Hello Community,
I have edited several PVZ files in Creo View MCAD, and added further assemblies, also from PVZ files, via "Add Viewable to Session".
This has worked perfectly for months. Now, however, the added viewables have suddenly disappeared from the corresponding PVZ files that they were added to ("parent files").
However, the added assemblies are still visible in the thumbnails of various annotation sets of the respective parent files.
Based on the previous experience and on this help text, I assume that viewables that have been added in this way are stored inside the parent file, so that the location of the added assembly does not matter after it has been added (as would be the case, for example, with Microsoft OLE Object Linking and Embedding).
The shared location of the parent file and the added viewable has changed in the meantime, but both are still in the same file folder together.
What could be the reason that the added viewables are suddenly no longer present (not even in the model tree)?
PS: I believe that the problem occurred after this dialog suddenly appeared, which I quickly clicked away with o.k.:
I can no longer tell if there were multiple options to select from at the time, or just one option, as in the screenshot above (the two pixelated lines in the screenshot show the same file name, namely that of the parent file in this case).
Now I have recreated the combination of the parent PVZ file and the viewable, added to the parent file.
When I then save the parent file, the following message appears:
This means that the added viewable is not saved in the parent file.
If I then save the combination of parent file and added viewable with "Save Copy Of All As PVZ" (other saving options are not available)
...then the added viewable does get saved in the parent file.
However, now the annotation sets created in the parent file are lost from the new combination file!
So how can I save a parent file along with an added viewable from within Creo View, without losing the annotation sets already present in the parent file?
Also, when I close the parent file (with the viewable embedded in it), the below message comes up, and when I click OK, the message comes up again, any number of times:
In conclusion, this means that the file can no longer be saved at all, neither by Save As, nor by Save All.
Something seems to be seriously broken with Creo View's loaded viewables and annotation sets functionality.
This is a new variant that has come up in the meantime when I add a viewable to a parent file.
This is all confusing; and obviously does not work properly in Creo View.
Thanks for help on how this issue can be resolved.
Thank you Bill,
exactly, I should have done that from the beginning, but at that time I didn't know about the possibility to add external PVZ files in Edit Structure mode.
I tried this for the first time today, and it seems that PVZ files added this way are stored entirely within the parent file, as opposed to the variant of adding external PVZ files as viewables.
Unfortunately, this does not currently help me, as I am unable to insert another PVZ file into my existing parent file, which still contains one of the original embedded viewables, using Edit Structure. When I try to do this by clicking on Edit Structure, the following error message occurs:
When I follow this prompt, the parent file does get saved along with the embedded viewable, but all of my two dozen annotation sets are lost.
Also, the embedded viewable cannot be deleted from this new file anymore, or rather, although it can be formally deleted, it remains in the file and is still selectable.
Other error messages I encountered today when editing annotation sets are the following:
However, the structure still could not be saved, but the last error message kept repeating.
Then, after these error messages appeared, suddenly all annotation sets were broken. Although they are still visible and can be selected, the position and visibility of the parts does not change at all anymore when selecting an annotation set.
I can only clearly conclude from all this that Creo View has disastrous bugs when dealing with annotation sets and embedded viewables.
This is a viewable that was added a longer time ago, which for some reason can no longer be deleted or removed. However, without deleting the viewable, no further assemblies or PVZ files can be added via Edit Structure.
Or is there any other possible way to delete this viewable without losing all annotation sets at the same time?
Update:
Unfortunately, adding a structure with advanced mode structure editing does not work either for me.
When I add a structure (a PVZ file) this way, save the parent PVZ file, close it, and then open it again, the added parts are gone just as often happened before with "added viewables".
This is even though the added structure is still present in the Model Tree. If I then click on a part of the added structure in the model tree, instead of becoming visible, it gets a red exclamation mark, whatever that means:
Anyway, adding and saving assemblies, viewables or structures doesn't work reliably no matter how.
After spending literally weeks on this, I am officially giving up -- with the conclusion that Creo View is highly broken in terms of handling added assemblies, viewables or structures.
Thanks Bill, actually I never use the "Save" button (I don't think there even is one -- except for the unreliable "Save All" button).
Most of the time I just drag another PVZ file into the Creo View window, then Creo View automatically saves the current file 🤷♂️
In this case however, this did not work, because (for a change) this time I got the error message:
In fact, here I used the method Save As to new PVZ file. Nevertheless, the just inserted structure was defective and no longer available, as just described.
