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canderson10-Marble
10-Marble
March 20, 2013
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Creo View Drawing Compare

  • March 20, 2013
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Creo View Drawing Compare.. seems like we took something that should be easy and made it very hard. Why can't I find the drawing I want to compare two seperate revisions or iterations of that I find on the details page with the history tab, select the two objects and choose open in CREO VIEW. Then In Creo View I should be able to do something as easy as select the two and pick a compare action.

What is the deal with adding to clipboard "and you cannot add them both from the history tab, it claims it adds them but it dosn't". You have to go to each of the objects detail page in order to have the drawings show up on the clip board. Now you have to go to the clipboard and select both objects and choose to open in Creo view.

Once you get the objects in Creo.. not very intuitive regarding the compare option or getting the overlay of the two drawings....

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GregoryPERASSO
GregoryPERASSO16-Pearl
16-Pearl
March 20, 2013

Hello

you should create an idea. I'll will vote for ...

regards

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VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
May 18, 2013

Hi,

You can bring your idea here in "Ideas": http://communities.ptc.com/community/creo?view=idea

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rkrishna1-Visitor
1-Visitor
December 13, 2013

Hello

Could you please elaborate the process?

I could not able to compare the both revisions of the drawing.

If you give details step that would be appreciated..

GregoryPERASSO
GregoryPERASSO16-Pearl
16-Pearl
December 16, 2013

From the history table, select 2 versions of the drawing and add them to the clipboard

Then go to clipboard, select the 2 versions and open in Creo View

In Creo View you cans now use the compare tool to superpose the 2 drawings ...

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canderson10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
December 16, 2013

Gregory, If only it were that easy..

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rkrishna1-Visitor
1-Visitor
December 20, 2013

Cari, I have tried options as you suggested, but I’m not able to view the drawings in single window, can we compare the drawings in CREO VIEW LITE?

If yes do I need to change any settings…?

In CREO VIEW LITE most options showing but they are not in active…Please help how to solve it..

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dschenken1-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 9, 2014

If you can stand to export them as PDF, use Adobe Photoshop (PS) /Photoshop Elements (PSE) to overlay them. The result can be saved as a multi-layer pdf with markups. Tools within PS make it easy to nudge moved views, check views that are moved to other sheets, and find even single character changes in notes. I've remarked on the method on this site, if you care to search for it.

Since it works with anything available in a PDF or bitmap, it can be used to compare scanned drawings to CAD generated ones.

I've tried GIMP for this purpose, but GIMP is slow enough that the price of PSE is more than worthwhile.

Creo View MCAD may work for this, though I haven't seen any vector based markups handle views and other objects that can move on a page or to other pages. If comparing is all you need, Creo View MCAD looks like a steamshovel for digging a flower bed. Obviously it is much more capable for non-comparison purposes.

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canderson10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
January 9, 2014

Bottom line... great consept extremly poor execution. This is why the tool is not widely adopted and the many many enginers I pushed to use this functionality stopped because they forget how....

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