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

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

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: CS366849 Case: C16336356 SPR: 13742708   In a typical parametric assembly, if a component is placed using a surface or datum, and then the component's surface or datum is changed, it will automatically update the placement. Apparently this is not true for some use-cases regarding import of EMN/EMP data (from the IDF standard of ECAD MCAD Collaboration). This makes the functionality not parametric in a parametric tool. And there is not even a notification to the user. Even an advanced user would not think that the component should have been adjusted or something is not right. The shocking response by R&D is:   An ECAD assembly is a special assembly that contains many parts and is more complex, especially with many hole features. Editing features such as ECAD holes affect the performance of the software, so in order to avoid the performance problems, the automatic update results in the ECAD assembly are intentionally shielded   Please have at LEAST some notification that the user needs to manually update the placement. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Our business makes hundreds of products a year with PCBs. We have strict mcad libraries and collaborate using the IDF (and sometimes IDX) standards. We would like to avoid these 'surprises', when one use case out of thousands behave differently and now there are issues because of inconsistencies in the tool. If there is a good reason to not have it update, the new notification center needs to notify the user. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? It would allow us to use the modules and capabilities (ECAD MCAD Collaboration) for us to efficiently and quickly design our products. Otherwise, issues could occur and be found in production, causing a down line, and a complete redesign. If an assembly is not fully regenerated or changes still need to be reviewed, it should not be released.   @Alex_Y  ... 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

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

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

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Engineering Services Owner / Engineer Clients and suppliers 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 7.0.6 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. I would like to be able to directly insert parameters and dimensions into notes, similar to how easily they can be inserted into relations.   While in relations you can click on features/parts and dimensions for that feature show.  When you click on them, they go directly into relations.  Relations also has the parameter search feature.  Notes has nothing like this.  I have to manually go and find the feature and or part that has the information I need.  Then I have to find the feature/part ID to type in.  This is very time consuming and many times is done incorrectly because the IDs are so long.  Usually I have to go to relations, click on the features/parts to get what I want, cut it from relations and paste it into a note, but this doesn't work all the time.  Why can't there be a direct insertion into a note? 4. What is the use case for your organization? reduce time to create notes and errors when creating 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? simplify all note making, reduce errors ... View more

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes we need blank the border lines of table, but for current functionality Line Display only can blank the internal lines of table, cannot blank the exterior border lines ... View more

In Creo Simulate you can display the World Coordinate System (WCS) in the lower right corner by using the config.pro option sim_display_current_csys_triad=YES   This helpful information must be available in ALL modules of Creo Parametric !!!!   Vote for it !!! 😉 BR - Urs Simmler ... 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

A highly customized Config.pro file can be confusing to manage and can become cluttered with duplicate entries - for both mapkeys and options.   An option to specify a separate mapkey file would make managing these files much easier. This is even more important since the ability to have multiple sessions has been added.  This would enable using different config.pro files for different sessions and easily use the same mapkeys. Regardless of the many possible post-installation work-arounds, this out-of-box solution would save a lot of (especially first time) users a lot of headaches. ... View more