Select the midpoint of an edge

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May 31, 2022
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It surprises me that, while running through the different PTC forums, I did not find the answer to a lack in Creo Parametric that seems so obvious to me and to other users who have worked with other CAD systems like SOLIDWORKS, Inventor, NX...

In all these CAD systems, it is possible to select the midpoint of a line or an edge (eg to measure between two midpoints). No problem at all. In Creo Parametric, this simple functionality isn't available at all. Or am I wrong?

Any comment is appreciated, as long as it is polite!

Kind regards,

Philip Olieux

General

Best answer by tbraxton

You can submit product ideas for enhancements here:

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Creo-Parametric-Ideas/idb-p/creoparametric

I would strongly suggest that you create a whitepaper that goes into detail about the issue to define workflows and how the UI could be structured to improve things. Just stating that it needs to be more like product X because it is better is not going anywhere within PTC.

If you really want to maximize your input I would suggest getting involved with the technical committees to get enhancements discussed in that forum. The TCs have more exposure directly to the product managers responsible for developing the product.

tbraxton

22-Sapphire II

It is certainly possible to measure the distance between the midpoint of two curves/edges in Creo. In most cases you would need to create a datum point on the curves at the midpoint which can be done within sketcher or as a feature if you anticipate the need for them.

Within the measure tool you can create datums on the fly (midpoints) to get the result. There is a config option that controls whether these on the fly datums are temporary or not.

Option: keep_info_datums

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Philip_Olieux

Author

11-Garnet

Hello, thanks for your reply.

I know about the possible answers you mention, but these take too much effort to get the expected result. PTC should enhance the Creo Parametric program with this kind of stuff if they really want to compete with other CAD systems...