Creo Parametric Ideas

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Automotive industry  2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Creo 7.0.5.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. In drawing, views are placed. After drawing creation, I have created the simp rep in part model.  I need to change the views as per simp rep. I can't change the representation in the drawing views.  Possible to change the representation when i create the new views. but it's not possible to change for existing views. Why? 4. What is the use case for your organization? 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization?       ... View more

Following the multibody ability, and the fact that a description can be added to a material created (To a maximum 80 characters I believe) it makes sense that you could call up this information for drawings and notes. This is particularly important when creating large assembly drawings where multiple labels/notes are needed to illustrate materials and parts within an in assembly drawing.    This would dramatically reduce the time it takes to label up materials, and allows for single point changes to the .mtl file to update all associated drawings. It also removes the risk of miss labelling information.   An example might be something along the lines of:   "&PTC_ASSIGNED_MATERIAL:att_body" - So if the item changes to a different material - Say 304 SS to 316 SS, or even Mild Steel Galv, the material description could be updated in the note.    The note  allows for more information than simply the material type. It could say:   "Mild Steel hot dip galvanized, degreased and fettled back to remove any imperfections."   or   "Mild steel, galvanized. Please refer to engineers calcs. for strength and finish spec."   This would make labelling/noting drawings a 2 click process with the appropriate UDF being set up. This would be a huge time saver for if you have a list of your own materials that you use within the modelling process. It also ensures that any update to the 'master model' percolates through to the notes/labels. ... View more

For example, add a lots of render templates for users to select, just like Solidworks. or provide a simple render process guide template, just like Mechanica, user can add actions step by step. ... View more

selection filter does not expand to be able to select specific feature required. e.g. edge/surface etc. to attach note leader. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Mold Design/Build 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Creo 4.0 however can not do in Creo 8.0 either. 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Create axis using existing coordinate system. Should be able to define which axis of coordinate system to use X, Y or Z 4. What is the use case for your organization? Simplification, Less features required. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Time savings. ... View more

There currently is no function for identifying annotations without defined references.  The 'Annotation Status' column in the model tree informs you when annotations are: Excluded, Missing References (defined, existing references), Failed, or Unconverted. This feature does not inform you of annotations that have no defined references at all. ... View more

PTC, please provide a WYSIWYG editor for easier creation of Resource files for GUIs! Using a text editor isn't really modern. ... View more

Well, according to this document, the ability to control the visibility of annotations by layer was removed in Creo 1.0, Parametric.  It is now recommend to use "Combined View States" instead. This is fine if you're doing model based definitions, but it's a cumbersome substitute if you just need to see a note on screen occasionally. We need a simple, on demand method of controlling the display of annotations in the 3D model.  Layers worked well for this, that functionality should be restored. ... View more

Text boxes have been painful since the inception.  Why not make them work like modern text boxes of, oh lets say, the last two decades.  The text box on this website is better. Formating is difficult in drawings.   What You See in the input box, is Not What You Get on the face of the drawing.  One has to click in the drawingn area to see if it came out right.  Making bold or different font size requires ASCII programing, (sure easy enough) which turns into just another thing you have to learn to use proe/creo. AND TEXT WRAPPING!  Set the size of the text area and have it text wrap.  Make symbols easier to input to text box.   This is one of those areas that has been left behind but is used all the time.  People who are new (and old) to the software go "wow this is like form 1980's".  No wonder it takes so long to learn proe (creo, whatever).  It doesn't appear to have any improvement in Creo 2.0 which is amazing. ... View more

We have moved to CREO 3 from Wildfire 4.0 for 3 weeks now. I am getting multiple complaints on how cumbersome it has become working with the drawing functions. One particular anoying "enhancement" is the disapearence of the Note Properties Dialog box for simple notes. When we try modifying text in CREO 3, the cursor is difficult to see, sometimes does not appear or you do not see where it is located. ... View more

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Since Creo 2.0, the way to move horizontally a dimension and a note is different - for the dimension, SHIFT button need to be used - for the note,  dragger need to be used           This is very disturbing for the user. The note and dimension should be moved in the same way   The best solution should be to have the possibility to use either the SHIFT button or either the dragger for note and dimension ... View more

Cross-hatching should maintain a fixed orientation on 3D objects. Actually, when turning the 3D, the hatching stays fix to the environment and loses the original orientation on the object. ... View more

Return Creo to regular, annual, product version releases.   As I recall, this was the promise delivered when Creo was announced.  Wildfire, it was said, had too long between releases, Creo would restore stability and would see annual releases each spring.  That was true for Creo 1 & 2, but Creo 3 is already late and not scheduled for release for another year.   It has been said that customers would rather see a release delayed to insure quality rather than pushed out to meet a schedule, I'd say customers deserve both.  If a new feature is not up to the quality standards that the customers expect, push it to the next release and ship the remainder on time.  As it is, rather than getting some of the new features that may be ready, we get nothing for months.   A new customer or a 12 month maintenance renewal ought to be able to know that they will receive the next version before their maintenance expires.  As of Creo 2, customers are paying 2+ years of maintenance and getting no new software. ... View more

Why don't create a fantastic material library like other CAD software with more than 20 defaut material. Today each customer create or recreate there own material in mtl... but I'm sure that most of the standard materials could be create with an Hatch include and a realist color associate. SW do that perfectly by default so why not PTC... These material library could be install and activate or not like PTC have done with a Graphic library few years ago. I'm sure it could be possible to get some PTC direct customer's material library ....graphics library .... Hatch Library ...Mapkeys..  then merge it in a beautiful User Interface Windows.... That will be my dream and for a lot of customers. A way to have global edition of all material values ...Density... Young modulus .... like Excel should be perfect. We have devellop a spreedsheet who do the job perfectly in my company. Another idea is a way to sort by physical and structural caracteristics in the Material Attribution Windows. It could be usefull for designers of FEM analysts A Hatch modification in all XSection by changing a material or modify the Hatch pitch  ideally should change in all views in the Drawing. That's All ... View more

I'm asking for this functionality after having to re-do the entire drawing from scratch. Here's the scenario: You get to work on an existing drawing that contains fully-dimensioned views.  The views display the Master representation of a part. You want to copy this drawing and use it as a template for a drawing of a simplified variant of this part.  Simple, right?  Just add a simplified rep to the model, make a copy of the drawing, open it and swap out the Master rep for the new simplified rep of the model...  Erase or add the few dimensions that make up the the difference between the representations... Well, as if Creo 2.0 M100, you can't do this without erasing the views using the Master rep and starting from the drawing from scratch with the representation set to the new simplified rep.  Perhaps PTC wants us to use family tables for this situation, but why then allow simplified reps other than the Master on part drawings? Apparently, this has been asked for before:  http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/1719) (broken link?) Allow to set individual simplified reps for parent and child views in Creo Parametric Thanks! ... View more

If I'm working in widget.prt (or thingy.asm) and I create a new drawing, the name of the drawing should default to widget.drw (or thingy.drw), instead of drw0001.drw. This would save a lot of people a little bit of time several times a day, for little programming effort. ... View more

For most materials, the vector-based Creo crosshatching is fine. When the occasion comes to section concrete, or other materials that have non-linear hatches, there is no way to show the appropriate cross-hatch pattern on the drawing. Having some pre-defined non-linear hatches, or the ability to define your own non-linear hatch (simiar to symbol editor) would be helpful. The current hatch editor can create custom hatches, but only linear ones... ... View more

We want  to show in a drawing a dimension of a specific feature selected from Model Tree in a specific view (it was possible in Wildfire4) ... View more