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Display shaded datum plane

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December 29, 2021
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I just installed Creo 8.0.2. I have "Display shaded datum plane" selected and the config.pro option "3D_datum_display_fill" set to yes, but my datums aren't shaded. Anyone have any idea what I'm missing?

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Best answer by MartinHanak

Also, you can rename all config.pro files to hide them for Creo, start Creo and create new part to see datum plane display. If filled datum planes are displayed then your problem is caused by config.pro option.

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VladimirN

24-Ruby III

Hi,

Several solutions can be found in this thread - "When I disable the Plane Fill Display, the Datum doesn't refresh correctly": https://community.ptc.com/t5/3D-Part-Assembly-Design/When-I-disable-the-Plane-Fill-Display-the-Datum-doesn-t-refresh/td-p/740653

P.S. From "Help Center" (configuration options associated with this functionality) - "Shaded 3D Datum Plane Display": https://support.ptc.com/help/creo/creo_pma/r8.0/usascii/index.html#page/whats_new_pma/ux-shaded_3d_datum_display.html

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Greg_McMurray

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I'm aware of the bug regarding the datum planes only displaying the positive side color and not the negative when shading is turned off. There was an SPR filed for that.

But that's a different issue from mine. My problem is that I can't get the datums to shade at all. As you can see in the image, I have selected the datums to be shaded, as explained in Help Center, but they will not shade.

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MartinHanak

24-Ruby III

Hi,

please let us know what values are set for following config.pro options

3D_datum_display_fill
3D_datum_planes_transparency
spin_with_3d_datum_planes
enable_legacy_datum_planes

I guess that enable_legacy_datum_planes is set to yes.

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Greg_McMurray

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For the record and in addition to Martin's excellent solution, the config.pro option that was preventing the datums from being shaded was enable_opengl_shader. I deleted it from the file, and now everything is running smoothly.

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StephenW

23-Emerald III

enable_opengl_shader is set to YES by default. Typically you would set it to NO if you had or have graphics card issue that prevented its use.

I don't know that it matters but if you had graphics card issues, they could "reappear".

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Greg_McMurray

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Thanks, my graphics card is a 4095MB NVIDIA Quadro P5000. There are no issues with it.

I'm switching back to Creo 7 until they work out all this nonsense.

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Greg_McMurray

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Now I see another problem. Some of the components in my assembly are completely hidden by the datum planes. When I hide the planes then I can see them. This occurs with the default empty config.pro file.

I'm beginning to think shaded datum planes aren't quite ready for prime time yet.

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KenFarley

21-Topaz II

Is this a situation where no config.pro file means 0% transparency? Did you try to change the 3D_datum_planes_transparencypercent value to see if it behaves better?