How to get annotations displayed in Creo View's 'Viewables'

[AndreasHellmann]

Good morning to everybody,

perhaps someone of you have a solution for this problem:

I have defined some Combined States in a Creo assembly.

Some 3D annotations are assigned to specific combined states so that every state displays only certain annotations. This works fine in Creo Parametric 2 and 3.

I want these Combined states to be available under the "Viewables" Tab in Creo View (Lite).

I am using the RCP editor to configure the output of pvs/pvz files.

And in Creo I set the config option "intf_out_pvs_recipe_file" to the rcp file.

My problem:

When I export a PVS/PVZ file from Creo 2 (M180) the combined states are available in CreoView 3 (M031) as "Viewables", BUT annotations are shown in "Master View" only. The Combined States/Viewables doesn't show any annotations.

When I use  Creo 3 Parametric (M060) and the same rcp file for export to PVZ/PVS) then the notes/annotations are shown in CreoView 3 (M031). Creo 3 seems to use another option for this type of export.

My question:

Does anybody know if there is a config/rcp option for Creo 2 Parametric that ensures annotations to be displayed in CreoView Viewables? Our productive version is Croe 2 (and will be 2016), so Creo 3 isn't an option today.

Thanks in advance.

Andreas

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[MartinHanak]

Andreas,

I think that Creo functionality concerning annotations is still evolving. Therefore I guess that Creo 2.0 fuctionality will never reach Creo 3.0 fuctionality.

Please contact PTC Support and ask them the same question.

MH

[AndreasHellmann]

I am aware of the fact that a newer software release always brings new options and has a better functionality.

My concern is that perhaps PTC changed some default values for config.pro or rcp settings from version 2 to 3....

PTC customer support:

Unfortunately here in Germany PTC doesn't allow me to contact their support anymore (starting in early 2015) even when I have my license under maintainance.... I have to contact a reseller; but this means in reality: no support anymore.

Andreas

[MartinHanak]

Andreas,

ask your reseller to open Case at PTC Support and use your problem description.

MH

[AndreasHellmann · Accepted solution]

Just in case someone else will run into the same problem like me:

It turned out that there is a bug in Creo Parametric 2.0.

The problem is that all SimpReps with default rule "Exclude" cause annotations dissappear in CreoView's Viewables. After redefining these simreps to default rule "Master" everything works fine.

With Creo Parametric 3.0 (M030 >) and the CreoView 3.0 adapter (M032>) everything works fine.

At the moment (Dec 2015) it's not 100% clear if PTC will solve this in a datecode for Creo 2.

Andreas

[Anand]

Thanks Andreas for the latest update, we did face this issue as well, however we are moving to Creo view 3.0 now I guess that will solve the problem

Athmanand

[gkoch]

I am marking this post as Correct Answer to signal to community that the thread has a solution.

Gunter