topic Defining and Saving a Custom (Isometric) View in Creo Parametric 2.0 in 3D Part & Assembly Design

Defining and Saving a Custom (Isometric) View in Creo Parametric 2.0

nsrivastava — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:03:52 GMT

In this tutorial you will see how to utilize the View Manger Tool to save a custom view and to navigate precisely in the graphics window. Transcription of VideoClick the View Manager Tool to display its dialogue Box.At present Orient tab is active. From here different

Re: Defining and Saving a Custom (Isometric) View in Creo Parametric 2.0

TomD.inPDX — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 01:28:26 GMT

A true isometric view rotation about the horizontal is actually 35.2644 degrees. One cannot create that value in the orientation dialog. it is a real shame that we cannot simply dial in a -true- isometric.

Have a look at this document to see the Pro|Workaround required to get this right...

Setting up accurate isometric views

In short, you have to create a temp view from geometry and then create a new view from that state. I do this on the fly in parts and assemblies now. Once you define one -good- ISO view, you can achieve the other form the view manager dialog.

Re: Defining and Saving a Custom (Isometric) View in Creo Parametric 2.0

TomD.inPDX — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 03:15:18 GMT

Re: Defining and Saving a Custom (Isometric) View in Creo Parametric 2.0

nsrivastava — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:12:57 GMT

Thanks for comments. I was able to create a true isometric view with the help of orientation dialog box watch the following video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnWlfy-gyt4#t=4m01s

Re: Defining and Saving a Custom (Isometric) View in Creo Parametric 2.0

TomD.inPDX — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:49:36 GMT

This is still not a true ISO but close enough for most.

You can zoom in about 40x and you will clearly see the error by negating the 4th digit.

I find that using the quick geomtery method is easy enough to do on the fly. Subsequent ISO views can be created from the 1st so no problem -and- if you use templates, there is no excuse not to do it right. You just have to remember that you have to create the TMP view from the geometry and the saved ISO from the TMP view. Then you can delete the geometry and datums without errors.

This is your Pro|WorkAround lesson for today.

Seriously, I don't accept "almost right" as acceptable when it comes to teaching opportunies. Again, that's just me and how I was raised.

In this day of double precision databases, why would PTC not update a lot of these dialogs to at least single precision accuracy?

Re: Defining and Saving a Custom (Isometric) View in Creo Parametric 2.0

TomD.inPDX — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:24:47 GMT

I see your added comment on the "default" isometric. Since this is a blog to teach people, there is something that is important to know about setting the default view to isometric. Setting this will affect any view saved using the "default" setting as a reference. I learned back in Pro|E 2000i that this is a big mistake when someone opens the part and the default is set back to the installed default view.

Seriously... there are no shortcuts to -defining- an isometric view properly no matter how badly you want there to be.

Re: Defining and Saving a Custom (Isometric) View in Creo Parametric 2.0

nsrivastava — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:27:05 GMT

In this video, we will see how we can set a default model orientation in Creo. To do so visit to file then options then model display and then default model orientation. Then from there, we can change the default settings. #CreoParametric #Creo #Creotutorial

Re: Defining and Saving a Custom (Isometric) View in Creo Parametric 2.0

Space_Ghost — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:15:04 GMT

Is there a way to use this saved view in a drawing?

Re: Defining and Saving a Custom (Isometric) View in Creo Parametric 2.0

kdirth — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:14:43 GMT

In the view properties, selecting default orientation will orient the view to what you have set for default orientation in the configuration.