Changing origin of parts/assemblies in creo elements 20.1

[IceMelon]

Hello community members,

This is my first post on this forum. So i hope this place is somewhat active.

I have an issue where my assembly is loaded many meters away from the origin.

I can fix my issue by moving the parts within the assembly to the origin.

But then a more annoying problem arrises.

Now my origin is correct when loading in the model. But when I go to create a view in my 2D drafting environment, my origin is now still at the original location.

And my view becomes hard to allign to other views.

So my question is: When and how is the model origin decided? And can I change this within an existing model that is saved in a database?

[highway45 · Accepted solution]

You must not move the parts inside the assembly.

Move only the assembly or move the parts after loading them alone.

Best is always working near zero point, not in the neighbour village...

[IceMelon]

You are correct. Moving the assembly worked as I needed.

For some reason, i thought moving the assembly within the top layer wouldnt affect the load-in position.

But evidently it does.

I still find it unintuitive that i can't see or change the coordinate system with Creo Elements.

I believe this is possible with Creo Parametric... but alas.. we don't use that... Yet!

Thanks for the response.

[Kotom-Eng]

Before trying to change the origin, check if the assembly (the child) is used in other assemblies (the parents). If yes, changing the origin of the assembly-child will change the position of this assembly-child within all the assemblies-parents.