PTC Creo 9.0.7.0 with HelpCenter

Creo Harness Manufacturing

3D Edit Retention
Description: HMX now supports a fully iterative design process. With 3D Edit Retention, you can edit the harness in the three-dimensional assembly by adding, deleting, or editing wires, cables, and connectors while retaining the previous edits made to the drawing.
Benefits: This enhancement significantly reduces the time spent on post drawing cleanup activities.

Detailed Drawings

Blanking of Exterior Cell Borders in Drawing Tables
Description: You can now blank some or all table cell borders in drawings. This enhancement is useful when you want to organize and align an array of general notes, without showing the table borders around them.
For example, you can create a table of general notes and blank all the cell borders to make it look like a simple list.


Fixed Scale and Color Support for PAT Hatch Patterns
Description: You can now define PAT hatch patterns with a fixed scale that is not dependent on the model outline. You can also predefine the color of PAT hatch patterns.
When you apply hatching in drawings and models, the scale is automatically calculated based on the outline of the hatched area. In some use cases, you may want to have a fixed scale of hatching, regardless of the size of the hatched outline.
To enable the fixed scale, you must first set the new configuration option hatch_pattern_scale_in_drw to fixed.
In addition, you must add the following line to the corresponding hatching patterns in the hatch_pattern_scale.cfg file: PTC_HATCH_FIXED_SCALE <value>.
The location of the hatch_pattern_scale.cfg file may be defined by using the hatch_pattern_cfg_file configuration option.
You can now also specify the color to be used for the hatching lines as part of the hatch pattern definition.
Define the RGB color values for the hatching lines of a specific hatch pattern in one of the following ways:
- Using the Hatch Designer tool, which now contains a color widget that you can use during the hatch pattern definition.
- By adding the following line to the corresponding hatching patterns in the hatch_pattern_scale.cfg file: PTC_HATCH_COLOR_RGB <R_value> <G_value> <B_value>.

Model-Based Definition

Fixed Scale and Color Support for PAT Hatch Patterns

Description: You can now define PAT hatch patterns with a fixed scale that is not dependent on the model outline. You can also predefine the color of PAT hatch patterns.
When you apply hatching in drawings and models, the scale is automatically calculated based on the outline of the hatched area. In some use cases, you may want to have a fixed scale of hatching, regardless of the size of the hatched outline.
To enable the fixed scale, you must first set the new configuration option hatch_pattern_scale_in_drw to fixed.
In addition, you must add the following line to the corresponding hatching patterns in the hatch_pattern_scale.cfg file: PTC_HATCH_FIXED_SCALE <value>.
The location of the hatch_pattern_scale.cfg file may be defined by using the hatch_pattern_cfg_file configuration option.
You can now also specify the color to be used for the hatching lines as part of the hatch pattern definition.
Define the RGB color values for the hatching lines of a specific hatch pattern in one of the following ways:
- Using the Hatch Designer tool, which now contains a color widget that you can use during the hatch pattern definition.
- By adding the following line to the corresponding hatching patterns in the hatch_pattern_scale.cfg file: PTC_HATCH_COLOR_RGB <R_value> <G_value> <B_value>.

Part Modeling

Configuration Option to Control the Loading of .hol Files
Description: You can now use the new configuration option hole_load_system_param_files to control the loading of .hol files. The configuration option has the following values:
- yes*—Load the system-provided .hol files that contain the standard screw size parameters. You can specify an additional location from which to load the .hol files in the configuration option hole_parameter_file_path.
- no—If .hol files that define both TAP and TAPERED holes are present in the location specified in the hole_parameter_file_path configuration option, then do not load the system-provided .hol files.
This enhancement provides you with better control when loading .hol files.

Language Support