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relevant learnings from the PTC Live Global event.

nrollins
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relevant learnings from the PTC Live Global event.

Hi folks,



Other than the huge item we all are discussing regarding PTCUser. there are
a couple of things that I learned that we have discussed on here recently.



Creo 3.0 has a lot of decent changes that we will like - among which are:

you can specify 3 colors for draft check.

MMB to kill the measure tool

Those two really please me.



Another that I am excited with cautious optimism: they've reconstructed the
edit references tool to have a dashboard and added a handful of tools that -
in the DEMO - make it look much more helpful. We'll see.



Honestly, I have never been looking forward to an F000 build before, but I
am now. It seems like they have done a decent job and have addressed issues
and added functionality to make 3.0 much better. Again, we'll see.



I have never used Creo Direct or the Freestyle tool that comes in Creo
Parametric, but I saw demos on both and I am intrigued. The Freestyle
feature now is able to be tied to parametric geometry so one can control the
freestyle geometry to some extent.



RMB context menus are now configurable - in a very limited way, but the
promise was made that the freedom of customizing will grow in subsequent
releases. There are now icons in the RMB menus for redefine and reroute
making selection of those commands much easier and quicker. They have not
improved the ribbon scheme at all.



Dynamic interference check. I didn't see it really, only heard about it.



Smart fasteners - again, not sure how it works, but the demo showed a bolt
selected and positioned in the assy where it needed to go and the clearance
and threaded holes in the parts were created and washer assembled
automatically. I see that as not working as well in real life, but it could
be a time saver.



Chordal round was added (keep constant width.)



Ref Pattern does not req. the leader to be used.



Also,



We had a thread on here not too long ago about the (lack of a) materials
database inside Creo - I met a company in the Expo that offers just that -
materials database for Creo. He would not tell me what it cost, so you know
it isn't $50 - probably more like $5000 - who knows. But it might be of
interest to some - grantadesign.com



Back to work.



-Nate


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I think the option is :

measure_auto_replace_mode yes

Are you missing the _mode?

Bill Chapman
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Tel: 708-496-3100 | Cell: 708-205-5705

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No, sorry, I got distracted while I was typing the option - I have it complete and the status is active.

Perhaps I just don't remember how to use the tool. For example, I thought that when measuring distance I used to click on first point, then ctrl-click on a second point to measure, and then could ctrl-click on a third point and the measurement would update from first/second to first/third. Now when I do that, it displays the locations of all three points. What I can do is select first, second, and third, then deselect second, which doesn't seem very useful. What is the correct method?

Regards,
James
rreifsnyder
13-Aquamarine
(To:nrollins)

Chris - I agree, but most people want model dimensions that can be shown and if you aren't putting the datums early, how can the model be built that way?

Dean - As with Chris, I agree with most of your points, however, I would like to point out that datum structure should NOT be based on manufacturing. Datum structure is based on part function. You do need to think about how the part will be inspected, but only in the respect that the datums need to be of sufficient size for the part to be staged according to them when inspecting. The most common misunderstanding is the thought that the largest flat surface should be "A" for instance.

Rob Reifsnyder
Mechanical Design Engineer/ Producibility Engineer / Components Engineer / Pro/E SME / Pro/E Librarian
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In Reply to Christopher Gosnell:


If CREO3 still shows ghosts of missing refs during reroute that is almost enough of a reason to jump over upgrading to CREO2 right to CREO3. Thanks for the info.

Christopher F. Gosnell

FPD Company
124 Hidden Valley Road
McMurray, PA 15317
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