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1-Visitor
June 3, 2016
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Another strange day in the life of Creo

  • June 3, 2016
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I have an assembly that has a sub-assembly within it. The assembly resides in Folder A and the sub-assembly resides in Folder B. Both folders are mutually exclusive but do exist at the same structure level. I.E. the folders are peers.

Nothing is in cache or in session. I have Erased Not Displayed, I have no Search Paths in my current session config. But when I open the assembly from folder A, Creo magically...somehow knows to go and get the sub-assembly from folder B. That should not be happening in Creo. If I were working in Solidworks, I would not be surprised.

I have been doing this Creo stuff for quite some time and I have not had this happen.


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23-Emerald III
June 3, 2016

Uh oh.  Is this in one session or have you restarted creo?

DeanLong1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
June 3, 2016

Only in one session. I did restart and saw that it behaves normally when opening the first time and then goes pear-shaped after that.

Some other atypical things at play with this one. I have a Step file created from Altium (Circuit board software) that is within sub-assembly B. I also have sub-assembly C that is a different version of the PCBA that behaves the same.

It's a strange day, Stephen!

23-Emerald III
June 3, 2016

I think I have seen this before. If you open it once by navigating to the folder, creo seems to leave a breadcrumb trail. Even though you erase not displayed, it still keeps the breadcrumbs to that folder.

I can't test it at the moment.

DeanLong1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
June 3, 2016

How do I give Stephen and Doug half a star for both answering correctly?

It is a strange one for me as I have always had (at least it seems so) Erase in session/Not displayed get rid of the links.

23-Emerald III
June 3, 2016

Doug's link shows it started at Creo 1. Probably before that it worked as EXPECTED!!!

21-Topaz II
June 3, 2016

Actually, WF5:

There was a Change in product specification with Creo Elements/Pro 5.0 F000

That's Sept 2009, over 6.5 years ago.