Re: Started Off Fine And Then Things Are Working In Slow Motion Now!
Hi David, Thanks for takng the time to reply to my question. I'm still in the tutorials and I can't manipulate the simple little lego block that they ask you to draw! I would imagine that that is a...
View ArticleRe: Started Off Fine And Then Things Are Working In Slow Motion Now!
Years ago I got some free program from PTC. Even though I had a mid-range OpenGL graphics card and a supported OS, it wouldn't work at all. A year later there was an update, which did run, but the...
View ArticleRe: Started Off Fine And Then Things Are Working In Slow Motion Now!
Ha, it's funny that you mention both of those programs Blender and Draftsight. I recently downloaded them because a guy from another EV site recommended Draftsight for drawings and I just came across...
View ArticleRe: RE: Bend Allowance
Hello, Japp How is this working for you. I'm rolling out a Creo 2 and was considering doing this for our site. We have a macine shop. Please let me know how sucessful this was for you. Regards,....
View ArticleRe: Significant increase in file size
yes changing to save_model_display wireframe made a huge difference when I asked about file size.
View ArticleRe: Dimensioning
Excuse my ignorance but how did you get that? That is what i'm wanting, the curved distance between the centers of those 2 circles
View ArticleRe: Dimensioning
Perimeter dimensions are created in sketches. You select the feature or features you want the perimeter value for and once you place the dimension, you need to select which dimension you wish to vary...
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Or maybe like this, pick perimeter and the variable dimension. The .50 is a construction arc (on top of construction circle), and then the construction line between them for the variable dimension....
View ArticleRe: Significant increase in file size
Yes... this is a big issue. As the display quality settings are increased, the "graphics display" geometric features are saved in the file when save_model_display is set to shaded. The finer the...
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Thanks a lot for the help Antonius and Matt. I do think i´ve tried that but i´ll try again on monday or before when i manage to download the program to my laptop.
View ArticleRe: Offset surface up to a datum point?
Create an analysis feature to measure and capture the distance from the point to the surface then set the offset to be equal to the measured distance.
View ArticleYour thoughts on tools for rapid identification and visualization of CAD...
The SketchRec 1.1 Beta SW by Imagars is capable of rapidly identifying complex design files of interest (2D or 3D), including Pro/Engineer part files. The tool automatically displays thumbnail images,...
View ArticleRe: Shift surface problem
Tom, Thanks again for your answer. My original part is a ".step", because the part has been created on CATIA. But I will try to send you another step, maybe it will be better. Marc
View ArticleTrail files in Creo 2.0 M090
OK, what is the trick to get trail files to work?So far I have had no luck, and have had many crashes. I have read that you have to remove the end of the trail file to get them to function.I carved out...
View ArticleRe: Trail files in Creo 2.0 M090
Change the suffix to .txa to stop it from crashing. This signals that it is a training file. Otherwise it will crash whenever it hits any bump. Little things like a view orientation has been saved that...
View ArticleRe: Trail files in Creo 2.0 M090
Hi David, thanks for the tip, presently I am seeing the typical beachball waiting for something to happen.With the file renamed as a .txa I thought things would recover.But something must be rally...
View ArticleRe: automatic constraints in sketch
Do you mean the menu options? A sketch is only going to automatically constrain to the point that it is fully constrained.
View ArticleRe: Trail files in Creo 2.0 M090
The trick to getting it to work is to make sure everything is exactly the same - eliminating all files that were saved after the trail file was first begun, any config options, same screen resolution....
View ArticleRe: mapkey trouble in Creo 2.0
maybe another mapkey for ref dimensions with (Ø in the prefix.
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