topic Re: Drawings text style in Creo View in Windchill

Drawings text style in Creo View

tleati — Wed, 02 May 2018 12:11:52 GMT

Hello,I have noticed a difference in the syle of texts between drawings opened in Creo Parametric and drawings opened in Creo View. Here below an example comparison:the first is opened in Parametric, the second in View. The fact is that as you see, apart from the color, the text style

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

MartinHanak — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:59:01 GMT

Tomasso,

just one comment ... the second picture shows plot file (maybe it is generated as drawing viewable in Windchill PDMLink), not drw file.

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

tleati — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:15:11 GMT

Hi Martin,

yes I know, it is opened from Windchill as .plt and in fact this can be the point...maybe there is also a way to force View to open .drw in other better formats or, force Windchill to feed View with the proper file type (I don't know which one does the work, If I was sure it is Windchill's I would have posted the discussion it in the Windchill session).

thanks

bye

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

MartinHanak — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:19:36 GMT

Tomasso,

I think you have to discuss your problem with your Windchill Administrator.

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

tleati — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:52:19 GMT

Is it possible to move the post to the Windchill section?

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

MartinHanak — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:28:22 GMT

Moving the discussion is task for Ryan Kelley ???

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

tleati — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:42:58 GMT

I have just opened a post in WC section relating to the same problem but with another approach....so no need for the moment! (hoping it will be solved .)

thanks

bye

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

ryankelley — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:52:53 GMT

As Martin Hanak‌ suggested, I've moved this discussion into our PTC Windchill‌ product community.

Tommaso Leati‌ - we typically try not to create duplicate discussions, as the Community Manager I'm here to help keep things organized and move threads whenever necessary. Just @ mention me like Martin did above and I'd be happy to help. Best of luck on getting an answer to this question.

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

BenLoosli — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:56:28 GMT

Check the settings on your CAD worker machine. They may have a different setting that is changing what is generated when the document is being published.

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

StephenW — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:01:34 GMT

Is this a "stroke all fonts" issue as far as text output style?

Hopefully just a side note but I would be way more concerned with the tolerance difference in the Ø80 dimension.

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

tleati — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:06:05 GMT

Hi Ben,

thanks for your reply, could you be more specific about the settings you mentioned (where can I find them?). The maybe something that can solve the problem.

bye

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

tleati — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:15:52 GMT

Hi Stephen,

what are you relating to with the "stroke all fonts" and how can I fix it?

I thank you for your help on the tolerance too, indeed it is an internal technical choice (and that range has not been chosen by me and I also think it is too strict by the way).

bye bye

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

tleati — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:18:37 GMT

Thank you Ryan for moving the discussion, indeed I had created another post in WC session reformulated in a better way, with the intention to remove this one before Martin kindly asked for your help.

bye bye

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

BenLoosli — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:24:13 GMT

Check your config.pro and drawing.dtl files.

When I set up a CAD worker, I copy those files from my a machine I know that creates a good plot/PDF file.

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

StephenW — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:27:02 GMT

Stroke all fonts is a printer configuration setting that converts text to "lines" (for lack of a better word). In my opinion it provides a more consistent output with respect to what is displayed on-screen. I usually add it to the printer configuration file (.pcf). I'm not sure how that works with Creo view and windchill but if you are manually creating your .plt files, I believe this will improve your consistency.

On the side note of the tolerance, I was referring to the fact that the tolerance was different from your Creo drawing to your .plt output...+.06/+.01 versus +.01. It may be just a simple screen grab at different times in the design/drafting process.

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

tleati — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:26:10 GMT

Hi Stephen,

thanks for your advise, indeed I didn't know it and the fact is that in Parametric the drawing is ok graphically, maybe it is just Windchill .plt conversion that messes up fonts. In fact if I "save a copy" the drw to pvz in Parametric and then open it in View, the drawing is ok, just like as viewed in Parametric.

And I can't even suppose WC uses Parametric to create the .plt to then give to View, as .drws are openable from WC also when Parametric is closed.

Regarding the tolerance, I didn't notice they were different! And this is not due to different times but to another problem of View, that is sometimes it grabs previous version of the same file (I don't know why), it has just happened yesterday with another document...

bye

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

tleati — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:28:56 GMT

Hi Ben,

the fact is that in Parametric the drawing is ok graphically, it is in Creo View opened from Windchill that the graphic changes.

bye

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

BenLoosli — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:51:47 GMT

Windchill does not retrieve the .drw file for Creo View, but uses a representation that is stored as Content with the drawing.

You have a CAD worker machine in your system that 'publishes' all drawings when they are checked in and that is what is stored as Content.

How you have the recipe file setup for publishing determines what output type is created. I output mine as PDF instead of plot files.

The settings on your CAD worker for Creo Parametric determine what the output will look like. The CAD worker will launch its own local copy of Creo Parametric to generate your output files.

If you are seeing a pvz file generated interactively that matches your on-screen image, then the Creo settings on the CAD worker are not the same as your computer.

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

LoriSood — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:12:59 GMT

Tommaso,

You may want to try opening the drawing in Creo on the worker to verify that it looks the same as it does on the system where you see the correct view. It's possible that Creo on the worker is using different pen table settings, for example, than what you have on your client machine. If so, this could cause a difference in the plt generated by the worker machine and viewed in Creo View vs. Creo Parametric on your client machine.

Re: Drawings text style in Creo View

tleati — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:30:01 GMT

Hi Ben,

thank you very much for your explanation, now seems to be clearer where the problem is and maybe the way to solve it. I had already read about that recipe file, I know that there is an editor and it would be a matter of edit it just like my computer settings. The editor I saw it is one of the Adapters and I fear not to have them in my license. I will check and then let you know.

By the way I found a useful guide on the net on recipe editor if may be of some interest:

http://www.vizpundit.com/2013/08/15/recipe-editor-lesson-1-understanding-the-interface/

bye