Creo Parametric Ideas

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. We design and manufacture high-end electronics. I am the CAD Manager / PTC SME. Stakeholders for this idea include our Creo user community. 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 8.0.5.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Reference: Case - 16281213 SPR - 13617020   Drawings seem to have display issues when an offset lines goes through a part which interferes, or goes through a quilt (even hidden) that interferes. There are drastic differences how the offset line breaks in different situations (quilts hidden, shown, etc). Sometimes it breaks with very large gaps. There doesn't seem to be any rime or reason. If you extend the offset lines and make it bigger, the gap behavior also changes. For example: Please fix! 4. What is the use case for your organization? Our organization designs hundreds of products a year, all exploded Assembly drawings. Each of our products/drawings are unique and sometimes there might be hidden quilts. These hidden quilts are causing our engineers to be frustrated in managing the exploded lines.  5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? This would quicken the design time of our products, as we won't require engineering time to figure out how to work with Creo abnormalities/bugs that won't get fixed. In addition, it would build user confidence in the tool, which would help grow the tool in the organization. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. I´m resposible for CAD-methodology at an OEM car manufacturer. We´ve more than 500 CAD users. 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? creo 7 & 8 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. The picture shows an example: The red arrow marks the inner geometry, that must not be part of the surface copy of the whole assembly. We utilize shrinkwrap functionality for surface copies of huge assemblies. Coworking with internal departments and external supplieres requires certain degrees of detailed information. In some cases, it is a must to hide inner contures/geometry. Only outer shell geometry shall be collected. Inner components have to be excluded from shrinkwrap. Additional auto hole-filling functionality is also necessary by option. Selection of bounding surfaces shall be quick. For all ways to create shrinkwrap, the result has to have at least same quality as original data. Solid original geometry shall result in fully closed shrinkwrap (closed quilts as well). Result should be similar to a single merged component, coming from an assembly, but no inner geometry.     Currently, "Copy geom" functionality is only applicable components. For assemblies: merge and filling holes manually is high effort. No chance in case of assemblies with several houndreds of parts.  4. What is the use case for your organization? Data exchange with partners and supplierers / further processes in company (simulation, mockup,...). Know-how protetction Outer surface copy of whole engine / gearbox assy as a single, lightweight part. No inner geometry shown. Closed volumes without loss of surfaces. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Huge reduction of manual data collection: faster and easier geometry creation. Huge reduction of manual data repair time Know-how-protection: No inner geometry and holes shown No loss of data (single outer components will be missed compared to manual collection) Reduction of data size: resuling geometry is less complex than made by current methods   ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Military industry 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 6.0.6.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Sketcher works like this when having 2 circles and trying to create dimension: C+C: circle 1 center+circle 2 center = dimension from center to center = logic T+T: circle 1 tangent+circle 2 tangent = tangent dimension between circles = logic C+T: circle 1 center+circle 2 tangent = instead of center to tangent Creo creates dim from center to center = nonsense. Only one supported solution is to use centerline but it is silly workaround. Dim C+T not working even in Creo 9.   4. What is the use case for your organization? Confused Creo users 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Allowing to use Creo as intuitive SW ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Our organization is active in the field of construction machinery, combustion engines, and hydraulic components. I work in the IT department of the company, and we have a CAD-CAM integration project. We want to use the Model Based Definition on Creo Parametric (drawingless). 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Currently, we use Creo Parametric 7.0.7.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. I noticed that when we use the function ''Merge/Inheritance'', we can activate the option ''Toggle Inheritance''.  This allows the functions of the base model to be inserted into the model tree of the final part (Ext Inheritance Cut). So associativity between the two models is possible, but only in one way (Parent to Child).The risk is that the inheriting part is modified and that the base model is not updated.   We don't want to give the possibility to create Varied Items in this case. The base model must remain the absolute reference.   In conclusion, we need the benefit of the Ext Inheritance Cut Out feature to show annotations but without the ability to create Varied Items. 4. What is the use case for your organization? We want to integrate MBD into our construction and manufacturing methodologies. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? CAD-CAM integration, manufacturing and design process improvement ... View more

When importing a section from the palette, Creo sizes the imported section in relation to the bounding box. To avoid mistakes, it would be great to have settings that puts the scale default on "1", this way, some sections that are related to slotholes for certain bolts are shown correctly at once.   ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. We design and manufacture high-end electronics. I am the CAD Manager / PTC SME. Stakeholders for this idea include our Creo user community.  2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 8.0.5.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Reference: Case: 16087371 SPR: 13261009       In our PCB Board start-part, we have ecad areas for the annular rings around PCB mounting holes. These ecad keep outs are on the top and bottom of the PCB. We create an ecad area on one side, referencing the hole. Then we create the ecad area on the second side and reference the first ecad area. We group the 2 areas and reference pattern it to the PCB holes. This works great in the regular part mode. However, in the ECAD module (which is using the sheetmetal code), it doesn't work! According to PTC and R&D, ECAD areas that use projected curves cannot be reference patterned. This seems like a full-on bug to me. If it works fine in one module, yet it doesn't in the other, that can cause frustration and confusion with the user-base. Can we get this fixed? See attached for sample files.  4. What is the use case for your organization? Our organization designs hundreds of products a year, all with PCBs. We are trying to extend our usage to the ECAD module, but we keep on hitting bugs, like this one, that prevents us from using it the way we need. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? This would get us closer to use the ECAD module, which would bring benefit to our organization, whether through the IDX collaboration standard, or it's ECAD capabilities.   Thank you   @Alex_Y  ... View more

As shown in the printscreen below, dimensions locked by a relations don't inform the user about this is a consistent way.    1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Any industry, all engineers designing in creo 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 7.0.7.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Consistency of feedback about locked dimensions 4. What is the use case for your organization? see printscreen, no specific example, only needs a dimension locked by a relation 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? reduce design time by clear information about why certain dimensions won't change. ... View more

I've been evaluating Creo 9 for company wide installation after the summer. I noticed that when for example using Extrude, one can set it to create a new body. The name seems to be greyed out, meaning that the user has to make the body and then go in again and change the name. Suggestion is thus to allow the user to directly change the name of the new body during creation. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. I'm a professional product designer and use CAD every day.   2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? I'm using Creo 7. 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. I want to be able to fully utilize mice that have extra buttons, such as gaming mice with more than the usual 3 buttons.  This will reduce the amount of keyboard use for navigation to improve productivity.  To my knowledge there is currently no way of changing the navigation buttons from the default middle mouse button, shift and control keys for rotating, panning, and zooming.  Ideally each of these could be a single mouse button (or any controller input the user wants them to be) if it could be remapped in Creo.  4. What is the use case for your organization? Faster navigation without needing a keyboard.  Mouse-only or keyboard-less navigation. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Higher efficiency.  An additional benefit would be the ability to navigate CAD models when you are physically far away from the keyboard, but have a wireless mouse, allowing you to move the model from across the meeting room.  ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Auto Design Engineer Auto manufacturers  2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 7.0.3.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. https://www.ptc.com/en/blogs/cad/adding-images-to-engineering-drawings-made-easy The function of placing images in drawing with the built is image tool does not work out of the box as intended and the fix is a workaround with undesirable effects. I'll define work. Import image to DRW, save. The image should always stay visible in the DRW but it is not. File is only linked so the separate image file has to be in same dir(maybe, did not test) or in texture folder( texture_search_path) . Image is not a texture though. Send DRW to someone They open it and see a black box instead of an image,   Import image to DRW, check in to Windchill. again the image is lost because its a separate file.      The workaround for this is to set "SAVE_TEXTURE_WITH_MODEL YES" but, having that saves all textures to model as well saving the pictures to the DRW. PTC needs to decouple these. Usually you do not want to save all textures to models and bloat up model files. I tried toggling on SAVE_TEXTURE_WITH_MODEL saving pictures to DRW, works, check in ok, and prints well. I then toggled off the setting and checked out the drw again, moved the image , resized it. Then tested its printing/windchill PDF. Poof all gone. SAVE_TEXTURE_WITH_MODEL would have to be set to YES all the time to work. Not sure that is good with all the ramifications that could cause other issues. Which means back to OLE Object import/create new with Paintbrush(aka MSpaint) in session. OLE option offers no aspect ratio lock and not much for features in general.    Note default setting is " SAVE_TEXTURE_WITH_MODEL NO"   A new config option specific to the drawing image tool could make the image tool PTC is showing off in the linked video usable without side effects that are undesirable.   Suggestion: DRAWING_IMAGE_IMPORT_EMBED YES* YES* - Saves/Embeds images imported to the drawing into the drawing file NO - Does not save/embed images in drawings to the drawing file 4. What is the use case for your organization? Proper function of the tool in CREO as shown in the promo video. Used for images as shown in promo and for putting a supplier drawing picture/PDF inside a title block. The new image tool has desirable functions, namely aspect ratio lock. However, can not use the tool because " SAVE_TEXTURE_WITH_MODEL YES" is not something wanted for all models. Use of the older OLE to embed images is still the go to option but, that tool lacks aspect ratio lock, transparency, and more. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Productivity increase - easy use of the image tool that has been pushed to the front by default Training decrease - Do not have to explain to new and old users why the new image tool can not be used Problem/Error decrease - Do no have to spend time fixing DRWs saved to Windchill over years that are missing images.  Make the "MADE EASY" part of the promo video true. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Automotive. I am a key user/administrator, using Creo/ProE daily since 2004 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 7.0.3 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Chamfer/round feature could fail after a model modification because the referenced edges do not exist any more. Please add a new item in the RMB menu in reference list of round/chamfer feature. Something like "Remove all failed". This would remove all failed references. A user must currently scroll the list, find all the failed references and remove them one by one, which is realy uncomfortable in case of many items in the list. 4. What is the use case for your organization? N/A 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? time save ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Aerospace, CAD user, CAD users 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Creo 7 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. I haven't created a new UDF but I think this is a problem with new UDFs as well. When you use the paste special and the advanced reference configuration, you now have to select the body that you want the features to apply to. Most parts are only built with 1 body. If only one body exists in the part then the advanced reference configuration should just automatically select the only body that exists. The user can still have the ability to check the "create new body" checkbox if they want to create a new body. This is already the functionality UDFs created before Creo 7s release (which are still usable in Creo 7).   4. What is the use case for your organization? See above. If only one body exists it is nonsensical to ask which one to pick. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? It would save a click. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. We design and manufacture high-end electronics. I am the CAD Manager / PTC SME. Stakeholders for this idea include our Creo user community.  2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 8.0.4.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Reference: Article: CS368069 Case: C16139073 SPR: 13778030   ANY organization which uses Windchill and wants to start calculating mass properties via mass_property_calculate is going to have this problem. The issue itself isn't with the Windchill integration, but with the fact that Creo flags submodels of an assembly as modified when mass_property_calculate is set to Automatic, ONLY in specific scenarios. If we have an assembly pulled from Windchill and turn on mass_property_calculate AUTOMATIC, the assembly only gets modified - which is good! Anything submodels won't be flagged as modified. Great! EXCEPT!...   Any model that is brought into session AFTER the initial load. For instance: 1 - Some of us have a config to load in base models into session along with the model itself. Therefore, parts that use forms - the formed models will flag as modified! Parts that have merge features - the source model will be flagged as modified! (then flagging the downstream parts as modified). 2 - The generic of the object loaded in session will be flagged as modified, which will flag all instances as modified! 3 - If you make a simplified rep of the assembly, erase from session, and then bring them back - they will also be flagged as modified; even if they weren't before!   This is a administrative nightmare. The only solutions forward are to: 1 - Update 40+ years of legacy data to avoid the issue - not going to happen. 2 - Let conflict windows popup for all users and have them manage this issue in their workspaces until this is going to be fixed - Not going to happen. 3 - Give up on using the tool the way that it was intended and use a workaround (analysis feature in footer) - the only possible solution.   Please have this addressed, because there really is no way to use this functionality designed as-is for a company that has legacy data in Windchill. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Our organization wanted to start tracking mass properties in Windchill and we couldn't use the tool as it was intended due to this issue. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? This would allow us to get the necessary data from the cad to the downstream teams to allow for proper material analysis, procurement strategies, competitive sourcing, weight, etc. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. I am Kamlesh and I am a Mechanical Engineer working as a technical support engineer in GMMSPL for PTC Creo 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Creo 8.0.1.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video.   Dear Creo product manager and the team, I have been started the Creo Piping exploration and found following difficulties   Sub:-FITTING SHOULD NOT TAKE THE COLOR OF THE PIPING   When we start doing piping using the spec-driven functionalities, have noticed that after insertion of fitting, the fitting losses its color and gains the piping color.  The above behaviour is completely opposite of non spec-driven piping. So we want this behavior of Creo non spec  in spe-driven piping, so that we can identify and visualise the piping perfectly.   We have a lot of customer who works in the piping and if it is come then it will help the organization 4. What is the use case for your organization? Increase the productivity and visualization of the user 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Time-saving from adding the fitting color once again ... View more

Creo-MBD -- enhance/improve PMI functionality Requirement 1: Attach symbol instance to PMI/dimension via offset placement based on a stable link in Creo Solid Mode More generally: More generally: attachment of annotations to other annotations via offset placement should be possible in solid mode. If for example there is an PMI/annotation of type dimension in a part,then it should be possible to attach a symbol instance to this dimension via offset placement, so that this symbol is placed in the same placement plane as the dimension and with the same orientation. If the dimension is moved, then the symbol instance should also automatically be moved, so that the relative position is not changed. The relative position can be changed by moving the symbol instance. Requirement 2: Enable above functionality in Creo Toolkit After implementation of requirement 1 as described above, the existing Toolkit functions for creation of symbol instances should be extended, so that the creation with offset attachment is possible. In this case the placement plane for the symbol instance to be created should be the same as for the annotation, to which the symbol instance is to be attached. The explicit specification of the placement plane via function !ProDtlsyminstPlaneSet" should not be necessary. Requirement 3: Implement user based attributes for PMI Requirement 4: Enhancements of requirements 1,3 are maintained in exported neutral data file formats JT, STEP, means: - Relation between PMI and attached symbol is existing in exported formats - user based attributes are available in exported formats Relevant Use Cases: - Labeling of PMI´s/Annotations/Dimensions for characteristics/QS post processes - Enrich data set of PMI´s/Annotations/Dimensions for MBD post processes More detailed information see also attachment ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Power systems, Product design engineer, power network operators 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 6.0.6.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Making a sheetmetal part. Create a flat from the base Planar feature. Mirror that flat to create a U-channel. Need to make a small adjustment to the original flat to increase relief, change bend position, etc. Mirrored part CANNOT UPDATE. Forced to delete mirror feature, and recreate tens of features because subsequent features were reliant on now deleted geometry.  What a terrible software experience considering the cost of Creo, and how widely used it is. This is basic functionality, but you can't even handle updating a geometry feature. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Reducing suffering experienced while doing my job. Helping PTC accelerate their product innovation. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Making people less frustrated with your software. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Construction, lead engineer and administrator of Windchill and Creo 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 7.0.5.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. In the workspace you have different icons for a generic, instance and normal part or assembly. In the feature tree there is no different icon for instances or generic. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Easier to see when you have an instance open or a generic. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? More harmonized and for the user faster to see if there is a generic or instance open. ... View more

At the moment, when the modeltree is undocked, you can set the modeltree width as a percentage.   This option is not available when the modeltree is docked. The information at Case Details: 16262632 was incorrect, as it stated that the modeltree width would be set, it's not the entire modeltree, but only the column modeltree.   As such, the product idea, request,  is to be able to set the model tree width as a percentage when it's NOT floating /docked.   2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 7.0.7>>8.0.3 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? It's a small change, but this would save frustration when changing model tree columns and not having to change the width each time. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Energy. Product Designer. Large companies with large orders. 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 8.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. When opening the measure tool in a large assembly the performance drops significantly, and panning/rotating the model is painfully slow. As identified in  CS307695. The best PTC has to offer on this bug is telling its customers to deal with it, as this has been marked as 'no plans to fix'. A workaround is not a fix. Changing the selection filter works, but takes time to open and find the desired filter. If you refuse to address the poor performance, at least let us set a default filter to use when opening the measure tool. If users need to change it from their set default, it is no slower than the way we all have to workaround this bug anyway, and if you require the filter that is selected as default then you save time on every measure command. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Increased productivity 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Lots and lots of value, come on let's get a proper fix in place PTC. ... View more