Creo Parametric Ideas

Current Situation 1. First step after adding a new bore design feature to a part is to define the position of it. 2.a) In the next step you can define the diameter of the in this case not threaded bore and add a chamfer to it. If this sequence is fulfilled the chamfer diameter is chosen automatically to a useful diameter. For example in case of adding a chamfer to a 10 mm diameter blind hole, Creo predefines this chamfer diameter to 12 mm. This works only if the hole has no thread.   2.b) Contrary to this procedure Creo is choosing a completely wrong chamfer diameter if the bore is threaded. For example if you want to create a M5x0.8 thread and then klick on the chamfer button the predefined diameter is 11.20 mm, which is by far too big.   Could-be situation Maybe there could be implemented the same functionality for threaded holes as it is well done for non threaded ones. This would save time, especially when there are a lot of different threaded hole diameters in one part, because it would not be necessary to change the chamfer diameter permanently.   PLEASE VOTE FOR MY IDEA ;) ... View more

With tool design for designing a mold, there's a limited undo functionality in the sub-tab "parting surface", if a sketch is made, there is also no way to delete it until the command is canceled, which can result in a loss of effort (the good sketches are lost as well if you cancel the parting surface command).   I'd like to see the general functionality inside the parting surface command working just like the rest of creo , adding sketches and deleting them should be no problem. ... View more

To open a Mold asm only in ASM mode (without using a Mold License) is only possible with a special config.pro option (allow_asm_in_assem_mode). If this option is set to yes, a new method to open files appears in the file open dialog (Open in Assembly mode).     It would be easier without an extra menue entry in the dialog if creo recognises that there is no Mold License and automatically opens the asm in asm mode instead showing an error only. ... View more

I think that PTC should consider adding a config option to fix an issue that bothers most current CREO users. Out of the box, when making components transparent, the edges wind up faded (grayed out). It is not a pleasant thing, especially when dealing with multiple components in an assembly, and many of those components are transparent....image is muddy, and generally unclear. I believe that PTC should either make the default mode to be black edges only (when that option is chosen from the view type icons) - or- At least have a config option that allows black edges to be the default mode, while making surfs transparent. https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/case.jsp?n=12600723 The work-around that is shown below is just too cumbersome, and fairly silly. My neighbor, who uses U.G. gets a good laugh at how ugly Creo's approach to transparent edges are. Nice crisp black lines is what the engineering community wants....... It will be very much appreciated by all once this fix is introduced, (despite what your marketing groups or focus groups happen to say.) thanks in advance, Evan Steinman Senior Design Engineer NATIONAL MOLDING 954 364 7751 EVANS@NATMO.COM ... View more

We create a layer HIDDEN_DIMS to put dimensions on that we don't want displayed in the drawing. A rule is used to put dimensions with zero value on this layer. There currently is no way to identify if a dimension is a baseline dim or not. We do not want baseline dimensions on this layer because they do need to be displayed. We hide this layer in the drawing. Currently must manually exclude each baseline dimension from this layer. We use re-use our models for different molds over & over. Relations help us make reuse of the models so from one mold to the next I don't know if a dimension should be displayed on the drawing or not. That's where the rules come into play. A more expanded rule set can help us reduce the work required for drawing cleanup. Please help users use the software more productively. ... View more

the need to simulate the deformation of the product when it is printed, like simulate but calculating on the basis of shrinkage and temperatures of the mould. model deformed.   ... View more