Thanks for for the annotation demo. Very helpful! Could you please demonstrate how to manage annotation on an inseperable assy? For example a plate with keenserts, dowel pins. Should the annotation features be created at the part or assy level? Thanks again!
Hey, Is there a way to add centermarks and centerlines in MBD? I'm just starting to learn about how to do MBD and we plan to start doing this more and more at work. I do think centermarks and centerlines make drawings more readable and would like to include them in the models as well.
You can show axes as supplemental geometry, but there’s really no need to. But one thing a lot of people get wrong about MBD is thinking that it’s replicating a 2D drawing in 3D. It’s not. So some things like center marks are not supported in the standard or in Creo.
@@CADPLMGuy Thanks for the info! :) We were not planning to have it replace 2D drawings but use it as a way to speed up that part of our developement process. (I'm old school in that sence and I actually like making 2D drawings after my modelling is finished ;) ) Your comment I assume also counts for other things like sections and so on? Or can those be incorporated in combined states?
I recommend you watch my videos on MBD and Managing Visualization (Combined States, Explode States, etc.) to see what you can do with MBD. No, my statement does not apply to sections. Those are an essential part of MBD for manufacturing and inspection, and are included in both the ASME standard and Creo's functionality. As I've mentioned in several videos, you can also download MIL-STD-31000 for free to see what should be in MBD. We often tell our clients that if you're not incorporating MBD into your supply chain, manufacturing, and inspection, you're not going to experience much benefit from incorporating MBD into your process. I wrote an eBook for PTC last year that's available on their website. It's a good primer for getting started in MBD in about 15 pages.
Hi Thank's for all you videos. I really like them. Question: Does Creo as well offer an option to change the text and symbol size of annotations. Best would be, if the text size is linked to the screen or creo window size? So far, in our creo environment, the text and symbol size seems to be fixed. So if I zoom in in 3D modeling finally the text or symbols grows to screen size and now geometry remains visible.
I never really noticed that. Flat to Screen notes stay the same size. I recommend contacting PTC Technical Support. If there isn’t an option, I recommend submitting an enhancement request. I know Michael and the other product managers pay attention to those.
Dave, Do you know WHY driving dimensions cannot be added as annotation features? (in Creo 7 for examples)? Not being able to designate a driving dimension as a control characteristic is something I do not understand. I am sure Creo has a very good reason of such approach, but I do not know what it is.
Driving dimensions belong to the feature that owns them. Creo has been moving away from Annotation Features for a few versions. Their main uses now are organization and including 3D Annotations in Data Sharing Features.
@@CADPLMGuy Dave, May I ask you a question regarding "Creo has been moving away from Annotation Features for a few versions. " If Creo is moving away from Annotation Feature what is the replacement? If moving away in favor of what? I am trying to understand the new versions of Creo 7 or 8.
And one more comment about annotation features: if you move all created annotation features to the Footer, as you suggested in your video, then how you are able to publish them? I think you are not able to use them in the Publish Geometry, don't you? Again, I am learning, and if I am wrong I will stand corrected.
Move it out of the Footer if you need to. It looks like I created this in Creo 5 or 6, and the particulars depend on version. For example, starting in Creo 7 or 8, Publish Geoms are created in the Footer by default.
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Thanks for for the annotation demo. Very helpful! Could you please demonstrate how to manage annotation on an inseperable assy? For example a plate with keenserts, dowel pins. Should the annotation features be created at the part or assy level? Thanks again!
In Creo 9, you can create them at either level.
Yes, I've been using annotation features; I did learn some new things about them from your video.
Glad to hear that!
How did you add the green separation line between the model tree and the footnote section?
I think it was Creo 6.0 when the Insert Here arrow changed to the green bar.
Hey, Is there a way to add centermarks and centerlines in MBD? I'm just starting to learn about how to do MBD and we plan to start doing this more and more at work. I do think centermarks and centerlines make drawings more readable and would like to include them in the models as well.
You can show axes as supplemental geometry, but there’s really no need to. But one thing a lot of people get wrong about MBD is thinking that it’s replicating a 2D drawing in 3D. It’s not. So some things like center marks are not supported in the standard or in Creo.
@@CADPLMGuy Thanks for the info! :) We were not planning to have it replace 2D drawings but use it as a way to speed up that part of our developement process. (I'm old school in that sence and I actually like making 2D drawings after my modelling is finished ;) )
Your comment I assume also counts for other things like sections and so on? Or can those be incorporated in combined states?
I recommend you watch my videos on MBD and Managing Visualization (Combined States, Explode States, etc.) to see what you can do with MBD. No, my statement does not apply to sections. Those are an essential part of MBD for manufacturing and inspection, and are included in both the ASME standard and Creo's functionality. As I've mentioned in several videos, you can also download MIL-STD-31000 for free to see what should be in MBD.
We often tell our clients that if you're not incorporating MBD into your supply chain, manufacturing, and inspection, you're not going to experience much benefit from incorporating MBD into your process.
I wrote an eBook for PTC last year that's available on their website. It's a good primer for getting started in MBD in about 15 pages.
Hi
Thank's for all you videos. I really like them.
Question:
Does Creo as well offer an option to change the text and symbol size of annotations. Best would be, if the text size is linked to the screen or creo window size?
So far, in our creo environment, the text and symbol size seems to be fixed. So if I zoom in in 3D modeling finally the text or symbols grows to screen size and now geometry remains visible.
I never really noticed that. Flat to Screen notes stay the same size. I recommend contacting PTC Technical Support. If there isn’t an option, I recommend submitting an enhancement request. I know Michael and the other product managers pay attention to those.
Very informative. is there any way to use annotation feature in the drawing format if I want to create parameter driven roughness or other symbols?
Please see this video: ua-cam.com/video/NBSQrgJIWtc/v-deo.html
Dave,
Do you know WHY driving dimensions cannot be added as annotation features? (in Creo 7 for examples)?
Not being able to designate a driving dimension as a control characteristic is something I do not understand. I am sure Creo has a very good reason of such approach, but I do not know what it is.
Driving dimensions belong to the feature that owns them. Creo has been moving away from Annotation Features for a few versions. Their main uses now are organization and including 3D Annotations in Data Sharing Features.
@@CADPLMGuy
Dave,
May I ask you a question regarding "Creo has been moving away from Annotation Features for a few versions. "
If Creo is moving away from Annotation Feature what is the replacement? If moving away in favor of what?
I am trying to understand the new versions of Creo 7 or 8.
Moving away from needing them at all and having the functionality available directly in the 3D Annotations themselves.
And one more comment about annotation features: if you move all created annotation features to the Footer, as you suggested in your video, then how you are able to publish them? I think you are not able to use them in the Publish Geometry, don't you? Again, I am learning, and if I am wrong I will stand corrected.
Move it out of the Footer if you need to. It looks like I created this in Creo 5 or 6, and the particulars depend on version. For example, starting in Creo 7 or 8, Publish Geoms are created in the Footer by default.