Creo Create Drawing Format

[Adriene]

Everything we have done all our existence has been in mm's. Because Dual Dimensioning doesn't know how to work correctly if you start with mm, I'm at a loss as to how to get a new drawing template that is in Inches. Some of it is that I have not created drawing templates in years and when I try to create a blank drawing to start my template, it wants to put all of my parameters as drawing parameters since there is no model to reference.

This is all because of needing to do dual dimensioning with mm and inches where the inches are in fractions and mm are decimals. Per PTC support, only way to do this is if inches is the primary and mm are secondary.

As a general rule, make sure the model parameters you intend to reference are called out in the format (and template) with the :MDL syntax. This will prevent the drawing from referencing its own parameters and only allow it to reference the model's.

The other thing I use quite a bit are single cell repeat regions with filters that limit them each to a single parameter's value. This works even better than the :MDL syntax above and won't fail if the model parameter is deleted and recreated (for whatever reason.)

I've been struggling, creating a d-size drawing template with front-right-isometric views. I've got that all set but now I am trying to figure out how to fill in the title block information. I've seen some videos that show a prompted entry for those fields, but apparently I don't have those built in formats.

In order to have intelligence in the formats (.fmt file), you have to build the format with tables. Any variable within a table can be either prompted or better yet, read information from the part/assembly files.

You can build some fairly complex tables that look like titleblocks in drawings. You can erase table lines, assign line weights (or colors), and you size and place them exactly. The hardest trick is to make a title optionally 1 or 2 line, but that is definitely next level stuff.

The next level you can add your well defined format to a drawing. These drawings can be made into "template" files even though they are still drawing files. You can preset a lot of information, including predefined views and view states. 1st master the format, and we can come back to the template.

Last note; when a format prompts you for information, the variable character for that field is lost. Typically (not always) the data for the format is included in the part or assembly files using relations (or just parameters). To restore the variables, you can re-insert the format in the drawing.

Attached is a tutorial on drawing formats and templates created by consultant and Creo trainer John Forth. This explains how formats and templates work and the process of setting up your own layouts and title blocks. It was written for Wildfire 5 so some of the menus may have changed but the principles still apply.

PTC provides comprehensive e-learning through Precision LMS. You may be able to access this through your university faculty. Alternatively, students can purchase a discounted license in the PTC e-store.

I found that going one step deeper has been very useful. I created a sketch of our company logo, with the fancy lettering and the graphics and all that. Saved that sketch in a safe and accessible place, and used it to create the dwg for the drawing formats and all that.

The sketch is very useful for future projects, because I can bring it in and engrave the company logo onto anything I want. Because it's a sketch it behaves like a raster image and doesn't suffer any undesirable geometric artifacts when enlarged, etc.

They had paid a large sum of money to create the stylized logo and said that my 'interpretation' of the logo, while intentions were good, could cause the corporation to lose its copyright protection on the logo. They insisted that only corporate graphics department could give me a file that I could put into the drawing formats. Unfortunately, I could never get them to give me a DXF to import into a CAD system. They had jpeg, pdf and png formats for Word, etc., but would not go to the expense to convert the logo to DXF.

You'll want to put the drawing formats in a directory that your users don't have write access to. Use the config option pro_format_dir to specify the path to your chosen directory. Also, changes to drawing formats while in drawing mode aren't saved. The format is a separate file from the drawing file.

I have a client who has created a fairly extensive model of a device using Creo. He has hired me to create 2D drawings from his model. We are struggling to convert the Creo files to an AutoCAD format. Within Creo, there are several parameters to be set in the export process and I've not experience with Creo and can't help him. Though trial and error, he has been able to export drawings so that AutoCAD recognizes them as solids but so far, when I explode an item in a drawing that he has converted to dwg, say a flat plate with holes in it, the circles representing the holes are actually two semi-circles. I am hoping someone knows the proper settings of the parameters within Creo in order to produce a dwg file that will behave as if it were created in AutoCAD. BTW, Simply saving the Creo drawing to a dwg format does not work. The model comes in as triangular surfaces when he does that.

I have requested the drawings in Creo asm and prt format. I plan to try the import command in AutoCAD of those formats to see how that works. Perhaps letting AutoCAD perform the translation is the solution.

My company uses Creo for product development and I am in charge of creating dwg-files of the parts/models. I have found that the easiest way to produce 2d drawings in dwg-format is to make the 2d drawings in Creo and then just export them to dwg.

I'm considering this closed. We settled upon the plan of the client converting the Creo drawings into step files. I can open them in Autocad 2021 and develop the 2D drawings from his 3D model. The only problem I've found with that is that when I pull a face from an exploded part (at that point the face is a region) and explode it the circles are in two hemi-circles. I can deal with that. If it presents a problem I'll just replace the circle with one drawn in AutoCAD.

I've been working as a working student with Creo for quite some time now, so I decided to use it for a university project. Therefore, I downloaded the Creo Parametric Student 10.0 version and I'm on the verge of despair because I can't seem to find or insert a drawing template frame.

Unfortunately, the download didn't come with any frames or title blocks, and after intensive internet research, I still couldn't find any. I've already gone through all the relevant posts here as well.

Can someone help me and provide an A2 or A3 frame for this version? I've already manually created the title block according to ISO standards, but I can't find the exact data for creating the frame with letters, etc.

I am sure this is a simple one but I am spinning my wheels on how to do this. I would like to add a general note section(see example below) to the drawing formats so when the user creates a drawing they are able to edit these notes or add to them in the drawing. I tried adding an annotation feature to the start part and then placed the callout in the format (e) and when that format is used to create a drawing the note doesn't populate. I am trying to make this simple for the users so they don't have to create a NOTE, from file in drawing mode each time a drawing is created.

We have these Items in the title block on the format. The entries come from the parameters within the model. These are part of a longer list of parameter items that are in our start parts. When the user creates a model, assembly/part, the entries are editable within the parameter file. When they start the drawing all the fields on the format are populated accordingly.

You definitely want to add your notes to a drawing template. Templates give you the ability to add notes, symbols, and other annotations to each drawing as it's created. Davig Haigh's presentation probably covers this in depth. A drawing template is different than a format. Think of the format as just the drawing frame with relevant intelligent text you'd expect to see in a format (title block, rev block, border, perhaps a BOM, etc). A drawing template is much different.

Let's say you needed to make a series of injection molded plastic parts. All of these parts have similar notes. Let's say you also need to make a series of sheet metal parts with another set of notes custom to those sheet metal parts. Going further, assume you also have a series of machined parts with yet another set of custom notes and even some special symbols for part marking. In this situation, templates are your best friend.

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