PTC Technical support request

[rmcboaty]

https://support.ptc.com/apps/solution_preview/solution/lang/presolution?lang=en&n=CS233195

could someone please copy and paste the answer to the above customer support case? my company doesn't have the maintenance, but we will probably get it when we transition to creo 4 sometime soon (in a couple of months probably). i would still like to know the answer before that.

basically i have a group that has a couple of features in it and is suppressed for convenience. those features (a couple of holes) are referenced by an outside pattern of datum planes (driven by dimension or table) and can't be patterned and grouped without the parent feature (impossible).

i would like to unsuppress and ungroup this group based on a yes/no in VB and then i would like to apply the reference (always) pattern to all the features in that group.

i suspect it could also be done by a mapkey...

also, is it possible to change a pattern type with VB or mapkey? i would like to change a known (and created) pattern of model datums from dimension to table, if it's needed.

[TomU · Accepted solution]

Don't think support answer is what you were hoping for. 

[rmcboaty]

yeah. thanks.

is it possible to edit a pattern type to table with it, does anyone know?

[sjuraj]

It is possible to create pattern or edit using macros. However you have to notice that macros are run only when your program return control to creo therefore your runmacro method (sub) shoult be called at the end of your code. If you need to make any selections during macro you can use ctrl+f function and edit macro with previously gained informations in your program.

[VladimirN]

Please find in attachment also a PDF version of the contents from this page.

[rmcboaty]

can you please also upload (or copy) this file:

CS172505 - Cannot modify sketch. Error: "Section regeneration failed. Incompatible dimension values." in Creo Parametri…

[TomU]

[rmcboaty]

thanks.

[VladimirN]

Thank you, Tom.

[VladimirN]

Robert,

Please find it in attachment (it also includes a resolution).