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Multibody Info – Collection

Multibody Info – Collection   Creo 7.0 - What’s new:  Multibody Design Creo 7.0 – Multibody Tutorials (7 tutorials around multibody use cases including demo models, step by step instructions, videos and more etc) Creo Multi-Body @ Creo 7.0 PTC Virtual Conference – Includes a Multibody Use Cases & Benefits overview presentation Liveworx  2020 presentation  Creo 7.0 Product Update Multibody Design - recording Liveworx  2020 presentation  Creo 7.0 Product Update Multibody Design - slides Liveworx 2020 presentation  Creo 7.0 Multibody Design - youtube CAD Conference October 2021 - Multibody Tipps & Tricks  / Adoption  / What to watch out for (replay) More to come   Back to the main blog  Creo 7.0/8.0+ Multibody Home: Start Here!
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mneumueller
17-Peridot
May 18, 2020

3D datum axis (3D center line)

Do you need a 3D center line? Here are a few steps   (view in My Videos)
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VladimirPalffy
14-Alexandrite
Apr 19, 2011

Chain modeling - geometry based | Creo Tutorial

Do you need to create model of a Chain? It is hard to follow the curve and set all geometry dimensions correctly? Here is the step by step tutorial - how to create 3D model of Chain.
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VladimirPalffy
14-Alexandrite
Jul 30, 2021

Creo Parametric Automation

Check out this video on Automating Creo Parametric from PTC Application Engineers  Presenters: Lino Tozzi (Technical Specialist, Fellow) and Tom Quaglia  (Creo Segment Sales).   (view in My Videos)    
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Lino_Tozzi
13-Aquamarine
Apr 26, 2022

Unconventional modeling with Creo

One example of Unconventional modeling with Creo
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VladimirPalffy
14-Alexandrite
Jul 14, 2021

Creo Flow for Multiple Industries, Tips n, Techniques

Check out this video on Creo Flow for Multiple Industries from PTC & Simerics. Presenters: Tom Quaglia (Solution Consultant, Fellow), Todd Kraft (Creo Product Manager), Rich Moore (VP, Simerics) & Alex Jiang (Senior Application Engineer, Simerics)  Original Date Presented: May 7th,  2025.       
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Lino_Tozzi
13-Aquamarine
May 9, 2025

Model Trees, AR Experiences, and Curved Surfaces: Tips from the Creo Masters

Ready for another 15 minutes of Creo tips from our product manager experts?   In the videos below, you’ll see how to avoid pitfalls when adding components to a Model Tree, a faster way to reach your AR experiences, and tips for getting embossed text on curved surfaces.   Drag-and-Drop Without Restructuring the Model Tree   Normally when you drag-and-drop parts and subassemblies in the Model Tree, they're moved to wherever you drop them. However, restructuring components can lead to unwanted changes in the assembly structure.   However, you can change this behavior so Model Tree components are not restructured when you drag-and-drop components.   In this tutorial, Arnaud van de Veerdonk, Creo Product Manager, shows you how:     Bookmark Your AR Experiences   Reviewing an augmented reality (AR) experience of a Creo model over and over? Stop opening that experience using the link in your email. Instead, save a few steps by creating a bookmark that automatically launches the AR experience.   In this short tutorial, Creo Product Manager, Luke Westbrook shows you how to create a bookmark on your mobile device to quickly open an AR experience.   See how to do it:     Add Embossed Text to a Cylindrical Surface   If you've ever designed a text element to emboss on a curved part, you know that getting it just right can be a mind bender. Demystify the process. Watch the tutorial below to see how to create embossed text on a cylindrical surface in Creo Parametric with as few clicks as possible.   In the tutorial, Mark Fischer, Sr. Director of Product Management shows you how to:   Wrap text around a curved surface. Turn the text into a designated area (a quilt that can be used to indicate areas for close examination or a special treatment), create an offset of the designated area, and then use the thicken feature to create the embossed text. Edit the appearance of the embossed text (defining the size, font, angle, etc.). Edit the definition for the text (defining the size, font, angle, etc.).   Watch how it's done here:     For more tips from our experts, watch the Tips from the Creo Masters main page.  
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cmcclintock
13-Aquamarine
Apr 16, 2020

56 - IIT: Flying Robots & The Future of Human-Machine Collaboration

At the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa, humanoid robots are no longer just science fiction, they’re being developed for tasks such as assisting human workers in factories and even flying into disaster zones. We head inside IIT’s robotics lab with Daniele Pucci, Head of Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence to wave hello to some of the robots and explore how these advanced machines could become an integral part of our world in the next decade.      
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olivierlp
Community Manager
Mar 21, 2025

Custom 3D text offeset from the surface

Watch this video if you need create a 3D text offeset from the surface.   Music by: iodic     (view in My Videos)
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VladimirPalffy
14-Alexandrite
Apr 23, 2011

The Renaissance of CAD: What's New, What's Now & What You Can Do With It

Join us on April 23, at 10:00AM ET or 4:00PM ET for PTC’s Virtual Conference The Renaissance of CAD: What's New, What's Now & What You Can Do With It. You’ll stay ahead of the latest advances in product design such as:   Generative design Real-time simulation as a normal part of your job Design for additive manufacturing Easier collaboration with augmented reality Building smart connected products This virtual event includes expert presentations, demonstrations, and plenty of resources that you can use now to make your job easier.   Save your seat today!
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sbarbuto
5-Regular Member
Apr 3, 2019

Creo Ansys Tips n' Techniques

Check out this video on Creo Ansys from PTC Application Engineers. Presenters: Lino Tozzi (Technical Specialist, Fellow) & Tom Quaglia (Creo Segment Sales). 
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Lino_Tozzi
13-Aquamarine
Sep 28, 2022

Did you notice the Spool Improvements?

Did you notice that you can now Identify a spool by name in the model tree Edit the parameters of a spool from the model tree Differentiate between manual and logical spools   Watch the attached video to learn more
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JimBarrettSmith
15-Moonstone
Jun 10, 2016

Creo ECAD MCAD Collaboration Tips and Techniques

Check out this video on Creo ECAD MCAD Collaboration from PTC Application Engineers  Presenters: Jason Petersen (Solution Consulting, Principle) and Lino Tozzi (Solution Consulting, Fellow).   (view in My Videos)
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Lino_Tozzi
13-Aquamarine
Aug 3, 2022

Tip for Sketching

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!  
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K_Stevens
5-Regular Member
Nov 19, 2020

Multibody - Model Tree Auto-locate Capability Update – Creo 7.0 vs Creo 8.0, Creo 9.0

Multibody - Model Tree Auto-locate Capability Update – Creo 7.0 vs Creo 8.0 & Creo 9.0    Hello all,   As I got a few comments & questions from time-to-time about the auto-locate functionality and its behavior, I wanted to shed some light on Auto-locate configurations and related changes between Creo 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0.   What is auto-locate? Auto-locate is the capability to automatically find, show and highlight selected items in the tree. When you select geometry in the graphics, auto-locate will find the feature that created that geometry, expand nested tree hierarchy levels where required, and scroll the tree so you can see the tree node of that feature. When auto-locate was introduced, features were shown only once (e.g there was single node in the model tree representing the feature) and so there was no ambiguity as to which tree node instance of the feature to actually auto-locate to.   #1)  Creo 7.0:  With the introduction of Multi-body in Creo 7.0, we introduced the Design Items folder that optionally allowed to list the bodies in the model along with their contributing features. This led to additional feature nodes showing up in the tree. ( Note: The display can be configured within the model tree filter settings)   For Creo 7.0, the following options were available to control the body and body features display:   Note that the option “Auto locate features in body sub-nodes” allowed to control whether a feature node should be located in the feature tree as it worked in the past or whether it should be auto-located underneath the body that it contributes geometry to (e.g. locating the feature node within the contributing features list of/underneath a body)   #2) In Creo 8.0 we added more options, added the display of quilts and their contributing features in the Design Items Folder, and moved the auto-location option to a new place. It now resides together with all the other auto-locate and highlighting related tree options. To control the auto-locate behavior, you now need to go to the “Selection Priority” setting under the tree options and set it to “Feature List” or “Design Items”. As you can see in the screen shot, the round surface  selection in the graphics triggers an auto-location to the feature node in the regular feature tree list and not within the Design Items as the setting is set to "Feature List".   But there is additional flexibility: In a configuration where both trees are shown, you can now actually achieve a simultaneous auto-locate in the feature tree and Design Items tree side-by-side.       #3) In Creo 9.0 (Beta) you will find the Selection Priority in that same place underneath the Tree Options within the tree's new toolbar. In addition you will find some additional auto location related enhancements once this version releases to the public.    I hope that helps you to customize the tree display and the auto-locate behavior to your personal preferences and needs.   Back to Creo 7.0/8.0++ Multibody Home: Start Here!
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mneumueller
17-Peridot
Mar 28, 2022

New Cabling Relation Function

You can now create a relation for example between a relation and a hole. the new New Relation Function is as follows Diameter for a particular location “<bundle_name>*”,<location_ID) Maximum diameter of the bundle “<bundle_name>*”,-1 Maximum diameter of a wire “<wire_name>”,-1   Watch the attached video to see an example of how to apply the relation
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JimBarrettSmith
15-Moonstone
Jun 6, 2016

Create Points by Offset Coordinate System

A few steps how easy to create Points by Offset Coordinate System   (view in My Videos)
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VladimirPalffy
14-Alexandrite
Jan 13, 2012

Creo Clearance and Creepage Analysis Tips and Techniques

Check out this video on Creo Schematics from PTC Application Engineers  Presenters: Lino Tozzi (Solution Consulting, Fellow) and Ryan Butcher (Solution Consulting, Fellow).   Creo Clearance and Creepage Analysis Learning   (view in My Videos)
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RyanL.Butcher
14-Alexandrite
Jun 23, 2022

07 - Multibody – How to display, use or call-out a body parameter – Part 1

Hello everyone and welcome to blog post #7 in this multibody blog series. This post also attempts to answer another body parameter related question: How can I display, use or call-out a body parameter? If you want to call out a body parameter then you have to use the syntax as explained in the Creo help here.   &<param_name>:BID_<body_feature_ID> Or &<param_name>:BID_<body_userdefined_name>   Note: For bodies that have the default name (body 1, body 2, etc) you cannot use the system-defined default body name but you have to use the body’s Feature ID. (The reason is that the system-defined names such as body 1, body 2, etc are localized and translated into other languages and therefore not representing stable references across languages.)   Example: Let’s assume we have 2 bodies. Here their names and parameters list.     To call out the parameter “MY_BODY_INFO” for both bodies, we can now use the following for body 1 &MY_BODY_INFO:BID_-5778   And one of the following options for the WHEEL body (which has id 6105) &MY_BODY_INFO:BID_6105 &MY_BODY_INFO:BID_WHEEL   So if you create a note and enter: You will see the resulting note text being: I think we have a preference of using body names. Therefore the system automatically tries to convert the body IDs to body names where possible. So when you go back to the call-out symbol definition, you will see it being changed to   Thanks for reading. I hope it was informative.   Back to Creo 7.0 Multibody Home: Start Here!   Enjoy!....Martin
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mneumueller
17-Peridot
Oct 14, 2020

Creo 7 tutorial: Rendering process from beginning to end

Do you need to render your models? Here is the tutorial: Rendering from scratch with Creo 7.
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VladimirPalffy
14-Alexandrite
May 23, 2020

61 - Scalextric4Schools: Full Throttle Learning for the Engineers of the Future

How slot car racing is turbocharging STEM education—students design, build, and race like F1 engineers using real tools in a nationwide UK challenge.    
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olivierlp
Community Manager
Oct 2, 2025
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