Unlimited quantity of windows/parts/drawings open, not just 15.

[Dale_Rosema]

I am using WF5/Creo. The number of files/drawings to be opened at one time is 15. Is there a reason that you can't have more than this?

Thanks,

Also, when editing a weld symbol - it treats the window as a 16th window. I recieved an error message that I had to many windows open. Try closing a few. I had 15 windows of files open and when I closed one, I was able to edit the weld symbol.

Make the weld symbol editing box not the same type of feature/structure so that you if you have the drawing open currently, you would not get an error and the window would open normally for editing.

April 11, 2013: Beside the window for welding, I just found that if I wanted to add a symbol, that window counts for one of you 15 windows too. I wasn't paying attention to the text line and clicked on the symbol icon, and it wasn't doing anything but silently screaming at me that I have to many windows already open.

Sept 11, 2013: Wanting to add a symbol with 15 windows open bit me again - couldn't figure out why the window wouldn't pop up. See http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/1662

May 8, 2014: Adding an annotation that require a pop-up window is considered the 16th window also. Stop what you're doing, figure out what window you can close out, go back to adding the annotation that you need

[DHLewis]

Having that many windows open just eats up so much RAM that it isn't efficient to work that way.  I can't see this as being good practice if it were implemented.

[LawrenceS]

DHLewis,  Inefficancy of having that many windows open at one time depends on the size of your models compaired to your computer/graphics card and what you are doing while they are open.  So it may be inefficient for you but much more efficient for someone else with different models and a different setup.

Personally, I don't see much of a need to work on that many at one time because I have trouble keeping them straight, but I routinely open that many in order to print them.  If I have an ECN with 35 dwgs and I want to print them to pdf (or hard copy) for mfg purposes, I like being able to tell PDMLink to open them all, and then do another task while ProE/Creo is processing to open all those dwgs.  Once it is done I can come back and start creating pdfs of them one by one.  This is much more efficient than opening, waiting, creating pdf, waiting, closing, opening, waiting, etc.

[unickque]

When I read the topic I thought the poster actually wanted to limit the max no of windows open. But after reading the idea it turns out the limit should be expanded or removed.

I would suggest to change the idea title so that it is clear what you want to achieve.

[Dale_Rosema]

It is now up to 18 or 20, but why a limit. (Creo 4.0)

[BenLoosli]

I guess it is easier to set a fixed limit that is reasonably high than let the program calculate when it is out of resources and then trigger the limit.

I know if you have a gaming graphics card, the limit is lower than 15. I used to hit it with 6-8 files open because the system could not handle more.

So the system is still doing its resource checking, but when it gets used a lot, they just cap it as the resources get used anyway.

Try running task manager with memory usage displayed when you open files and watch the available memory shrink.

[Dale_Rosema]

We don't have Windchill so sometimes it is simple things like have to rename a model (family table) and you have to have all the drawing open when you do this or you loose the association between the model and the drawings. 

[StephenW]

"Open" in memory but not necessarily "open" in a current window.

I do understand though, it's much easier to track your save progress when doing the rename to have everything open and then save and close as you go.

[BenLoosli]

After my first post, I did a test with my system.

Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit

Intel Core i7-4790 @ 3.60GHz

8GB RAM

Intel HD Graphics 4600

Creo 4 m080

I was able to open 18 drawings before no more would open. No warning message or anything, just the 19th file did not open.

Some of these drawings contained 30-50 components in the assemblies and some only 3 components. A few were piece part drawings.

[ToddKraft]

The core Creo functionality limit currently is 18 windows. 

We will continue to monitor this request.  We do recognize the instances where this is a limitation. 

If we get further requests we will elevate the priority of increasing this inside of Creo.

Regards,

Todd Kraft

Creo Product Manager

[Dale_Rosema]

Just got burned by this again when the "paste" window is you 19th window and won't open to let you past a series of notes. Got to get better at reading the script at the bottom letting know that I have too many windows open....