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DeanLong1-Visitor
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January 23, 2014
Question

Creo 2 Draft analysis

  • January 23, 2014
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Okay...I know this is the CAD forum...not the rant section....but I cannot hold it back any longer. The new draft analysis is truly horrible. Slow, cumbersome, un-imformative and a PAIN to use.


PTC,


I know I can "save" an analysis....but I simply don't want it required of me to do that to have functionality that used to exist and worked fine previously.


end rant.

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    scooke1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 24, 2014
    PTC,



    I endorse everything Dean says. The draft check tool is one of the most
    important in a plastic part designers toolbox. Going back where it was
    would be an improvement, but listen to what Dean has suggested as it all
    makes good sense for those of us who use this tool regularly.



    Steve Cooke








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    nrollins1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 24, 2014
    Thanks Steve - I will also jump on that list of supporters - I guess the
    more voices that are heard, the more likely PTC will listen. Thanks for
    voicing the concerns Dean, I agree with your assessment. We need two colors
    - and edges.


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    BarrySchaeffer1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 24, 2014
    Dean,

    I must agree with Dean's rant about Draft Check. One of the most important features of DC is the ability to visualize the parting line. This is much more difficult without 2 color display.

    Barry Schaeffer
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    dgschaefer21-Topaz II
    21-Topaz II
    January 24, 2014
    I agree in spirit, but I'd add a third color for insufficient draft.

    If you're checking for X degrees of draft, everything greater than +X should be one color, everything less than -X another and everything in between a third. That makes things very clear.

    Give users an option to make a rainbow if they want, but the default ought to be 3 colors.

    BTW - On the edge display, you may want to log in to the PTC community and vote up this idea:

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    rliberty3-Newcomer
    3-Newcomer
    January 25, 2014

    Similarly, I’ve long created skeleton models in an assembly
    where I create a master surface with parting surfaces (non-planer parting).
    These parting surfaces were used in creating the component parts that make up
    the assembly. Creo 2, even with “Mold Design” does not allow the creation of a silhouette
    curve, so important in creating these parting surfaces, in a skeleton model.
    They claim the creation of surfaces with silhouette curves in a skeleton model
    is not best practices without explaining why.


    Really!?


    Ross H. Liberty


    President, Factory Pipe

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