Hi All
I have just found another issue with Creo 2.0 with work cells
I was trying to import a saved work cell last week, but when I tried to load, it came up with a new screen
Now I tried to tick all of these option one by one and load the work cell, but all I got was this message.
I couldn't load any of my saved work cells.
Now we kind of figured it out, we resaved the current work cell in Creo 2.0 under another name and treid to load it again, this time with the option above ticked, I received this box below
then by clicking the box circled and selecting the CSYS as shown below
WE CAN LOAD THE SAVED WORK CELL..
what does this mean, something has changed within work cells from Creo 1/ Pro E to Creo 2, any saved work cell is now useless, so any specials cells you may have created and saved, unless you can open a file with it in place and resaved from within Creo 2.0, can't be used....
PTC need to fix this...
Peter
Peter,
Not exactly sure what you mean by importing work cells? Is this to change from one machine to another in the operation or is this how you set up a new part for machining? I change machines by editing the operation definition then on the upper right hand side I get two pulldowns the first is mfg setup.
If you pull that down at the bottom you getr user defined work centers. You can then add or change to what you want. If it is to start a new manufacturing job I would recommend using start parts with the machining center already in there. I have start parts for each machine with all the different materials all set up so all I do is assemble the part and stock to be machined.
If you need i have a pdf on how to make start parts. It is really simple to do and saves a ton of setup time.
Steve
Hi Steve
While I get to it a different way as I have created my on custom ribbon to get everything I use on one ribbon, but yes I am inserting a saved UDF work cell within in a template file, a file that has the basic profiles and sequences already set up.
and what I mean by work cell is
we have saved variares work cells for each machine and operations required
example of the okuma45 cells
we have created a number of cells for each machine based on what operation is called for. now I was trying to load a work cell that had special tooling used for a small number of our jobs, this is the practice that has been used here for the last ten years, my predercessor set it up.
no matter what we tried, it wouldn't load, now I opened a file where that work cell was last used, and saved it again in Creo 2, then going into the folder where it is stored and delete all the old versions. it would then load...
Something has changed, or something is missing which is preventing old cells from loading.
maybe this practice is not how PTC designed the software to be used, but its how we have done it and how our system has involved, I guess we should look at saving tools by parameter and importing them into the tool table, but we had been saving the entire work cell and reloading them as it updates all the tools at once.
Peter
