That said, issues arise when you take into account very complex assemblies. Most systems these days can handle this part, creating the mix of both handed components and instances where needed. For instance, in many cases, you’ll need a mix of true mirrored parts, which are a reflection of the original across a plane, creating ‘handed’ components, and then parts that are simply copied across and assembled into the sub-system. Select the parts, select the mirror plane, done. Mirroring assemblies is a complex task that’s hidden behind a seemingly simple operation. An excellent example is the changes to the assembly mirroring tools. These typically extend the tools to make them either more efficient (by consolidating distinct workflows) or make those operations do more, more intelligently. In terms of functionality updates, there are a ton of new enhancements to features and functions that have been in the system for quite some time. Part mirroring is an area where PTC Creo 4.0 has upgraded in the functionality department That said, if you need to, you can flick your mouse to the side at the top of the screen, and they’ll pop up long enough for you to find the operation you want, then disappear again. With the updates to context sensitive toolbars, you can work in this without reference to the full ribbons and toolbars. This pulls back the various toolbars and ribbons around the system and lets you focus on the modelling task at hand. For instance, for those looking to bring new staff onboard who may have more experience elsewhere, these updates will help that process greatly.Īnother interesting move that supports this is the ability to switch to a full screen mode. What PTC has realised is that it needed to upgrade Creo to meet these expectations. These systems are now used by students who use them to learn their modelling practices. In its early days, Pro/E led the pack before other systems over took it in terms of adoption. Rather than carrying out a separate operation to add relationships or constraints, such items can now be quickly picked up at the cursor and added to the model, whether that’s end points, mid-points or centre points.įor those that are more experienced in other systems, this will seem a little late in the day - which is entirely the point. This is most prevalent when building those all important feature sketches. Each will provide a context sensitive toolbar (that can be customised to your requirements), so your reference to the toolbars will reduce and keep you focussed on the model.Īt the same time, PTC has also introduced on-the-fly constraint selection and inference. The same is true of faces, parts and such. If you select an edge, a mini toolbar is immediately available providing options that apply to that edge such as fillet (round) or chamfer. Now, when you select a geometric entity, the system highlights the appropriate entry in the history listing and vice versa.Īlongside this, the development team has worked on making the whole process more interactive and context sensitive. The Creo 4.0 release addresses some of this by introducing greater links between the model viewing and manipulation window and the feature history navigator, which weren’t particularly well connected up until now. Yes, the user interface moved to a tab/ribbon-like appearance, but the fundamental controls didn’t alter that much or, indeed, get updated that often. While Creo went through something of a change during its transition from Pro/E to Pro/E Wildfire in 2003, the truth of the matter is that the system, at its core, didn’t change that much in terms of how you interact with it in general. Perhaps the biggest update to Creo’s user experience can be found within the interface. As ever, there’s a wide range of updates and enhancements across all areas of Creo but, for the sake of this review, we’ll look at a few of the most widely applicable to all users and then delve into some of the more specialist updates that are of interest.
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