topic Re: Drawing table listing dimensions and its tolerances in 3D Part & Assembly Design

Drawing table listing dimensions and its tolerances

MatthewV — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:35:17 GMT

Hello !

I am using Creo 7.0.7.0

I am looking for a way to add a drawing table with specific dimensions for which we request inspection. I have manually made this table :

I am looking for a way to automatically fill this table : the idea would be to refer the dimensions that need to be inspected somewere and that it fills the table and extract the minimum tolerance and maximum tolerance. Also it would be great if this table would update as the dimension or tolerances are updated.

Is there a way to do that with Creo maybe with a drawing table, parameters and a repeat region ?

Re: Drawing table listing dimensions and its tolerances

Chris3 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:48:31 GMT

The only way to do this that I am aware of is a round about away. You can copy the tolerance into a parameter and then show that parameter on the drawing:

Re: Drawing table listing dimensions and its tolerances

Chris3 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:54:21 GMT

This article says it isn't possible in a repeat region: CS98437

The idea for this has been archived (meaning it won't be implemented)

Re: Drawing table listing dimensions and its tolerances

BenLoosli — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:40:57 GMT

This is one area where the parametric design of Creo is a hinderance.

When we used Unigraphics, we had a GRIP program that would gather all dimensions on a drawing and build a table showing the metric value with the converted english value. This was to allow the machine shop to use their existing measuring tools while engineering designed everything in metric. When we switched to Wildfire, we tried something similar, but when we grabbed a dimension for the table, it would give us the symbolic name and then error with a message that a dimension may not be used twice in the same drawing.

Re: Drawing table listing dimensions and its tolerances

MartinHanak — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:10:24 GMT

Hi,

I guess the only way is developing Toolkit application.

Re: Drawing table listing dimensions and its tolerances

MatthewV — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:11:05 GMT

I saw that there is an option to mark dimensions for inspection (checkbox in display field of a dimension) is there a way maybe to use this to create this table ?

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Re: Drawing table listing dimensions and its tolerances

StephenW — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:51:31 GMT

This post listed several 3rd party applications that will do that for you.

https://community.ptc.com/t5/3D-Part-Assembly-Design/SO-When-is-PTC-adding-inspection-numbers-Here-Lie-my-failures/m-p/752814#M121136

This question comes up on occasion. Seems there has been no progress on getting this functionality out of the box.

Re: Drawing table listing dimensions and its tolerances

TM_12049239 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:22:14 GMT

How is it still possible for this to not be a feature just define the part with a bounding box and export the times as internal parameters that can be references does PTC get a kick back from toolkit sellers or something that stops then from excluding basic features compared to it competitors?

Re: Drawing table listing dimensions and its tolerances

TM_12049239 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:24:55 GMT

seen posts about this going 20 years in like 15 mins of searching like surely there away to create a bounding box and export those Dims as parameters like every other cad software I've used.