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TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
March 4, 2015
Question

Toggle Layer Tree Display in Creo Parametric 3.0

  • March 4, 2015
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Curious if anyone has figured out how to toggle between the model tree and the layer tree in Creo Parametric 3.0.

 

We used the following mapkey in WF3 - WF5. It worked great.

 

mapkey $F2 @MAPKEY_NAMEDisplay Layer Tree;@MAPKEY_LABELDisplay Layer Tree;\

mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `ProCmdViewLyrs.view`;

 

Creo 3 has changed the commands used to display the layer tree. So far I've been unable to figure out how to make them toggle. I would prefer to not use two separate mapkeys and/or constantly reload config files with alternate versions of the mapkey.

 

Thanks!


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Jose_Costa12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
March 19, 2015

Hello,

I tried several ways, just editing the mapkeys text but I haven't found a solution too...

Unfortunately, it seems that now you need to recur to something like Autoit or AutoHotKey to achieve this (maybe PTC should include them in Creo installation? ).

I think that this can be done with a batch file too:

1 - A mapkey that calls a batch file, inside the b file a variable is toggled and it writes some text to a trail file.

2 - The mapkey ends reading the trailfile.

That should do it.

Jose.

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Jose_Costa12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
April 10, 2015

Second attempt...

I made it just with mapkeys, but still not a elegant solution.

Paste the mapkeys in your config pro and call mapkey "L".

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Jose_Costa12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
April 10, 2015

Great!!

I made a mapkey to hide and show specific layers with just one click using the previous method. And is easy to replicate just changing the layer name in the code:

2015-04-10 23_33_05-C__moldes_layer-toggle3.pro - SciTE [1 of 3].png

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dschenken1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 10, 2015

Just to note - the mapkey can reload the alternate config and the alternate config can be a single mapkey. I make them text files, named for what they do, like mapkey_feature_on.txt and mapkey_feature_off.txt. Each one ends with the commands to load the other one.

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Jose_Costa12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
April 11, 2015

Yes, I do know that.

Currently I have some working that way.

I´m just testing other methods since that mapkeys tend to stop working sometimes in some computers.

Thanks anyway.

Jose

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Jose_Costa12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
May 18, 2016

My best solution until now:

mapkey $F2 %la_hide;




mapkey la_hide ~ Command `ProCmdViewLyrs`  0;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Command `ProCmdRibbonOptionsDlg` ;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Select `ribbon_options_dialog` `PageSwitcherPageList` 1 `ConfigLayout`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `ribbon_options_dialog` `ConfigLayout.AddOpt`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Input `add_opt` `InputOpt` `mapkey`; ~ Update `add_opt` `InputOpt` `mapkey`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `add_opt` `InputOpt`;~ FocusOut `add_opt` `InputOpt`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Update `add_opt` `EditPanel` `$F2 %la_show`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `add_opt` `EditPanel`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `ribbon_options_dialog` `OkPshBtn`;




mapkey la_show ~ Command `ProCmdViewLyrs`  1;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Command `ProCmdRibbonOptionsDlg` ;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Select `ribbon_options_dialog` `PageSwitcherPageList` 1 `ConfigLayout`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `ribbon_options_dialog` `ConfigLayout.AddOpt`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Input `add_opt` `InputOpt` `mapkey`; ~ Update `add_opt` `InputOpt` `mapkey`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `add_opt` `InputOpt`;~ FocusOut `add_opt` `InputOpt`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Update `add_opt` `EditPanel` `$F2 %la_hide`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `add_opt` `EditPanel`;\


mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `ribbon_options_dialog` `OkPshBtn`;

It works great on my computer, and it's a more simple way.

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