Creo Parametric Ideas

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. The organization where I work is in the manufacturing industry. In the organization I am responsible for the CAD and PDM system administration. I support about 300 Creo Parametric users. 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? We are currently working with Creo Parametric 7.0.8.0. 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. As the title of the idea reads, we would like to have a way to upload all objects in all workspaces in one go. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Before upgrading Windchill, it is well known that it is recommended to upload all relevant data, as the workspace cache may not be compatible with the newer Windchill version after the upgrade. The previous approach before upgrading is for users to go through workspace by workspace, check for relevant data, and then upload it if necessary. That's why many of our users have asked me for a way to upload all their data at once. The general use of the config.pro setting "dm_upload_objects automatic" is not an option for us: The users are strictly against an upload of the data at every save - they want to decide themselves which data will end up on the server and which not. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Since several dozen workspaces can accumulate between our Windchill upgrades, which take place about every 2 years, this usually costs users 1 to 2 working days of time before the upgrades. With a total of 300 users, this adds up to quite a bit of time. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Worldwide Multisite Medical Device industry. I'm co-owner of the formats and title block management. I'm called to connect internationally with the others cad managers to unify the entire company Drawing formats. 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Creo3 for Sustaining projects, Creo7 for new projects. 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Titles in drawing parts are coming from many and different departments, when it comes to the title block, when it needs a longer description, it exits from the cell available space even if quite large.   A Dynamic Font Height Size, dependent on the cell size, could solve it. If this solution is applied the font text is then reduced in a smaller size but it avoids to exit from title block and  manual edit to can be skipped. In the screenshot here above it's in 1 row and with a too small size (just for exemplification) but the solution should works also for multiple line cells. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Different departments in different worldwide sites  are using Creo (and other CADs) for different purposes (R&D, Manufacturing, tooling) with different approaches. This historically led some to use Title in the title blocks as a long description field. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Unification of title blocks for a company drawings same look and feel. Avoiding designers edit on title blocks, it could be a source for mistakes. Save time for "aesthetic" intervention on drawings. A "ready to print" whole company title block.     ... 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

Creo   has the capability to create "Standard" holes (internally threaded features).  Part of that functionality is to read information from the .hol file and transfer it to the Properties tab and (at least a subset of info) to the Note tab.  The note then can be displayed on a combination state.  This is very handy.   But the same functionality does not exist for cosmetic thread .  Make an extrude or revolve then apply a "Standard" cosmetic thread.  It reads the same .hol file and transfers it to the Properties tab, but there is no Note tab.  You're stuck having to make your own note.  Not very handy.   This is an enhancement request to be able to auto-generate notes for external cosmetic threads (externally threaded features).   1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. A&D industry , Role is cad/PLM manager  2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 8.0.20. 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. able to use thread notes for cosmetics 4. What is the use case for your organization? usage in Model based definitions, 2D drawings etc 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? save time , money errors  ... 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? 8.0.5.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Reference: Case - 16281213 SPR - 13617020   Drawings seem to have display issues when an offset lines goes through a part which interferes, or goes through a quilt (even hidden) that interferes. There are drastic differences how the offset line breaks in different situations (quilts hidden, shown, etc). Sometimes it breaks with very large gaps. There doesn't seem to be any rime or reason. If you extend the offset lines and make it bigger, the gap behavior also changes. For example: Please fix! 4. What is the use case for your organization? Our organization designs hundreds of products a year, all exploded Assembly drawings. Each of our products/drawings are unique and sometimes there might be hidden quilts. These hidden quilts are causing our engineers to be frustrated in managing the exploded lines.  5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? This would quicken the design time of our products, as we won't require engineering time to figure out how to work with Creo abnormalities/bugs that won't get fixed. In addition, it would build user confidence in the tool, which would help grow the tool in the organization. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Automotive OEM with 500+ CAD seats. I´m responsible for CAD methodics. Stakeholders: Mechanical design, mockup, data exchange with other departments / supplyers using 3rd party CAD systems as well. 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 7 & 8 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. This product idea is a response to PTC case C16442478 https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/case.jsp?n=16442478   We use shrinkwraps (SW) for simplifying engine and transmission assemblies. Additionally it is a way to go for know-how- protection, too. We found out, that there is a dependency of surface quality of the resulting shrinkwrap and the amount and complexity and even bounding box of the regarded assembly. Even SW- quality can be influenced by some user actions, from a certain complexity of data sets, SW get a very poor quality.   Please refer to case for some examples of surfaces before and after Shrinkwrap creation.   SW quality gets a lot worse, if... ....original assembly has more components, ....original assembly has more complex components, ....original assembly has a bigger bounding box,   Test data shown below was provided by PTC.     Result with same settings but bigger bounding box:   From a certain data size and complexity, for us, the result cannot be used für mockups in whole vehicles, as large surface sets are removed during SW creation. This leads to untrue distance measurements or even indicate free space where originally periferical parts are located but not shown. 4. What is the use case for your organization? It would be great to have a new control option to influence SW creation method. Perhaps the amount of total / kept surfaces could be controlled by user, while classic options (e.g. "Level") keep same values, Last step is importatnt to us, as we must apply same SW level throughout all of our data sets.   5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? ....Better SW quality would deliver higher resoulution of result and showing the true shape of  assemblies. ...More "closed" surface regions in result. ... Another key to control data size and resultion of SW ... We could keep our deafault SW settings and apply them to all of our data sets ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. I´m resposible for CAD-methodology at an OEM car manufacturer. We´ve more than 500 CAD users. 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? creo 7 & 8 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. The picture shows an example: The red arrow marks the inner geometry, that must not be part of the surface copy of the whole assembly. We utilize shrinkwrap functionality for surface copies of huge assemblies. Coworking with internal departments and external supplieres requires certain degrees of detailed information. In some cases, it is a must to hide inner contures/geometry. Only outer shell geometry shall be collected. Inner components have to be excluded from shrinkwrap. Additional auto hole-filling functionality is also necessary by option. Selection of bounding surfaces shall be quick. For all ways to create shrinkwrap, the result has to have at least same quality as original data. Solid original geometry shall result in fully closed shrinkwrap (closed quilts as well). Result should be similar to a single merged component, coming from an assembly, but no inner geometry.     Currently, "Copy geom" functionality is only applicable components. For assemblies: merge and filling holes manually is high effort. No chance in case of assemblies with several houndreds of parts.  4. What is the use case for your organization? Data exchange with partners and supplierers / further processes in company (simulation, mockup,...). Know-how protetction Outer surface copy of whole engine / gearbox assy as a single, lightweight part. No inner geometry shown. Closed volumes without loss of surfaces. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Huge reduction of manual data collection: faster and easier geometry creation. Huge reduction of manual data repair time Know-how-protection: No inner geometry and holes shown No loss of data (single outer components will be missed compared to manual collection) Reduction of data size: resuling geometry is less complex than made by current methods   ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Aerospace. CAD PLM Admin Thousands of engineers making drawings 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 6.0.4.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Currently Creo has this detail option: default_detail_view_name_style  letter—Assigns the next available Latin alphabet letter to the new detailed view  roman—Assigns the next available uppercase Roman numeral to the new detailed view Please add an additional option where certain letters would not be used. Creo would then skip that letter and then assign the next available Latin alphabet letter to the new detailed view. For example, for this new config option, letters I, O, Q, S, X, and Z would be assigned. These letters would be skipped for new detail view letters. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Adhere to ASME Y14.3 Orthographic and pictorial views, section 6.3 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Prevent errors and confusion in drawing creation and interpretation ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Military industry 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 6.0.6.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Sketcher works like this when having 2 circles and trying to create dimension: C+C: circle 1 center+circle 2 center = dimension from center to center = logic T+T: circle 1 tangent+circle 2 tangent = tangent dimension between circles = logic C+T: circle 1 center+circle 2 tangent = instead of center to tangent Creo creates dim from center to center = nonsense. Only one supported solution is to use centerline but it is silly workaround. Dim C+T not working even in Creo 9.   4. What is the use case for your organization? Confused Creo users 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Allowing to use Creo as intuitive SW ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. All industries that create, edit and use sheetmetal parts in Creo Parametric. 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Creo Parametric 7.0.8.0 up to 9.0.0.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video.   In Sheetmetal parts if dependent copy is selected in a new mirror feature, both partially and fully dependent options stay greyed out and are not clickable. Meanwhile in Modeling parts if dependent copy is selected in a new mirror feature, you can select either partially dependent or fully dependent.   Note: this bug has existed since 2014 and has never been fixed: CS166281 - Mirror feature option "Fully dependent with options to vary" is grayed out in Sheetmetal mode in Creo Parametric          Once a mirror feature is created in a Sheetmetal part and you edit the bend position type of the original feature (for example Flat 1 in the screenshot ) then the mirrored feature is not automatically updated:         This can lead to dangerous/costly mistakes if a designer is not paying attention and/or assumes the sheetmetal mirror feature automatically updates its children features!       On the other hand, you can also for example edit the height of the flat/flange feature that is created by the mirror feature (for example " Flat 1 (2)" in the screenshot below ) without receiving any warnings about breaking dependencies, while with a Modeling part you receive this warning after changing a parameter in the child feature of a mirror feature:       And lastly we noticed that if we go to the mirror feature after editing a feature that is created before the mirror feature, that the "Reapply mirror" does not appear in the mirror feature in the sheetmetal part. The same procedure in a Modeling part does give us this option in the mirror feature:   4. What is the use case for your organization? To improve the ease of use while creating and editing sheetmetal parts 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? More robust mirror functionality will save time and money ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. I'm the Creo responsible from IT for mechanical engineering departments in special machinery and trying to keep our Creo workplaces working efficiently and secure. 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Creo 4.0 / Upgrade to Creo 9.0 running. 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Creo integrates a Chromium browser component. Every user can browse the internet without specific restrictions with that Creo integrated browser component, There are regular security patches required for the browser component to fix security issues. The latest in 2022, see PTC CS366360 “Google Chrome browser's multiple CVEs - Impact on Creo Parametric family of products”. There are also undiscovered security issues right now. This leads to security issues on our client machines. 4. What is the use case for your organization?   Improve security on client machines running Creo Parametrics. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Security incidents might have a huge impact, differing on the single case. It's worth to spend a feature on PTC side here to prevent these issues on the customer side.   Suggestion how to solve   One possibility could be to use the Creo embedded framework API RequestHandler.OnBeforeBrowse Method to abort integrated Creo browser calls to all URLs that are not part of a whitelist that could be specified via a Creo option e.g. creo_embedded_browser_url_whitelist_path pointing to a plain text file that contains allowed URLs. See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/65699918 ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. All industries that use 3D assemblies and layers 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Creo Parametric 7.0.8.0 up to 9.0.0.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. If you have an assembly that contains different sub-assemblies that have one or more parts in common like this: Then at the main assembly level, Creo will look at part-level to decide what the layer status will be. If you have a saved layer status at sub-assembly level, then this will be ignored in the main assembly. It would be great if more layer status control could be achieved by being able to make a main assembly look at the layer status of its sub-assemblies instead of the layer status of all the individual parts.   More detailed description of issue: For example: if BLOCK01.PRT has a layer "CUSTOM_CURVES" set to shown, then in BLOCKS_MODDSG01.ASM Creo will bundle all the "CUSTOM_CURVES" layers of all the parts (with the same filename) and set the status to shown  based on the layer status of the parts.     But for example if BLOCK01.PRT has a lot of sketch geometry in the CUSTOM_CURVES layer and in the sub-assembly BLOCKS_02SUB.ASM you need to place the BLOCK01.PRT 50 times, then visually your 3D view will be cluttered with these sketch geometries. Naturally, you'll want to hide these sketches by setting the CUSTOM_CURVES to "Hide" and  s aving the Layer Status. Then, depending on if you have the "Propagate Status" or "Save status in sub models" option activated, Creo will either only display this layer status when you have the sub-assembly opened in a new window or Creo will also hide this layer for the same parts across the main assembly, i.e. other sub-assemblies with the same part will atuomatically also have this layer hidden (even if we don't to).   Finally when you go back to the main assembly, this recently saved layer status of the sub-assembly will be ignored by the main assembly and instead the main assembly will look at the layer status of each individual part.   Note: Hiding only the subassembly CUSTOM_CURVES layer in the sub-assembly has no use, since this layer is still shown on part-level: 4. What is the use case for your organization? Achieving visual clarity or a clear visual overview in complex assemblies by having more control over the layer statuses 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Greater control over visibility of layers in subassemblies, which would be very useful in complex assemblies ... View more

Surfaces of different type (let say cylindrical and fillet) should bond/contact together in ProMechanica model if distance between them is 0.0. Currently ProMechanica model can bond surfaces of same type. I have attached the presentation with one sample model explaining idea in detail. For more details please check the discussion in ticket-  C16059524. ... 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? 8.0.5.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Modelcheck has the ability to check for the usage of certain symbols. However, a 'balloon note' does not seem to be a symbol. Which means, if we want the user to have a specific smart balloon symbol, and they used a balloon note, it won't be flagged by modelcheck.  4. What is the use case for your organization? We now utilize a smart balloon process. However, with any good process, we require checks and balances. We want to make sure new hires and those not familiar with the process to be informed that there is an issue.  5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? This will prevent the user from spending time creating manual balloons, then having the drawing rejected and spending even more time doing it with the smart balloons. This could definitely impact a user's productivity and a project's schedule. @lwestbrook  ... 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? 8.0.5.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Creo already gives an indication to the user that their GD&T is not valid. This is done either by a red underline or by using GD&T Advisor. However, modelcheck should flag an error if there is a blatant non-compliance. For instance, modelcheck should flag this:   It would also be great for ModelCheck to have a separate check for any GD&T not created using the Advisor.  4. What is the use case for your organization? Like all organization's, employees come and go. Which means that we hire engineers with different skill levels of GD&T. As they learn, we want to make sure they don't design or release data that is blatantly wrong. Something so obvious, can be checked by an automated system, and does not need to be caught by a person later and spend time reworking. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? This would quicken the release/review process. This would ensure proper design intent on the drawings. This would ensure the parts are manufactured and inspected correctly.   Since Creo already does the check, it would just mean that modelcheck needs to read that data and report on it.   @lwestbrook  ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Our organization is active in the field of construction machinery, combustion engines, and hydraulic components. I work in the IT department of the company, and we have a CAD-CAM integration project. We want to use the Model Based Definition on Creo Parametric (drawingless). 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Currently, we use Creo Parametric 7.0.7.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. I noticed that when we use the function ''Merge/Inheritance'', we can activate the option ''Toggle Inheritance''.  This allows the functions of the base model to be inserted into the model tree of the final part (Ext Inheritance Cut). So associativity between the two models is possible, but only in one way (Parent to Child).The risk is that the inheriting part is modified and that the base model is not updated.   We don't want to give the possibility to create Varied Items in this case. The base model must remain the absolute reference.   In conclusion, we need the benefit of the Ext Inheritance Cut Out feature to show annotations but without the ability to create Varied Items. 4. What is the use case for your organization? We want to integrate MBD into our construction and manufacturing methodologies. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? CAD-CAM integration, manufacturing and design process improvement ... View more

I have been writing TOOLKIT applications for 20 years at Boeing. We have 46 TOOLKIT applications in production. We are currently using CreoParametric-7.0.4.0 and planning to go to 7.0.9.0 shortly.   When we display a ProUIList in our GUIs, I am able to provide widgets that provide match functionality. When we display a ProUITextarea, no such match functionality can be implemented since there are no APIs for positioning the cursor or for highlight text.   Such functionality is in the OOTB dialog that displays Messages in the CreoParametric UI. This request is for an API for placing the cursor at a specified location while automatically scrolling so that the location is visible. Another API for highlighting the text between two locations.   Below is a snapshot of the OOTB dialog showing the requested functionality.     ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Our organization is active in the field of construction machinery, combustion engines, and hydraulic components. I work in the IT department of the company, and we have a CAD-CAM integration project. We want to use the Model Based Definition on Creo Parametric (drawingless). 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Currently, we use Creo Parametric 7.0.7.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Depending on the screen resolution used, the position of annotations and symbols in ''Flat to screen'' format on the 3D model changes with Creo Parametric. In the attached images, we notice that depending on the screen resolutions used, the layout of the symbols and the ''Flat to screen'' annotations is totally disordered. Now the annotations ignore the screen aspect and the placements are in absolute coordinates.   Would it be possible to add an option to adapt the appearance of symbols and annotations to the screen resolution? 4. What is the use case for your organization? We want to integrate MBD into our construction and manufacturing methodologies. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? CAD-CAM integration, manufacturing and design process improvement ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Space MCAD Administrator Engineers 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? Creo Parametric 8.050 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Currently, the Notification Center in Creo shows which objects have messages, warnings, errors, but in order to see the actual notification, you must hover the mouse over the object for about 1 second.  For one object this is not too bad, though it is not intuitive.  Even clicking on the object does not reveal any information about the message.  However, in larger quantities, inspecting each object individually with a mouseover is frustrating, slow, and inefficient.   Add a table view with columns and view customization so the object and the message can both be seen, sorted, grouped, and filtered. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Viewing notifications 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Increased efficiency, accuracy of notifications, less time wasted. ... View more