I am in the process of updating mapkeys from WF to Creo 2 in preparation for using Creo 2 for production work. I have seen comments for a while asking for a measure tool to report the delta with respect to a Cartesian reference frame. This was a WFmapkey that does just that and I have updated it to work with Creo 2. I am uploading here and asking for users to try it out and provide some feedback on usability and reliability.
Is it possible to add it to the Analysis tab in the ribbon? I have added it to the the quick access toolbar for testing but the WF custom icon is cropped there rendering it confusing and I would prefer to have it in the Analysis tab if possible.
The functionality is intended to measure the incremental distance relative to a Cartesian reference frame that exists in all of my start models (a default CSYS). So this sequence configures the measure tool to measure with a projection reference of CS0 so you will get the delta X,Y,Z reported directly in the measure results.
Caveats:
1) You must have a CSYS in your model with the tag (name) "CS0", that is a zero and not "o". This exists in all of my start parts so if you don't have this in your model it will not work. If your default csys has a different tag then replace CS0 with the appropriate tag for use in your environment.
2) You will need to copy all of these mapkeys into a config file that gets loaded and insure the mnemonics do not conflict with any of your existing mapkeys. The attached imdi mapkey.txt file contains the mapkeys needed to execute this command sequence.
3) My testing has been limited and the automated selection of CS0 explicitly seems to be the weak link in terms of reliability. I have nested the mapkeys for debugging and have asked PTC support for about the 7th year in a row for some documentation on trail file syntax to help me decipher command handling but they will not share anything to date and have been towing the line that trail files are for PTC development use and are not for end users.
You will be able to launch it using "imdi" within Creo 2 once loaded.
The results box should report the deltas as shown here when using this command.
