Creo Elements/Direct Ideas

In all modeling versions, options for standard-compliant representation according to ISO 2553 are missing ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. We extrude and process aluminum profiles. We belongs to Hydro Aluminium Extrusion. Have a look to www.hydro.com My job is to be responsible for the CAD in the Raeren plant Belgium. We started 1988 with Hp ME10 under SRM then UNIX. Stakeholders are our CAD users in the design departments. We are using PTC Creo Elements Direct Drafting + Modeling in several Plants. 2. What product and version are you currently running? Creo Elements Direct Drafting + Modeling up to 20.4 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. (Weiter unten auch auf Deutsch) Dimensioning of a drawing takes about 50% of the time . There is a great potential for improvement. The commands for Tangent Dimension 'DA_DIM_TAN' in Drafting and 'am_create_dim_tang' in Annotation was a big improvement. Previously we had to split the arcs at the right place before you could dimension them. If the command is active it is necessary to make three or fife entries. First element, the second element and position of the dimension text. At 'parallel to' or 'perpendicular to' two supplementary clicks. The chain dimensioning saves lots of clicks because after the firs dimension you just have just to select only the next element and the dimension number is automatically positioned. But if the geometry is composed by arcs and other elements chain dimensioning is not possible. You have to place each dimensions individually and enter the different commands again and again.. If the chain dimension would also recognize fillets, arcs, circles, it would be a great simplification of the dimension process. All kinds of dimensions should be improved in this way. Die Bemaßung einer Zeichnung nimmt etwa 50 % der Zeit in Anspruch . Dort gibt es ein großes Verbesserungspotential. Die Befehle für die Tangentenbemaßung „DA_DIM_TAN“ in Drafting und „am_create_dim_tang“ in Annotation waren eine große Verbesserung. Vorher mussten wir die Bögen an der richtigen Stelle teilen, bevor Sie sie bemaßen konnten. Wenn der Befehl aktiv ist, müssen drei oder fünf Eingaben gemacht werden. Erstes Element, zweites Element und Position des Maßtextes. Bei 'parallel zu' oder 'senkrecht zu' zwei zusätzliche Klicks. Die Kettenbemaßung spart viele Klicks, denn nach der ersten Bemaßung braucht man nur noch das nächste Element auszuwählen und der Bemassungstext wird automatisch positioniert. Wenn die Geometrie jedoch aus Bögen und anderen Elementen besteht, ist eine Kettenbemaßung nicht möglich. Sie müssen jede Bemaßung einzeln platzieren und die verschiedenen Befehle immer wieder und wieder neu eingeben. Wenn die Kettenbemaßung auch Verrundungen, Bögen, Kreise erkennen würde, wäre das eine große Vereinfachung des Bemaßungsprozesses. Alle Arten von Bemassungen sollten auf diese Weise verbessert werden. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Save time and simplify monotonous work. Of course, I don't mean the dimensioning itself, but the effort involved. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? For the whole company ? I can not estimate a financial value. But a lot of my colleagues would be very happy about that. Yes, I submitted this as an idea back in 2013, but I'd like to try again because I think it's important. ... View more

I wrote the case C16156676 after that I discovered that .sdcc files are not auto-associable and I found the article CS190813 that talked about the opposite, the customer asked a way to not auto-associate. The response of my case is:   In Windchill help center page for 10.0 and same exists also for 10.1 saying that associate and auto-associate is not possible for several object types including Containers: 10.0: http://support.ptc.com/cs/help/windchill_hc/wwgm100_hc/index.jspx?id=AdminConfig-WWGMCEDMAutoAssociate&action=show 10.1: https://support.ptc.com/cs/help/windchill_hc/wwgm101_hc/index.jspx?id=AdminConfig-WWGMCEDMAutoAssociate&action=show       Note Associate and auto-associate actions are supported only for CAD documents of type: part, assembly, and drawing. These actions are not supported for other Creo Elements/Direct Modeling CAD documents, such as container, workplane, workplane set, and instance, which cannot form owner associations with parts. For some reason, this note was removed from later Help Center versions. But as it seems, it was already not supported in 10.0 and 10.1 and is not working in later releases. PTC Product Development team informed that this behavior should be expected also in current release that there is no support for Container parts (.sdcc parts) to have auto-associate functionality, even it is not supported in WGM 12.1 Please note that we raised SPR 13391369 against documentation. The document you referred us to is obsolete and has been removed in the meanwhile from the database.   Thanks for you understanding !   Then now I would like an option to enable it. Thanks ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. My company is a Manufacturing Company, I am a "Project Optimization Engineer PLM" but for you I am a Windchill Administrator and Customizer. My stakeholders are the Windchill and CAD users, many departments of the company. 2. What product and version are you currently running? Windchill Pdmlink 12.0.2.2, Creo Parametric 7.0.6.0, Creo Elements Direct Modeling and Drafting 20.4.1.0, Creo Illustrate 8.0, Creo View 8.1. 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. I would like to sort a column of the Annotation BOM table. I've just opened a case in the past, C11155089, closed by ptc, then I created an Idea 458278 recently archived. Then I have to create a new one, this one, because I need this thing yet, after 10 years. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Sometimes users want to sort the table for name, sometimes for codes, or descriptions. They have to be free. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Drawings can be more clear to our suppliers, less errors, more business. ... View more

  Transfer the Windchill states of CAD files from UWGM to CAD client like Creo elements Direct Modeling as Windchill internal keywords but not as localized strings.   Currently the Windchill state of a model (assembly, part etc.) is transferred as a localized string while loading into a CAD client. This will lead into different messages for different languages. See Creo Elements Direct Modeling German example: English example: In case of certain defined custom actions each implementation must evaluate a localized string as for Trigger an action based on the state of a loaded CAD file Color coding within the CAD structure browser based on state Setting write protection based on state Adding new models based on a Library Adding a new standard part from a library like CADENAS or PartLibrary Advise the user based on the state to execute an action Not allowed to Checkout in case the model is out of date Not allowed to Checkout in case the model is already checked out by someone else Proposal to overcome that requirement The UWGM has to send keywords like the Windchill internal strings (see left column in following table) or simply by number coding e.g. in a binary system. The required localization to display the readable value will happen on the client CAD system only with appropriate local message files.   Benefit for customer and PTC partner Any kind of customization or third party integration has only take care about the keywords or numbers independent from the language the CAD system is running. Easier integration Stability and update process The display of the the localized messages is done on client side and no need to transfer them from UWGM to CAD client (load and update performance)   ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. My company is a manufacturing company, I am a "Project Engineer for PLM & design services". My stakeholders are Windchill and CAD users in the design department. 2. What product and version are you currently running? Creo Elements Direct Modeling 20.4.1, Creo Elements Direct Drafting 20.3.2, Windchill PDM Link 12.1, Windchill 12.0.2 and other PTC products 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. When creating a sheet metal part in Creo Elements Direct Modeling with several bends and lips there is currently no warning for overlapping contours in the „Unfold 2D“ command in Sheet Metal or the „Create Flat“ in Annotation.   Unfold 2D command in Sheet Metal module, sample of simple overlapping bends: Create flat command in Annotation, sample of simple overlapping bends: Users in the design department have to unfold complex sheet metal parts to get a feedback from Creo Elements Direct Modeling if the part is ok or not.   4. What is the use case for your organization? Parts with overlapping contours in flat and generated XML files can not be manufactured. Normally in follow up processes the error is identified and rejected for rework. This costs time and money. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? The biggest business value would be if a check is included that those simple errors could be repaired directly in the first version of the design process before releasing those parts.  ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. My company is a Manufacturing Company, I am a "Project Optimization Engineer PLM" but for you I am a Windchill Administrator and Customizer. My stakeholders are the Windchill and CAD users, many departments of the company 2. What product and version are you currently running? Creo 8.0.7.0, CEDM 20.4.3.0, UWGM 12.1.2.0, Windchill 12.0.2.4. 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. When the user removes from workspace a Drawing, if the 3D Model is in session it is removed. Is wrong because the user can add in the workspace only the Model and open it in session without the drawing, that we don't understand why is not possible remove the drawing once it was added. 4. What is the use case for your organization? The use case is to clean the workspace and to work only on the objects to change. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? With this behavior there is the risk to lose unsaved models.   I checked in the support site and I found the article CS328677  with SPR 10283958 not viewable by me and I asked with a new case C16756288 information about the spr, the support replied to me linking my case to an other similar article CS367076 without SPR giving to me a bad feedback: Works to product specification   But there is also: A change in functionality is being considered for a future release by Product Management but no timeline can be committed to at this time   Then I'm creating this idea to collect votes and speed up the process. Thanks. Nicola ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. My company is a Manufacturing Company, I am a "Project Optimization Engineer PLM" but for you I am a Windchill Administrator and Customizer. My stakeholders are the Windchill and CAD users, many departments of the company. 2. What product and version are you currently running? Windchill Pdmlink 12.0.2.2, Creo Parametric 7.0.6.0, Creo Elements Direct Modeling and Drafting 20.4.1.0, Creo Illustrate 8.0, Creo View 8.1. 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. I opened a case in the past, C12237071 PTC closed the case linking to the article CS201935 (not part of functionality), then I found an Idea, 475982, and I voted it. Now I see that it was archived, I have to create a new one. This one. The request is to have a way to change some things in Windchill for PartLibrary parts. Now users have to copy the part, to change it and to substitute it where it is used...very lost of time and resources. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Change a material for a library part just saved in Windchill, then change the density. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Less time lost for cad users is more business for the company. ... View more

We have a lot of customers that are using Creo Elements Direct Modeling and are working on projects with an architectural background. A lot of customers need to place their machines in a building and this building is delivered in IFC file format. Some of these architects also need to receive an IFC file back.   Please make this an enhancement for the following version(s) because this is really needed by a lot of our customers. ... View more

Now most customers are using multi-CPUs(processors) machines. Buy expensive machine and expensive software, it is very waste for us. As I know, NX 8.0, solidworks 2012 and CATIA are support multi-CPUs(processors). It seems only PTC software don't support this. ... View more

Who has already experienced the same, adding a COTS component (Component of the shelf) to your design e.g. downloaded from the manufactures portal and integrating it to your design and having added the mass properties to that object (part / assembly) and searching the assembly for the reason why the mass is so wrong? Or creating a copy of such a COTS and or making geometrical modifications to this object, then trying to get rid of assigned mass properties?   For sure the assigned mass properties  can be changed, but to remove them it is really hard and a easy and direct way is missing. Also a search functionality to discover such objects is missing. I came across looking for a faulty part in an assembly, as from the assembly report the mass 100% wrong an I could not find the part easy causing this problem.   So community, what do you think about enhancing the functionality in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling to easy search and filter for objects with "Assigned Mass Properties" and a function to remove "Assigned Mass Properties" from a selected object directly.   Any Feedback by the community is appreciated. What do you all think?   BR Thomas ... View more

Structure Browser in modeling supports customizations about Browser Views (with command sd-create-browser-view), you can add your views with your columns (sd-create-column-definition). You can define view and edit functions for each column (display-fnc and edit-fnc) but you can't define constraints about values inserted, like a drop-down list. I need it.   The same feature is naturally present in Creo Parametric (with restricted_val_definition): I've just tried to ask it in a ptc case 13980076 with this response:   I spoke with my colleague and he is also the opinion that this is not possible with IKIT. I think you know where to find the complete documentation of IKIT. Please see following article. https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS118457 If you want you can submit a product idea. Thanks ... 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

We need a possibility to stop the current command, when Modeling and Annotation does not respond. We have no possiblitiy to insert a command in the commandline of Modeling or Annotation. SD-kill.exe or Ctrl+Break or Esc does not stop the command. The only solution is to close the Modeling in the Task Manager, unsaved work is lost. ... View more

Sweeping a 2D-profile is not realistic bore/mill .   The sweep of a 2d geometry is not the real result as you would get it when sweeping / lofting a real 3d body.   In Sweep you should be able to select 3D Bodies as well to sweep them along a curve to have the correct / realistic sweep. Then it would be possible to see the undercuts as well.   Many 3D CAD Programs support sweep of 3D-Bodies. Modeling should also be able to do this.   Screenshot of SolidWorks 2011 Help:     ... View more

Hello @ all,   to complete the Model based Definiton in Creo Elements direct to an useful Level, it should support Combined view functionality like Creo Parametrics.   This Feature is already available in Creo 6 and should be adopt to creo Elements/direct 20.x.     ... 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

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. I am working at Herrenknecht (manufacturer of tunnel boring machines) as a CAD Admin / Trainer. 2. What product and version are you currently running? Creo Elements direct Modeling V20.3.1 We are currently on the way to prepare the update to V20.5.x 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. PTC Case: C16506623 In Annotation section views it is not possible to switch on (= "manage" command) objects (parts / assemblies) whitch has a cutting protection (= "secure" command) and which are lieing ahead of the cutting line 4. What is the use case for your organization? Section views in offertdrawings 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? A better overview in extensive / complex section views, clear views / drawings with a good overview and which are not confusing ... 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