My company made the jump from WF3 to Creo2, and I'm struggling a bit with drawings. It's been a while since I've used Pro/E, as most of my recent projects have been in Solidworks, so I may just be a bit rusty. The modeling has been easy to get back into, but I'm really struggling with drawing creation, specifically geometric tolerancing.
In the past, I would create geotol datums and tolerances in the model, and simply show them in the drawing when that time came. It seems to be a bit more complex now in Creo. After much trial and error, I've finally managed to get my geotols into the model and displayed on the drawing. It took a while to figure out, and I'm still not sure I quite grasp the new "Annotate" tab. I could create datums and geotols to my hearts content, but it was a 50/50 shot if they would even show in any drawing view. Sometimes the datum would display, but the geotol attached to it would not, or could only be shown in a specific view. I ended up deleting and recreating the reference datums and geotols several times until the eventually would display somewhere on the drawing.
One of the main things that is a bit confusing, as there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to what view you can and cannot display the annotations. The annotations I've created were placed on specific planes, but will not display on those planes/view oreintations in the drawing. If I go back to the model, and move the annotation to a different plane, the drawing does not seem to care at all. It just stays in it's current position and view. Sometime there would be several view options to display a datum target, but not the associated geotol. It's just very odd. The datums can usually be shown in multiple views, but not the associated geotol.
The other thing that has me a bit confused is hiding datums/geotols in the model. In the past, I've used the environment setting to not display notes created from taped holes, and layers to hide geotols/datums. Things seem to be a bit different. The only way I can manage to hide a geotol or datum is to right click on the annotation from the detail tree when in the annotate tab and erase it. When in the model, and in the annotate tab, the "show annotation" button will not allow me to not display the datum or geotol regardless of what I click on.
Besides that, the learning curve hasn't been to bad. It took me a little while to find the existing features and settings I'm used to using. Everything is still there, just in a differnt place. The creation of geotols/datums has alway been a bit counterintuitive, but I knew how to do it. However, with Creo I can't make any sense of it. Can anyone add some clarity, or tips, or point me to a good guide? Am I the only one struggling with detailing?
Creo2.0 M070