Creo Parametric Ideas

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. Machine automation. Admin for Creo and Windchill. All Windchill users within our organization. 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 8.0.4.0 and Windchill 12.0.2.0   3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Due to the HUGE system/performance benefits of Inseparable Assemblies in a Windchill environment, we would like to have the ability to default to Inseparable Assemblies when importing STEP files. This would require 2 changes: Add Import as Inseparable assembly to STEP file import menu Add a config.pro setting to allow choosing Inseparable Assembly as the default. 4. What is the use case for your organization? We get STEP files of customer data that can contain 100's or 1000's of parts, and since we reference their data in our machine design we often want to check this data into Windchill. TWICE in the last month we had users check in assemblies with 5000+ new objects pausing our Windchill system for 15+ minutes for all users while the check in completes. These large assembly check ins are made 3x+ slower by using the 'Auto Associate upon Checkin' that creates WTParts. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Being able to protect our Windchill system by default rather than having to constantly train/remind users to remember to use available tools. Better performance for pretty much all things PDM: Significantly faster check in Less clutter in workspace Less objects to refresh in workspace Less publishing (1 file instead of 100's or 1000's) Users can always unembed files if they need to create separate files. When importing STEP assemblies, please also fix the extra assembly Creo creates and when possible don't append extra things to the end of the file names. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. CAD business owner for SOMFY group 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Currently CREO7 and CREO9.0.2.0 in April 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. ISO 1302 roughness symbol is native in CREO9 ... but ISO1302 is canceled and replace by ISO21920 4. What is the use case for your organization? Roughness symbol is used in drawing and 3D 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? The new symbol of ISO21920 precise if it's linear or surface roughness.and is going to replace old symbol (ISO1302)   à (ISO21920)  The new line is for linear roughness ; For surface roughness, il is a losange. We create the symbol in CREO7 ; The point is unwished ; there are some options below Ra1.6, but I don't found how insert a blank as option Could this roughness symbol be updated in CREO ?   ... View more

Hi,   Please add an option to include annotations (made in assemblies) in step AP242 export. Also add an option to exclude annotations from components in this assembly.   Thanks in regards ... View more

Idea Message ID:  8127   Now most customers are using multi-CPUs(processors) machines. But for creo current release, only support multi-CPUs(processors) for graphics area and mechanica mode. Buy expensive machine and expensive software, it is very waste for us. As I know, NX 8.0, solidworks 2012 and CATIA are support multi-CPUs(processors). ... View more

Hello, Many users are requesting the possibility of having a new feature for oblong holes. At the moment creating a simple hole is very easy and customizable. But creating an oblong hole require more time : 1 - creating a cutting extrude 2 - sketching the oblong shape, or importing it from sketcher palette...   But still longuer than having a dedicated "Oblong Hole" Feature Inside of Creo Parametric. Thanks in advance. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. What is your industry : watchmaking industry What is your role in your organization : mecanical engineer Describe your stakeholders : engineering, manufacturing and quality actors whitch have to consult drawings  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 creo the symbol of the state of edges relative to the standard iso13715 is not present   4. What is the use case for your organization? create a custom symbol 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? On our side we had to create the symbol because we use it in 100% of our components. On the other hand, our personalized symbol is not ideal and does not meet all the scenarios of the ISO standard. Finally I put myself in the shoes of a company that is starting with Creo and does not have this symbol and will spend a lot of time learning how to create robust custom symbols to ultimately create this symbol. A same idea (here) as already posted but not accepted due to lack of votes (auto archiving). So i restart it by this post. ... View more

Today there is no reasonable possibility to create solid geometry of cables or harness parts. PTC only refers to a workaround by using other data exchange formats: CS41458 - Thick Cables or Wires are not shown in Shrinkwrap format after exporting from Creo Parametric CS66555 - Export of thick cables does not work for for interfaces such like IGES, STEP, CATIA V4 (.model), ACIS, Parasolid, UG in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 But this workaround breaks the parametrization and thereby is not a preferred solution. PTC should provide a better possibility (parametric) to create solid geometry of cables/harness parts! ... View more

When working within large assemblies, sometimes there are several parts inside the assembly where the insert mode was not exited by the user. This leads to the assembly being shown incompletely without the user realizing.     To find those one can use the Model Tree Query for "Suppressed Items", where the greyed out ones are there because of Insert Mode (Creo 7)   Idea is to include this into the Notification Center as a configurable notification to be shown in the Model Tree, e. g. in the segment Regeneration notifications:     ... View more

Please vote if you want to have an option where Creo CAD objects could be easily displayed and manipulated in tabs like in web browsers, FoxIt, & WF4:     More Details: ProE could display Tabs for all open objects, very similar to what Firefox and all web browsers do (and FoxIt pdf viewer).  This way the user can see all objects open and click any one to activate.  You could put tabs above (like in IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc) or to the left/right.    Although a bit rough around the edges, ProE WF4 could do this yet Creo cannot.    Reference Poll for more information: http://communities.ptc.com/polls/1252   Related Discussion: http://communities.ptc.com/thread/39944 (if links do not work, manually copy/paste them to address bar) ... View more

Suggestion: if you select an edge of a part, it should be possible to show the length, radius, diameter... of it automatically in the status bar without starting the analyzing tool. Also the distance or angle of two selected edges, surfaces should be shown automatically in the status bar. In most cases this is sufficient enough. If you have to do more complex measurements you can start the analyzing tool.     ... View more

Hi,   in optic of MBD, it was useful to have the capabilities to create some table in 3D with Repeat Region (with the same capabilities of the 2D)         ... View more

New function in ModelCheck, delete all emty layer in the prt, asm and drw mode. ... View more

Right click on model in ASSEMBLY TREE and open drawing option from pull-down menu ... View more

Currently, there are no Toolkit functions for Repeat Regions on drawings, to sort, filter, fix indexes ... Even setting a Repeat Region in a drawing table is not possible (see CS157928).   Please provide some more Toolkit functions, to deal with Repeat Regions! ... View more

To increase the overall model quality, we would like to prevent incompletely regenerated models (traffic light status is yellow) from being checked in to Windchill. Therefore it would be very helpful if there were a ModelCHECK check (see also PTC article CS39546).   As of today, only the config.pro setting "regen_solid_before_save prompt" can be used to inform users about incompletely regenerated models when saving. However, since we also use the config.pro setting "dm_auto_conflict_resolution yes" to suppress annoying and superfluous conflict messages from Windchill, the setting "regen_solid_before_save prompt" does not work for us either, since this message is also suppressed. ... View more

The great Advantage of DEX is to save different configurations of models from same version in Windchill. Unfortunately it's not possible to open drawings in a DEX session. It would be a big advantage if drawings would be included in a DEX session. In general you need drawings for documentation of the different versions. In our case we use a drawing for configuration of the model. At least, I don't understand this limitation. ... View more

We restrict our skeleton models to surfaces only. no solid features.  I'd like a config option that prevents solid features from being created in a skeleton model. ... View more

Currently in Creo 4.0 circular refences are shown as existent in the Notification Center, but if you click on it, it is not shown in detail. Not in every case in the message log line is observed by the user and they are not really sure how and where to open the complete information given in the .crc file. There are so much actions to avoid additional clicks in a release update, but these clicks are very strange. Please implement the full .crc file content in the notification center and allow to jump to the real effected components not on the main assembly.     ... View more