Creo Elements/Direct Ideas

I hope for providing support for Open Source Java for Creo Elements Direct Model Manager. I think it's possible to reduce customer's burden and to make easy to upgrade by offering to  provide support for Open Source Java. ... View more

In a two screen environment:   1. If the Model Manager window is maximized on the bigger screen, it is impossible to drag this window to the other smaller screeIn. The window has to be minimized first.   This should be possible like it is in other windows appications.   2. Model Manager stores window positions in wm_properties.lst. This can cause problems when a Model Manager window is placed on the second screen and you restart Model Manager on a single window environment. (beamer). In this case the window doesnt appear. Model Manager should restore windows only on positons really visible in the current environment. The workround suggested in Article - CS130367 is unsatisfying because manually editing the wm_properties.lst should be avoided     ... View more

Some of our customers are requesting some functionality to simplify a downloaded assembly. Lots or users download parts from the internet, from suppliers, but are not interested in every detail of this assembly. Only the outer faces are important, and since Annotation now can update face parts, it even can be a face part.   The reason is that downloaded assemblies sometimes take up to a lot of Mb's, and filesize could be reduced multiple times having only 1 part or face part. Resulting in the ability to load bigger assemblies, less graphic performance... Cleaning them up takes quite some time, which is lost in the end, so you would gain also man-hours!   The current Simplification functionality is not sufficient in this case, and a relation to the original part is not necessary anymore at all.   Breaking it down, we would like to have some functionality to select only visible faces in a certain direction, just like Annotation does when it creates a view from a part. Doing this in 6 directions would give us already a pretty good result. Just keep in mind: it should work with an assembly! ... View more

The icon bitmap of Creo Elements/Direct Modeling and Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager are same. And our customer often makes a mistake, He selects Creo Elements/Direct Modeling icon from "Windows Task Bar" in spite of he needs Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager. You may need to change the icon of Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager. ... View more

(Per CS213937) Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager Web Client doesn't free the acquired license until the Creo Elements/Direct Manager Java Services are restarted or the License Server itself   Model Manager Web Client doesn't free the acquired license until the Creo Elements/Direct Java Services are restarted or the License Server itself Even if the user log off or closes the web browser Web Client still doesn't release the license Need restart either of the Model Manager Java Services or of the License Server itself   This seems really lame. The MM web client license(s) should be released after a (configurable) timeout or if the user logs out, or according to some other more intelligent algorithm.  The current behavior is a very inefficient use of licenses and is inexcusable. ... View more

If the LAN connection is broken and then reconnected while ModelManager is running, automatically reconnect the ModelManager client to the database when the LAN connection is reestablished. ... View more

I have a customer with big models with a lot of parts, and Model manager go out fo memory. I already set the java memory value to maximum (about 1610Mb, with bigger value Model Manager doesn't start) but it is not enough. So, I think is time to make a 64bit version. Are there any plans about it? ... View more

Until ModelManager 20.1 we had an option to switch to windows-like look and feel. In run.bat: set JVM_ARGS=%JVM_ARGS% -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.osm.ui.laf.ptc.PtcLaf With 20.2 this switch no longer works.      Please modify Look and Feel like in previous versions. ... View more

wmproperties.lst contains a lot of (UI) user preferences settings, that should not be edited. Make these settings open for administrators/users, by    - implement a “preference style” syntax that can be put into the XML file     - user can change these predefined settings    - Allow to protect certain settings (also a feature of a preference)    - Allow to reset user settings to defaults in XML ... View more

A small detail, but one I often hear.  When running Drafting and Drg Manager, the Icons in the Win Task bar are the same.  Please can the DM Icon be detailed subtly different, to establish which Icon belongs to which Application. Thanks ... View more

At present it is not possible to use CED products such as the MEls license server or the ModelManager in combination with products that do not support IPv4. An example of this is Microsoft Direct Access, which only supports IPv6. This should be made possible immediately. See also Article - CS188191. ... View more

The STEP export as "Direct" gives many Errors. As a result, follow-on processes are at risk (SAP transfer) and can not be automated.   The TaskAgent should enable the STEP export as "Granite"     ... View more