topic Re: Datum plane sized to referenced geometry in 3D Part & Assembly Design

Datum plane sized to referenced geometry

wakeboarding77 — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 11:47:05 GMT

Is there an option in Creo that upon creation of a plane, the size of the plane is scaled to the size of its references. the option is in the plane menu but a PIA to do this every time.

Re: Datum plane sized to referenced geometry

tbraxton — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:26:51 GMT

I do not think this is available. The datum size is dynamic by default. I think it is based on the bound box of the model which changes with the creation of geometry in the model.

One workaround that may work for you is to create a datum feature and define the size related to your chosen reference entities. You can then copy and paste this should you need multiple datums using the same reference and they will be sized accordingly. This is a narrow use case and will not solve the general case you are asking about.

Re: Datum plane sized to referenced geometry

StephenW — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:51:20 GMT

I think your best bet is to make a mapkey.

Select the datum , activate the mapkey that does all the selection for you, pause for selection of the actual reference. It would be pretty quick.

Re: Datum plane sized to referenced geometry

Patriot_1776 — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 20:10:16 GMT

"PI(T)A"? You think so? God forbid you might have to actually put effort into anything... *facepalm*

Re: Datum plane sized to referenced geometry

wakeboarding77 — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:26:41 GMT

God forbid that an engineer strive to be efficient.

Re: Datum plane sized to referenced geometry

wakeboarding77 — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:28:14 GMT

I thought about that but it is about as many clicks as just doing in manually. The amount of button click in this software among other things is less than desirable. But it is what it is.

Re: Datum plane sized to referenced geometry

Patriot_1776 — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:57:14 GMT

Takes 2 seconds to do it. If you can complain about this insignificant bit of work and want it changed, then you have far too much time on your hands. If PTC did that, then whiners would complain that they couldn't manually size the datum feature anymore. For reference, in older versions you weren't able to resize it at all, we were HAPPY to get the ability to resize datums.

There are FAR more important issues PTC needs to be working on. Solid body cuts being one of them. *facepalm*