nostalgic feeling doing detail drawings

[bbrejcha]

Not much fun doing detailed drawings.  I remember doing detail drawings in the early 90's on Pro/ENGINEER and being able to select 10+ drawings into memory all at once.  Does anyone know what year we lost the ability to load countless drawings?  *not that it's a big deal just being nostalgic LOL

Bart Brejcha

designengine.com 

[BenLoosli]

We don't have any issues with loading multiple drawings into memory. A lot depends on how much memory your computer and graphics card have. I have had about 15-18 loaded before the system complains and says no more can be loaded. We are on Creo 9.

[bbrejcha]

I mean using control - shift select 10+ at a time.

Bart Brejcha

designengine.com 

[RandyJones]

If you are linked to Windchill you can (from the active Workspace) select multiple models and or drawings and then File > Open In > Creo.

[KenFarley]

Don't know if it's been a Creo thing, or a result of the changes to Windows over the intervening years. Since pretty much every program, including Creo, uses the Microsoft based file opening dialog, I'd suspect it's more of a windows thing than something PTC has done.

The <Ctrl>-Select doesn't work in Word or Excel to select multiple files to open, but using a selection rectangle to pick multiple files does.

Creo doesn't allow the "rectangle select" method, either.

[bbrejcha]

My nostalgia goes back to HPUX or IRIX then.  

Bart Brejcha

designengine.com

[KenFarley]

Ah, yes. When you'd do an "uptime" and it wasn't days (if you're lucky) like Windows, but months and months or even a year and that was because you had a power outage. The HP workstation was an expensive thing to buy, but they were so reliable.

[BenLoosli]

Creo does not use the MFC calls for file open as it has no way to display or handle iterations or family table members.