Is it posible to replicate the WF4 Show/Erase tool in Creo2?

[dcorbishley]

Annotating drawings.

The functionality of the SHOW/ERASE command for pre-Creo versions appears to have been lost in Creo2.

Example; one can show the axis in a view once only, it appears that having shown the axis, that axis does not show again in the 'tick box list'

If an axis is shown, then picked and erased, but is required to be shown again there does not appear to be the old style show/erase options as with pre-Creo versions.

Datum planes used for tolerancing also seem difficult to manage.

Does anyone have a solution to this please?

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[StephenW · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately it is gone, I don't believe there is a way to get it back.

Things I have learned:

Don't erase anything shown, make sure you use delete. Erase is like hide in the view.

Use the drawing tree to find erased items in views. When you expand a view in the drawing tree, expand datums and it show the erased axis and datums in that view, I usually select and delete them right there.

Same for annotations, don't erased shown or created dimensions, delete them. You can find erased dimensions in the drawing tree also under annotations.

[dcorbishley]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the reply, we’ve had a go and it does work as you have advised.