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VeqTor1-Visitor
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July 1, 2022
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Added viewables have suddenly disappeared from the parent PVZ file

  • July 1, 2022
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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)?

 

Add Viewables to Session.png

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VeqTor1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
July 1, 2022

PS: I believe that the problem occurred after this dialog suddenly appeared, which I quickly clicked away with o.k.:

 

Select Primary Representation.png

 

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).

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VeqTor1-VisitorAuthor
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July 3, 2022

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:

vecTor_0-1656864572058.png

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)

vecTor_2-1656864829385.png

...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:

vecTor_3-1656868153816.png

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.

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BillRyan16-Pearl
16-Pearl
July 5, 2022

Doing the combinations of saving/editing structures, adding viewables and saving annotation sets at the same time is flaky.  My workaround is to perform save as to new PVZ file frequently.   The save all you have in your image I have found to not be reliable.  

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