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How to access PTC Licensing Tool How to retrieve license file How to generate license file How to use Sales Order Number to retrieve license file
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Covers creation of repeat region relations to control quantity for bulk items in an assembly BOM table.      
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Covers point patterns of standard holes and the use of Alternate Origin as a best practice to correctly generate the pattern.  
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How to apply a torsional moment load, or torque, to a model using solid elements.  
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Explanation of this warning and overview of 2 troubleshooting methods to resolve it.        
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Workflow for creating a 2D repeat region to display family table information.  Covers an alternate method using simple repeat regions to allow the use of relations and filters.  Discusses creation of filters in alternate method, and some related drawing setup options are also covered in addition to column sorting to match the family table display order.    
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Using PTC Creo Parametric sketch-based features, you can quickly draw and edit geometry. While creating a new sketch-based feature, you can either select a sketch or a sketch plane first, and then open the tool (click Model > Extrude), or you can open the tool and then select a
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Workflow for creating an assembly process animation video using an explode state in Creo Parametric  
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Demonstration of using the Align command to connect a Freestyle control mesh to existing Creo geometry and the warnings that may appear during the process.    
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  Hi everone,  attached please find a PDF document describing the interoperability extensions between Creo Elements/Direct Modeling and Creo as part of the Creo 4.0 Sneak Peek.  Looking forward to your feedback  Best regards   Berthold 
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You can now make it easier to page through various combination states by creating hyperlinks on notes. In other words, you can create a note annotation for your model that contains a hyperlink to a combination state. Clicking the hyperlink sets the drawing view to the certain state.In
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Workflow of loading metrics data onto ThingWorx
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PTC now allows users to import and export standard Wavefront (*.obj) files in Freestyle.  The OBJ file could be created from other subdivisional modeler tools and imported geometry can contain multiple shapes.  Freestyle will provide additional control on import such as the facet units the ability to flip the normal direction of the control mesh.
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PTC has improved Freestyle to allow users to split quad faces into n-sided faces. Click the command Add Edge to increase the number of edges per face. Each edge breaks the 4–sided face into smaller faces, providing better control to define the form. You can delete selected edges, which results in the automatic collapse of the faces and the deleted edge vertices. This gives you the flexibility to split the control mesh into any defined shape so you can create any type of geometry.
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PTC has improved how Style deals with closed curves.  Users can now create closed curves as periodic or nonperiodic curves.  A new option is available to toggle between the different states of the closed curve, however, all newly created closed curves are defined as periodic by default. 
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PTC has improved the Drop Curve feature in Style to allow the new direction option of Normal to Surface and then selecting the surface on which to drop the curve. You can also drop a curve onto a datum plane, in a similar way to the Project feature. The dropped curve on the datum
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By adding the new options into the config.sup you can lock the  chosen severity level.The below image shows the result of adding the following two items to the config.sup:nmgr_failed warningnmgr_reference_changed error
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One more example of what you can do with Motors now being feature. The attached video shows how to simply reroute the selected Motor to another Rotation Axis by clicking Edit References in the Mini Toolbar from either the Model Tree or the graphics area.  
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With Mechanism Motors now being features, you can also define relations, create UDFs, reroute them etc. Attached video shows an example of adding a relation to one of the Motor's coefficients. Note that the result of this relation is also visible in the dashboard as the value is greyed-out and is no longer accessible due to the added relation (A=100).  
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In Mechanism Motors are now features, which provides several advantages. One advantage is that the dashboard is unified and allows you to change the Driven Quantity in the Motor feature.   Check out the attached video for an example.  
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