NC Sequence Rotation Pattern

[cvansickle]

Currently test driving Creo 3 M060 for an upgrade from Wildfire 4.  Having trouble figuring out how to properly create a rotation pattern of an NC sequence in Creo.

In Wildfire 4, I would pattern an NC sequence with the menu manager to rotate a sequence around an axis in two directions.  The sequence I am rotating is pointed at the axis I am rotating around. Here is the un-patterned sequence:

After specifying the angle between instances, I would make the following selections so that each patterned sequence would be pointed at the center axis.

Here is the resulting pattern. Notice each instance of the sequence is pointed directly at the center axis of the blurred part.

Now, I'm trying to do the same thing in Creo 3, but I don't seem to have access to the options I selected above when patterning the feature.  Keep in mind this sequence is in a UDF that I placed into both Creo and Wildfire. Here are the pattern options I select in Creo:

Here is the result in Creo. Notice the instances are not all pointed at the center axis.

I'm thinking I'm not able to set the options that I screen clipped from wildfire above. Can anyone help out here?

Thanks,

Corey

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[Mahesh_Sharma · Accepted solution]

Corey,

You may try Subroutine pattern. I hope this will help you.

http://help.ptc.com/creo_hc/creo30_pma_hc/usascii/index.html#page/pma/manufacturing/to_create_a_new_subroutine_pattern.h…

[cvansickle]

Thank you! This works, though it's not ideal. We have a library of models, some of which date back to the 90's. The older ones open with an old interface because the manufacturing information is in the work piece part rather than the assembly.  For those models, we'll have to pattern the NC sequence, and for the newer models, we'll have to use this Subroutine tool.  It gets frustrating when you have to make people know two ways to do the same thing, and have to figure out when to do which method.

edit: nevermind, I found the subroutine tool in the old style interface.  Thanks.