Creo Parametric Ideas

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

Bounding Box as a Feature Please make a feature in Creo Parametric representing the smallest area or volume in which a design can fit, bounding box. Please spend a few minutes looking at this video from SolidWorks, it is very simple and easy to understand. Bunding Box   Chees Erik Sallingboe ... View more

31 characters are not enough for design. This limit sometimes is driving customer crazy. For CATIA the limit of file name is 81 characters. ... View more

Please remove the 80 Character barrier/limit in STRING Parameters.  If a String Parameter is allowed to be entered in PDMLink then it should be able to be as long as required.  Also Word Wrapping in Tables allows for longer text to be effectively entered but now the limiting factor is the 80 characters that is a max in Parameters. ... View more

Hello everyone, If you like below thing that should be available in Creo Part modelling multibody   THERE SHOULD BE A WAY TO CREATE MULTIPLE SHEETMETAL BODY IN SAME PART Your reply is very valuable for me ... View more

Hello,   it will be interesting and usefull to have the possibility in the 3D MBD , to attach a symbol on an 3D annotation (dimension or Gtol). Actually it's possible only on the drawing.       ... View more

When offsetting or thickening surfaces by a value greater than the minimum radius of the surface, the feature just fails. It should display a warning and absorb the intersecting surface creating a sharp edge where the radius drops below zero. The automatic offset is a poor solution. For example, the simple revolve of a spline shown below and attached (Creo 2) fails if the thickness is increased so the radius drops below zero. A thicken or offset feature that constantly fails when the parent surface is modified is extremely frustrating and significantly diminishes the value of many of the surfacing enhancements and features such as freestyle. Catia has been able to do this for years and even Autodesk Inventor can do it. It might be a good idea to have equal wall thicknesses for many manufacturing processes, but surely that is up to the user? - They might add a round at the sharp edge to give a reasonably constant wall thickness, or perhaps add a boss feature or cutout where the problem is. With 3D printing capabilities meaning the thickness is less critical, this becomes even more of a software shortcoming. ... View more

It would be very helpful if model annotations could be related to one another, similar to how drawing annotations can be related. Currently, it is cumbersome to move annotations (such as a flag note symbol and a dimension) to be on identical planes in 3D space, and impossible to relate them so that they move together when dragged to a new location.    Alternatively, allow symbols to be added to annotations in the ribbon with intelligent above/right/left/below placement fields, like how text can be added to geometric tolerances with the Additional Text ribbon command.     ... View more

When saving a step file, if you type in the new name first (image 1), then select step file (image 2), the file name switches back model_name (image 3). Then you have to go back and select the file (image 4) and retype the name you want the step file to be named in the first place (image 5). Please correct so that the file name you type in for new name stays the same if you type it in and then change file types.       ***Added 12-JUL-2013*** This same is also true when you are creating pdf files, too. Thanks, Dale ***Added 18-MAR-2014*** Also true for creating .stl files. Thanks, Dale ... View more

Managing crosshatch, repeat region and create new xsection in drawing without Old Style Menu. Please upgrade these user interfaces to something that belongs to this era! ... View more

Currently, many actions done in DRAWING mode cannot be undone. DRAWING mode should have full UNDO & REDO capability for all operations! ... View more

In t he latest Creo 3.0, there are still a lots of commands/menus in Menu Manager, for example, Define Symbol, Repeat Region, Component Display, Table Line Display, Drawing Models and etc. Please make sure No more use Menu Manager in Drawing mode in Creo 4.0 ... View more

​​​​​Cabling Location points are hard to see (See Location Points.png). The Edit Definition look of location points were updated with Creo 7 and that looks really good (See Creo 7 Location Points.png). This request is to extend the location point visibility function to make the default points more visible as well and make this the same for all location points.  Possibly make edit vs the default points highlight in a different manner for distinction. ... View more

you can turn off almost all the cabling features in the model tree except terminators.  somehow that was missed.  Add it in the Cable tab.  Easy peasy right?           ... View more

Improvements to the Multibody boolean operations include the ability to Trim a Body by another Body, Trim a  Body by a Plane. Currently the only way to Trim by a Plane is using the Split Body by object command, but it currently (Creo 7) creates an extra body that we have to delete afterwards. It's faster from a modeling point of view to have the option for the extra body not to be created, and also faster from a regeneration point of view, in case of complex geometry. The Trim Body by another body is also a very needed feature, its similar to Creo Trim to Geometry in Cavity Manufacturing module or regular Union Trim in Catia.   Example operation of Union Trim in Catia:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkl3_aRKL6U             ... View more

Would like to have a config.pro setting to update Feature_Name to cabling REF_DES. Feature_name "CAD assembly" is required to update Windchill/MPMLink wtParts reference designation OOTB. Logical data updates cabling designations, these have to be manually maintained to update Feature_Name. Would like cabling REF_DES to update Feature_Name and match designation. ... View more

We are running an application created i JLink roughly 150000 times a year (increasing at 15-20 % a year). To get the correct output we need to change the recipe when saving to CreoView format in different part of the application. This feature exist in Creo 3 as well as in interactive mode. To keep the performance in line with the workload we would like to have this feature in Creo 6 and on wards.  ... View more