliverable) Is there a way to do this in Creo View annotations and/or Creo Illustrate figures.

I have installed the Creo 3 student version. But i get no dimensions in sketch mode. Someone has got a solution for my problem or is this a restriction of the student version?

In Creo Parametric 4.0, I have an assembly with different parts assigned different colors. When I convert to a STP file, exported as AP214 which is supposed to retain colors, the shade of the colors changes. For example I go from a beige color to a blinding white. Any ideas how to fix this?

Is schematics the place to ask cable routing questions?

We are running Creo 2, M230 for production but have installed Creo 4, M020 for evaluation.  I hope we can move to Creo 4 soon.   When I installed Creo 4, it of course installed the latest version of Creo View and the thumbnail viewer.  Now, every time I fire up Creo 2 it briefly tries to install the Creo 2 version.  Is there a way to stop this from happening?

Is there a way to move the section location in Creo View Express?

We have created a idr file with a placed tiff file on it. We ahve tried three different resolutions of tiff. 300, 600, 1000. Lines look sharp in IsoDraw. When you export it, the lines go fuzzy.cgm settings webcgm 2.1, version 4, no compression on color, ccitt group 4 (T6) on b/wany suggestionsBryon

Creo View Drawing Compare.. seems like we took something that should be easy and made it very hard. Why can't I find the drawing I want to compare two seperate revisions or iterations of that I find on the details page with the history tab, select the two objects and choose open in CREO VIEW. Then In Creo View I should be able to do something as easy as select the two and pick a compare action. What is the deal with adding to clipboard "and you cannot add them both from the history tab, it claims it adds them but it dosn't". You have to go to each of the objects detail page in order to have the drawings show up on the clip board. Now you have to go to the clipboard and select both objects and choose to open in Creo view. Once you get the objects in Creo.. not very intuitive regarding the compare option or getting the overlay of the two drawings....

Hello.   I have recently started to use Creo Mechanism which is a bit finnicky and not user friendly but I think I am slowly getting the hang of it. I have set up a mechanism with a spring between two bodies. This seems to work as intended however the graphical representation of the spring has decided to follow the motion of a different body altogether. Does anyone know what is wrong here?   I attach a picture that tries to illustrate the problem.   It is a small problem but it is not fun to explain to anyone that the simulation is probably physically correct and that it is just the graphics that are wrong.   Kind regards Jimmie

Hello, all!Is there a default setting to have Creo View start with the graphics area maximized (i.e. all toolbars, panels, etc. minimized....see below...)?  I don't see anything in the preferences and I don't see any mention of this on the communities or tech support.  Maybe even a manual edit to the preferences xml would do (if not supported).Thanks, all!

I have tried and it's highly confusing to retrieve information regarding model and model descriptions, like getting model type and some places I am only able to get the first child and its siblings but not its root element. Can anyone help me which class and methods should be used to get the information about session, model, model descriptions in pview.jar?

I wanted to see if anyone else had experienced a similar problem with losing figures in Creo Illustrate 3.1 and knew of any causes or solutions.  I worked in the same file several times with no issues.  After making about a dozen figures in the file including a couple animations, I lost all but two figures.  I worked in the file one day and everything seemed fine so I saved it and closed the file and program.  Later that day I opened the file up to find my figures gone and no trace of them.  It appears that I am only left with the first and last figures that I had in the file.  Anyone else experience this and have any idea what the cause or solution could be to this issue?

Comparing Cadence schematics. I point to the *.cpm file and Creo stops working.

Add extend line function/button to sketcher to simplify extending line process and speed up sketch creation.   SW has very simple and easy to use extend line button.   Click the Extend Button, click on the line or curve you want to extend. Done! The line extends to the next line in sketcher. Click again and it extends to the next line again. How simple/quick and easy is that?   No need to identify and delete existing end point constraint, drag line, then reattach......Often it is hard to identify which constraint to delete and invariably select the wrong one first.   Works with straight lines, circular curves, ellipses, solid and construction lines.   If line/curve is constrained at the endpoint of another curve, when you extend the line/curve the existing endpoint constraint is maintained whilst a new one is automatically made at the new endpoint.   Which end of the line extends depends on which half of the line you click on. To extend the other end of th

We currently do and have done numerous piping and electrical schematics in AutoCAD. We are wanting make a change to Creo Schematics at the beginning of 2017. With our existing drawings in AutoCAD, will we have trouble inserting them into Creo, and if so what can we expect?   Thanks

Does Creo View Express 3.0 allow you to change the color of parts? If so, can you tell me how?

When creating an illustration, and using section view of the model, capping the section does not affect to the SVG export in any way. Creo Illustrate needs to cap the section when exporting to SVG as well. The lines behind the capped geometry are visible in the SVG export, but not in the illustration. Attached are the capped section.png which shows what is the illustration setup, and SVG export that has been done from the illustration. Related PTC Case: CS257887

In case of using a real number model parameter in a sketch text, the leading zero of a parameter whose value is less than 1 appears. Users may want to remove that zero from the text.

Is there a way to save any images or illustrations with either no background or a transparent background?

Last week I made several annotations in one of my Creoview representations.  I saved them. I know I saved them because I closed out of the program and got back to them the next day. Now, I open the Creoview representation and I do see any annotations. What might have happened to them?  I didn't o anything to erase them. The drawing is going through an approval loop in Windchill, could that have affected the annotation set? Thanks, Kenny.

When I use Creo Illustrate, and do a File\import\Link\ I get a list of .pvz files that the program will open from inside the program. A .3cdi file will not open from inside Creo Illustrate.However, If I double click on a .3cdi file (and Creo Illustrate has not been started), Creo Illustrate starts up and the .3cdi file is opened without any problem.I am still fairly new to Creo Illustrate so the answer to my question may be quite obvious. Please help me to understand.We use both types of files where I work and do not differentiate any (at this time) between the two forms  -.pvz and .3cdi -. What is the difference?Why does Creo have to handle them differently?Thank you.Neal LewisTechnical Writer AGCO Corp.