Ok, so here’s my bit, a rant maybe. I’m an old Acad user, an AME user, a Mechanical Desktop user, and finally an Inventor guy. My new job has me in a Pro E environment, and I have been learning & using Pro E / Creo Elements Pro 5.. Some things I do like with Pro E, and there are some things I don’t. Like everyone else!! I do have a bunch of Acad habits, some hard to break, some easy. And of course, I do have the occasional wishes that Pro E performed like Inventor. But this is a CAD package, and like everything else, it has its own flavour. I’ve gone thru the Pro E university courses, and while they did get me up to speed, I do have a few reservations on that topic too. One thing is for sure, that Pro E resources & how-to’s are few & far between. This site seems to be one of the only extensive collection of help & advice. While I have found all I’m looking for, below are a few wishes and some questions I haven’t yet found answers to...
All or nothing. If I want to see a work plane, an axis, or a work point, you get them all, or none. No way (seems so) of turning on one or two, only one for a particular part or assembly. And the labels associated with.. clutter on clutter! In an assembly of more than 10 parts, that becomes [at least] 30 planes on at once! Any way to turn on one or two at a time?!
Parent / child dependencies.. Don’t get me started! Now, not only do I have to think about my design, but I have to think how I assemble the intended design just to see if it works.. A good hour or two wasted trying to get the assembly order right to drive a simple linkage to a rotating handle & shaft, which are both constrained to the same base part.. Inventor got rid of this since day one. Solidworks (form what I understand) also got rid of this concept.. It would be nice to slide the parts around while you constrain them too… Because, as per expected (an a law by Murphy) it’ll always snap to the wrong side, the wrong location as you assemble. Is there a way to move a part around in an assembly? to get it to the position you want without resorting to driving by constraints? or give it a constraint or two and then manually move to the intended position?
If I pick a surface to sketch on, why can’t it keep the view / orientation I’ve set it to.. It has to do its little dance to get the surface to what it want. I then move & rotate the view back to what I had, usually an iso view. That’s how I work. And why do I have to choose sketch references. Why can’t I just pick a side, and edge, a hole, a .. to reference my dims to?
So, anyone know if I can:
Turn on & off certain datum / work planes?
How can I move one part around in an assembly?
Can I stop it from 'dancing' when I want to sketch on a particular surface?
p
All or nothing. If I want to see a work plane, an axis, or a work point, you get them all, or none. No way (seems so) of turning on one or two, only one for a particular part or assembly. And the labels associated with.. clutter on clutter! In an assembly of more than 10 parts, that becomes [at least] 30 planes on at once! Any way to turn on one or two at a time?!
Parent / child dependencies.. Don’t get me started! Now, not only do I have to think about my design, but I have to think how I assemble the intended design just to see if it works.. A good hour or two wasted trying to get the assembly order right to drive a simple linkage to a rotating handle & shaft, which are both constrained to the same base part.. Inventor got rid of this since day one. Solidworks (form what I understand) also got rid of this concept.. It would be nice to slide the parts around while you constrain them too… Because, as per expected (an a law by Murphy) it’ll always snap to the wrong side, the wrong location as you assemble. Is there a way to move a part around in an assembly? to get it to the position you want without resorting to driving by constraints? or give it a constraint or two and then manually move to the intended position?
If I pick a surface to sketch on, why can’t it keep the view / orientation I’ve set it to.. It has to do its little dance to get the surface to what it want. I then move & rotate the view back to what I had, usually an iso view. That’s how I work. And why do I have to choose sketch references. Why can’t I just pick a side, and edge, a hole, a .. to reference my dims to?
So, anyone know if I can:
Turn on & off certain datum / work planes?
How can I move one part around in an assembly?
Can I stop it from 'dancing' when I want to sketch on a particular surface?
p