3D Part & Assembly Design

Hi,Would anyone know how to prevent Creo 10 from creating cap surfaces for tapped holes while using the Creo Parametric Hole feature?The surface shown in the image below is not the side wall of the thread but a cap surface at the top of the thread.  This makes you have to query select the hole which is an extra step when assembling parts to the tapped hole at the top-level assembly.Thanks for any help you can provide,Don A  

Hi everyone,I am running a kinematic/position study in Creo Mechanism and trying to graph specific measures. However, several models in the assembly contain Mass Property analysis features.This is causing severe performance lags. Mechanism is regenerating every single one of these models at every frame of the analysis to recalculate mass and surface area, even though these values are static and won't change during the run.In the Analysis feature settings, the available Regenerate options are: Always Read Only Only Design Study Ideally, I want "Always, except during a Mechanism analysis."Has anyone else run into this performance bottleneck? What is the best workaround to temporarily bypass or freeze these mass property calculations while running and graphing a Mechanism study?Thanks in advance!

I'm getting an error when running tasks in CREO: ERROR CODE:3 (SUBCODE7). I've already contacted NVIDIA; we've updated the driver, rolled back to older versions, and tweaked the graphics card settings, but the error keeps coming back. The card is a Quadro P400.   

Hello all,Long time Creo user, i started with a Logitech MX mouse, after a few years had a wrist pain. I switched to MX vertical for several years, no more wrist pain but now it’s the elbow. I read that a trackball could be ergonomically better than a mouse so I’m looking for a model. Anyone here using a trackball ? Do you have a model recommendation ? Models to avoid ? I’m using Creo for CAD and Esprit for CAM.Thanks.

I have a top assembly that has multiple parts that have threads in them. In the part level, they each have a no-threads simplified rep that deactivates a feature (helical sweep) to remove the threads. Note that nothing else is referencing the sweep in features/assembly. In the top level, I have a simplified rep that sets every other part as master while the parts that have threads in them as “User defined” using the no threads rep of the said parts. This works fine as is in changing simplified rep but when you try to create an exploded view, the parts that are user-defined just breaks and not follow the explotion state both in CAD and especially in drawing. You can manually move it in CAD to make it look good but in drawings, they just move around every time.It looks like there’s a similar case in here just in case people have come accross this one for some insight -  

I am using Creo Parametric Release 2.0 and DatecodeM080 规范驱动管路中，螺栓螺母文件插入模型中没有显示正确数量，BOM_REPORT_QUANTITY参数值为0，且工程图明细表中数量显示为空。螺栓螺母文件为主体文件，如何在工程图中创建球标标注。

My group is trying to make a pointer annotation on a whole part inside of an assembly. Right now, only a specific feature on a part gets highlighted. Does anyone know how to highlight the entire part? I have attached a reference below.   

When in the Spec Driven Piping Application in Creo, you can add a valve to your piping assembly by going to the Fitting Section of the application window, selecting Insert Fitting, and selecting the pipeline you want to attach your fitting to. You are then given the option to select what type of fitting (in this case a valve) you want to add to your pipeline and what name you want to that valve before hitting OK and adding it to you model, as shown below:However, if you later realize you want to change the name of this valve (or if you never added a name to the valve when you originally placed it), it appears that there is no option to modify the valve number after placement. For example, if you went to edit the definition of the valve, you are only able to edit the placement of the valve along the pipeline:You can try pulling up the Piping Information of the valve (by going to the Info section of the Piping Application, selecting Piping Info, selecting Fitting Report, and selecting th

I am working with the flat harness tool to create a flat stick assembly of my cable harness. I have worked with the tool previously, so I know the basics behind how to lay out different segments of my cable system.When you select a new segment to flatten, it prompts you for the bend radius and the bend angle. I am running into an issue where the allowable range of the bend angle is extremely small, sometimes even at a fraction of a degree. Previously, I have seen the range go from -180 to 180 degrees, so I am unsure why I am getting such a small bend angle range. Has anyone ran into this issue before? Thank you.

Creo Parametric does not allow you to save an .idx file from an assembly that is in a simplified representation. This would be a helpful add-on in the future.

I am using Creo Parametric Release 11.0 and Datecode11.0.4.0 When I import a .idx file, many of the ECAD components are imported as assemblies. For example, some small resistors end up being 3 different parts that are combined into one assembly. Is this how this is supposed to work?

Hello everyone,I have a question regarding the representation of partial threads in Creo Parametric. There, only a single surface is created for the thread surface together with the hole, which makes it impossible to colour the surface of the thread. We use the following creation method for a partial thread:We like to use colouring to visually show how deep the threads should be cut.Do you have any tips and tricks for this, or is this not an issue for you?

Hello,We received from customer Bend table in format which SolidWorks read well, so we are trying to apply that in Creo (Creo 11.0.3), but as we noticed Creo has a little bit different format. It has radius and thickness and values inside are bend allowance if i understood correctly, and the table from SW have thickness, radius , bend angle (which is not affecting k-factor if u see table, so it can be ignored), and k factor as value derived (0.618, 0.619, 0.693....). Does anyone know how that should be applied in Creo and have maybe some examples, or is bend table a right way in Creo to apply this.

Is this possible?  I somehow was thinking I was editing one of my exploded views, but I was actually editing the default view and accidentally changed/saved it.   Can a component(s) be moved back to its original, unexploded position?   Now, every new exploded view I create starts off with the wrong, default explode....

I created this desktop application for managing IFX fastener catalogs. Create new catalogs, add fasteners from templates, and append data rows to existing fastener files. You can also import premade fastener catalogs from McMaster Carr.Compatible with Creo 6 or later.https://github.com/mbourque/ifx_customizer  

Hello, I have random lines on my part and don't know how to hide them. These lines are the exact ones that show when saving an STL file. Does someone know how I can get rid of them?

Greetings, Looking for ideas on how to report sum length of cable spool based on custom length per spool segment used in cable harness.example:spool A - length=L1, custom_length (driven from relation) =CL1, spool used N1 times in harness.total length of spool A =?the problem i have is that I can’t make any relation as there is no way to use rep.qty for cable spools in a harness.summation function is also not very flexable. I would prefer if it was function then I could create a relation with If (example: if spool a name==A sum).Is there another simpler way to solve it? Practically best solution I found is to generate the table  > export to CSV > make simple excel relation.

Would anyone know if you can reference the Component Feature Number (not internal feature ID) in a relation for a filter in an assembly drawing repeat region?Wanting to use features in an assembly model tree, 2 features at a time using their location in an assembly model tree to control what components are displayed in an assembly drawing BOM table on a particular sheet.Basically, if the components are between any 2 features in the model tree that I specify, I want to show them and only the quantities for the parts in the BOM table repeat region on a drawing sheet for the components that reside between the 2 features in the model tree.Features would be named Sheet_2, Sheet_3, Sheet_4, Sheet_5, etc. and could be an annotation feature, datum plane, or other feature.Repeat region filter would be if greater than feature number for Sheet_2 and less than feature number for Sheet_3 display component info and qty of part in that section of model tree in BOM table.Each drawing sheet will build

Hello,I am looking for help with an issue involving sheet metal flat patterns, Creo Parametric, and Creo View.I am using Creo Parametric 10 and Creo View 12. When I create a flat pattern of a sheet metal part in Creo Parametric, the automatically generated bounding box overall length and width dimension annotations display correctly in Creo Parametric.However, when I open the corresponding file in Creo View, those automatically generated flat pattern bounding box dimensions do not appear in the Creo View viewable state.One thing I have noticed is that if I create manual dimensions in Creo Parametric, those manual dimensions do come through and display in Creo View correctly. The issue seems to be specific to the automatically generated dimensions created during flat pattern creation.Has anyone else seen this behavior with automatically generated flat pattern bounding box dimensions not publishing or displaying in Creo View? Are there any settings, publishing options, annotation display

In Creo assembly design, is it a good practice to first validate the concept using Layout, then define a Skeleton model, and finally create parts within the assembly using skeleton references?Does this approach help avoid assembly issues, or are there better recommended workflows?

I Create Perforatted sheet Design,Draw 4mm sq Shape and Corner in 1mm Radius,Using Direction Pattern X and Y, Regeneration process get Long Time Almost 6Hrs,How to Speed Up This Process?

Hello !Using Creo Parametric 9.0.3 here.When I am creating a hole, the default placement type is Linear.Is there a way to change this to something else, like Sketched ? I have looked for a config.pro option but found nothing so far. 

Hello, I have random lines on my part and don't know how to hide them. These lines are the exact ones that show when saving an STL file. Does someone know how I can get rid of them?

When I create break lines for bolt heads and connecting holes, the cylindrical surface has no directional selection, so sometimes the break lines connect directly, while other times they connect with a bent line from the back, making it look messy. Has anyone encountered this problem, and how did you solve it?