cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Community Tip - New to the community? Learn how to post a question and get help from PTC and industry experts! X

Creo Parametric Tips

Sort by:
Check out this great video about Multi-Body Design. Presenter:  Lino Tozzi and Ryan Butcher Date Presented:  February 16, 2021   (view in My Videos)   Take a deeper dive into this topic here, with this PTC University course. Creo: Multibody Design
View full tip
  Let's continue the conversation from the webinar: We’re Moving on Up! Ensuring the Success of your next Creo Parametric This session introduced our newly launched Success Path for upgrading your version of Creo, reviewed the tools available to you to harness the expertise of our Customer Success team.  If you missed the webcast you can watch the replay and add any questions you have here. Jake and other experts at PTC will help to get your questioned answered!  Speaker:   Watch the Replay Visit the Success Path Jake Koch, PTC Director, Customer Success Journey Lead CAD
View full tip
The best advice for anyone that has trouble in Sketcher is to keep the sketch simple. Do not try and make a single sketch that encompasses the entire model shape with all cuts and rounded or chamfered edges. Rather, create multiple sketches that are simple, with fewer entities. Fewer entities are easier to control when you start making design changes. Take this muffler model, for example:        The first solid geometry for this model started as this:        Followed by this:      Then this:        Simple sketches of few entities were created, and the solid geometry started to take shape. The sketches should consist of small bites of geometry, not the whole shape at once. For more on Sketching and other topics, check out PTC University's Creo: Fundamentals and Productivity Tools!  
View full tip
  With the wide-spread use of additive manufacturing, you now have more options than ever before for part and assembly design. That’s because without the restrictions of traditional manufacturing, more intricate structures can now be used to optimize weight, strength, and even heat distribution.   (For an overall introduction, read our Beginner’s Guide to Lattice Structures in Additive Manufacturing.)   In a recent presentation from PTC University, Matt Huybrecht discussed and demonstrated new features in Creo that support lattice structures for those who want to use them. However, before you start, a few questions came up that we thought you might find interesting:   Can I do a structural analysis on stochastic lattices? YES! The DISPLAY of the geometry is that of simplified representation geometry, but the lattice geometry does contribute to mass properties calculations. Therefore, you can leverage it in structural analyses.   How is the additive manufacturing functionality licensed in Creo Parametric and what are the differences? There are two licenses available:       Creo Additive Manufacturing Extension (AMX) – An add-on extension that provides lattice structure creation and optimization and printer tray setup. It includes basic additive manufacturing capabilities, including: Out-of-the-box 3D printer support for Stratasys and 3D Systems printers. Model preparation (tessellation) Printer tray setup Global scaling Printability validation Model interrogation Calculations of build material Option to order 3D print       Creo Additive Manufacturing Plus Extension – An add-on extension that provides 3D metal printer connectivity, printer management, and tools to automate support structure generation.    For even more guidance from the PTC University team, check out the new LEARN classes now available online.      
View full tip
Hello everyone and welcome to blog post #6 in this multibody blog series.   I got asked recently : How can I display a user-defined body parameter in the model tree? If you are interested in that as well, here is how you do it. Let’s walk through an example step-by-step.   Step 1) Let’s assign a body parameter (and let’s call it for example “MY_BODY_PARAM”)   Step 2) Open the Model Tree Columns display dialog   Step 3) Select the Type: Body Params     Step 4) You might notice that the list shows system parameters related to bodies (e.g. PTC_ASSIGNED_MATERIAL), but not the newly added user-defined parameter  Step 5) Manually enter the user-defined-parameter (in our example “MY_BODY_PARAM”) into the Name field     and click the double-arrow to move it into the displayed columns     Step 6) Click “OK” and ensure model tree columns are displayed. Now you should be able to see your body parameters as part of the displayed model tree columns   q.e.d. 🙂  I hope that helped.   Back to Creo 7.0 Multibody Home: Start Here!   Enjoy!....Martin
View full tip
The Flexible Modeling Mirror feature enables you to mirror geometry about a reference plane. Note: Surfaces are automatically extended and rounds are recreated at the intersecting edges if they exist.
View full tip
How to use Connect functionality in Freestyle or How to create a base frame for your Bike  
View full tip
Blog Post 2-    Hello everyone,   I thought you might be interested in some quick tipps and tricks around Boolean and Split operation for bodies. If you are, then enjoy the following seven 90sec Titbids on these body operations. Enjoy!...Martin   (view in My Videos)   Back to Creo 7.0 Multibody Home: Start Here!
View full tip
We are bringing the Liveworx UX Lab to you this year! Contribute to the design and development of PTC’s CAD products from the comfort of your home.   Participate in online 1:1 session with PTC Researchers and Designers to take our prototypes & conceptual designs for a spin, share your expertise to directly impact the experience of our future products.   For all Liveworx 2020 UX Lab sessions, click here   CAD/Creo session links: CREO: Cross Hatching in Drawings CREO: Generative Design CREO: Component Placement Enhancements CREO: ANSYS (Analysis System) Simulation CREO: Composite Design CREO: Additive Manufacturing CREO: Symbol Modernization Generative Design Futures ONSHAPE: CAD Workflows CREO: Software-as-a- Service (SaaS) CREO: Core User Experience CREO: User Experience Pain Points CREO ILLUSTRATE: Advanced Animation Timeline Editing CREO & WINDCHILL: Windchill Replace Assembly Action in Creo
View full tip
With Creo 7 the Sketch Mirror geometry can be: centerline, sketch reference, sketch straight entity.
View full tip
In this tutorial, you can learn How to create toroidal sweep and how it is possible to drive the shape by dimensions, relation and parameters.
View full tip
In some cases, you may not want Import Validation notifications when opening components in Creo Unite. For example, a model may have known issues, but you still want it in Creo for reference or for placements indicators.   Many users asked us for a way to toggle those notifications off (and on) after a model had been opened or imported. With Creo 6 or later, now you can.   With import validation notifications disabled, you don’t receive a report of failed validation in the Notification Center, or an indication of failed validation in the Model Tree. Here’s what you need to know to set your default to enable/disable these notifications:   To Enable or Disable Validation for Individual Components   If you want to disable or enable import validation notifications for individual components, right-click the component in the Model Tree and select Import Validation.    Image: Enabling import validation notifications for a component from the Model Tree   Note that when you select Enable Import Validation, it does not include import validation for models that have been imported or opened. And, it does not change the status for imported or opened models when they are modified.   To Enable or Disable This Validation by Default   If you want to enable/disable import validation notifications for all components, select or clear the Enable Import Validation checkbox in the Creo Parametric Options dialog box.   Watch the Demo   See a demonstration of these tips in the video below.       Get More Tips in Your Inbox   To receive more tips like this one right in your inbox, subscribe to our e-newsletter.    
View full tip
Hello, Is there a config setting that controls where versioned file backups are saved using a relative file path?   Ideally, when I hit ctrl-S, a new file without a version number would be saved in the working directory, and the versioned file would be saved to ./archive. I'm always purging the versioned files to keep my working directory cleaned up, but then if I need them, they're already gone. If I could automatically keep them in an archive folder, that would help my workflow.
View full tip
You probably know that Creo 6.0 became available recently. You can see an overview of what’s in the release here. Among the new capabilities, we’ve added homogenization for those simulating lattice structures. Arun Chavan from our development team offers this closer look at how homogenization works, why it matters, and the data behind the solution.     What Is Homogenization? Homogenization is a process of extracting effective material properties from a heterogeneous material and then viewing it as a continuum on the macroscopic level with the extracted properties ascribed to it.    Homogenization has many important and practical applications in material sciences, particularly where repeating lattice structures (and composites) are used.  That’s because computations of models with many lattices often prove difficult, time-consuming, and error prone. With homogenization, you have an effective approach for describing the overall behaviour of large lattice structures, without the complexity.   Improving Performance in Creo Say the number of cells in a structure exceeds 24,000. You may find it impractical to store or simulate full or simplified geometry models of that size in your system. These tasks simply require a too many computational resources. To facilitate the modelling of large lattice structures, Creo can now represent them as a continuous solid with material properties equivalent to those of the lattice structure.A solid with these effective material properties will have the same mass properties, stiffness, porosity, etc. as the original lattice structure.   Image: Creo 6.0.0.0 uses homogenization methods to facilitate the modelling of large lattice structures by computing and providing Creo Simulate the equivalent homogenized material properties. 1. Lattice structure; 2. Homogenous Continuum; 3. Process of Homogenization   What’s the Homogenization Procedure? Here’s more details about how it works: For a given lattice topology, we identify a unit cell. We apply Periodic Boundary Conditions on the unit cells and calculate overall effective material property. We then use these homogenized material properties for simulation.   Lattice Structures Then and Now In earlier Creo releases, to analyze lattice structures, the software would either create a full geometry lattice or simplified lattice. These both led to computationally intensive procedures, especially when the lattice region was large or included densely packed cells.   In Creo Parametric 6.0.0.0, the “homogenized” representation defines dense lattice structures without creating them in the model. An equivalent material property of the lattice region is extracted and used to get the equivalent mathematical model of material. In Creo Simulate, these equivalent homogenized material properties are then used to simulate the structure for linear static and modal response of a part. As a result, it takes less time to define a lattice, the model size is reduced, and simulation moves quicker.   The Data: How Do the Results Compare? We compared Creo 6.0.0.0 results for three lattice structures and all of them compared very well with baseline. The homogenization results converge when compared with full lattice geometry models. As you can see in the table below, the error declines with an increase in the number of lattices in a given volume.  
View full tip
Hi folks - in this short tutorial you can learn: How to prepare data in Creo Parametric and how to modify it with Creo Illustrate. All these simple steps will help you to prepare a great model for Augment reality and use it in Vuforia View:
View full tip
Here’s one more reason to download Creo 4.0 and try it out: Now you can see your simulation analysis results as a convergence plot and get more information for each step of the design study. Our expert explains:The overhaul of the analysis and the design study experience includes
View full tip
Have you downloaded Creo 4.0 yet? One tool you’ll want to start using right away is box selection, available throughout the product and in idle mode. With box select, you can make the selection by simply clicking and dragging, then invoke commands such as hide, for example. It’s easy
View full tip
In Creo 4.0, we introduced a number of features to make using model-based definition more seamless in your 3D CAD software. Among the changes: datum feature symbols can now be used as stand-alone annotations. In this post, our expert shows you how to make the most of this new feature.If
View full tip
One of the benefits of additive manufacturing is that it lets you manufacture complex shapes that would otherwise prove difficult or impossible to produce with traditional processes. Imagine sending these models to be injection molded:But with additive manufacturing, lattice structures
View full tip
How to change the license file in FlexNet Admin License Server 11.10.0 How to reconfigure FlexNet Admin License Server with an updated license file How to reconfigure the license manager with a new license file How to update the license server (lmadmin) to point to a new license file Error "(-12):Invalid returned data from license server system" when executing ptcstatus.bat in Flexnet Admin License Server How to update application with a new license file if license server is FlexNet Admin License Server (lmadmin) The client software does not recognize the new license file. Unable to find ptcsetup.bat to update the new license
View full tip
Covers creation of repeat region relations to control quantity for bulk items in an assembly BOM table.      
View full tip
Announcements