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Minor but annoying - easy improvements?

JonathanHodgson
11-Garnet

Minor but annoying - easy improvements?

Following another thread about real-world use versus PTC trainers' knowledge, how about we start a list of small things, which ought to be relatively easy for PTC to change, that nonetheless annoy you on a day-to-day basis (and always seem to be passed over in favour of introducing dashboards and ribbons)?

Since various PTC people contribute here, if we keep it tidy and concise perhaps some of our issues could be considered for addressing in imminent versions of Pro/E / Creo (/wishful thinking...)

So, here are some starters:

  • Angle x D chamfers almost always choose the wrong direction for the angle by default
  • Surface merges almost always choose the wrong sides of the quilts to keep by default
  • Save a Copy leaves you editing the original model (opposite to Windows Save As), whilst Backup leaves you editing the backup model (why would you make a backup and then change the backup?)
  • When you're working in "widget.prt" and you create a new drawing, Pro/E assumes the name "drw0001". How likely is it that you don't want to create "widget.drw" at this point?

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In the component Repeat dialog - often a component will not assemble because an Align constraint now needs to be a Mate constraint (or vice versa), forcing you to abandon the Repeat dialog & assemble from scratch.

Add a "Flip Constraint" button to the Repeat Component dialog would fix this.

(we're on WF3 - maybe this is fixed in later revs?)

In the orientation menu to Orient by reference there are two options to reference a vertical axis and a horizontal axis. The users that are adding holes into surfaces are asking to orient the view by using NORMAL axis. Good examples are mounting mirrors to hoods or fairing support brackets on a cab. This is WF5 functionality...so apologize if in Creo 2.0.

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