Page 3 of 5 PTC Creo 3.0 Tips and Tricks PTC.com White Paper Figure 6: With PTC Creo Parametric 3.0, you orient the green triangle to face the user by simply selecting this surface and using the View Normal command. Tip 4—Simplifying the Smart Filter PTC Creo Parametric provide various filters, including.
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Computer-Aided DesignThis is a place to talk about anything related to CAD. Share CAD related news, ask questions about CAD software, ask how to get into the business or show off your latest 3D model.Computer-Aided Design, or just CAD, describes the use of computer software to assist in the creation, modification, analysis or optimization of a design. CAD software is used for creating 3D models, technical drawings and documentation for manufacturing of a product, construction of a building or civil works. So, I'm having a marvelous time with this one.I've been asked to find a way to improve the quality of our PDFs.
We've been using the 'Save as PDF' option, and the lineweights are all pretty chunky, and for a lot of fine detail it really isn't up to scratch.I've found out about Pentables. I have one set up, and all the appropriate flags set in my config.pro. Slight problem - Save As PDF won't use it! It just tells me 'C:work not found', and prints as normal.Well, thinks I, bollocks to that.And now I've started digging into setting up a PCF file to do it.Jesus Christ, this is a mess!So far I've got it outputting postscript files (.ps) - but I can't get it to produce a PDF.
It looks like I may have to write a script to convert it manually using Ghostscript or somesuch?Somewhere along the way it's stopped centreing the print. The output is off to one side or another, and I can't find a way to fix it.
I thought the 'plottranslate' option might have something to do with it - but apparently not.Thus far I've been relying on random posts I've found on ENGTips or the MCAD forums, with random stuff posted from back in the days of Wildfire to use as examples.Anyone got any experience with this? Better yet, any robust, detailed guides anywhere? Maybe a list of all the options and a description of what they actually do?. Sorry for posting a week late, when you may have already found another workaround, but I think I know what the problem might be.Unlike many other settings files you can call out in a config.pro, relative paths don't work for the 'pentablefile' statement.
You have to call out the full windows path. Alternatively, omit this line from the config.pro, and instead just make sure the pen table is left in the 'working directory', with the default filename; 'table.pnt'.The config.pro will still need the line 'pdfusepentable yes'.Prior to a bug being fixed with Creo Parametric 2.0 M120, the 'table.pnt' file in the working directory approach would only work if you actually saved the PDF to that directory. This was one of the first bugs I reported that they actually fixed.
If you have a PTC support account, you can read the ticket about that.We do use the 'Save as PDF' technique to create our PDF's, and there are no problems now that I've learned these tricks, have pushed the pentable and config setting out to my colleagues, and have upgraded us all to a version where the bug is fixed. Other PDF techniques seem like too much trouble.I am curious, what values you decided on for your pentable? After much testing, with various page sizes, reading on screen, and making hard copies with two printers we had at the time (different brands and very different results).
I set all eight pens to 0.010 inches. Thank you for the detailed response!Actually, we got it working. I was haring off into the wonderful world of decoding how the hell printing systems actually work, and writing scripts for workarounds, etc. I was actually making decent progress, though it was rather involved.
Then my colleague wanders over to point out I was missing a backslash - 'C:work.' Should have been 'C:work.'
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.We're still working on the pen table - we're a busy shop, so there really isn't much time for tinkering. As such, we're basically tweaking it as we go.
From memory, I think we're currently running 0.01cm for most lines, and hidden detail is half that.
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