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• Welcome
• Modeling overview
• What's New in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express
• Quick Reference Card
•  Getting started
  • The Modeling User Interface
  • Browser icons
  • Keyboard and mouse shortcuts
  • Orientation and rotation in 3D
  • Using mathematical expressions
  • Using the input line
  • Global and local coordinates
  • Customize the interface
  • Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
  • Customizing the Command Mini Toolbar
•  Save and load files
  • File types overview
  • Load or import files
  • Save or export files
  • Configure project folders
  • Unicode in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
  •  Working with other CAD systems
    • Data accuracy
    •  IGES
      • IGES import entity conversion
•  The work area (user interface)
  • Mini Toolbars
  • Available Shortcuts browser
  • Using CoPilots
  • Axis 3D CoPilot
  • Direction 3D CoPilot
  • Direction 3D CoPilot quick reference guide
  • Vector 3D CoPilot
  • Point 3D CoPilot
  • 2D CoPilot overview
  • 2D CoPilot features
  • 3D CoPilot
  • 3D CoPilot features
  • Preselection Mode
  • Using the Command Mini Toolbar (CMT)
  • Probe for 3D elements and 3D objects
  •  Viewports
    • Working with viewports
    • Print a viewport
    • Modifying the view using the mouse
    • Display objects using Show
    • Change viewport properties
    •  Viewport lights
      • Lights overview
      • The light types
      • Dynamically change the active viewport light
    •  Viewing
      • Refining the view
      • Perspective viewing
      • Visualizing interference
      • View by clipping plane
      • View by face
    •  Clipping planes
      • Clipping planes
      • Define clipping features
      • Working with clipping features
      • Working with clip lines
      • Set camera clipping planes
    •  Drawlist
      • Working with a viewport's drawing list
      • Show objects in a viewport's drawing list
      • Show single objects in a viewport's drawing list
      • Clear a viewport's drawing list
      • Display a viewport's drawing list
      • Hide objects in a viewport's drawing list
      • Copy a viewport's drawing list
      • Lock a viewport's drawing list
    •  Enhanced Realism
      • Display objects with shadows and mirror
  •  Workplanes
    • Workplanes overview
    • Workplanes in the design process
    • Workplane settings
    • Workplane properties
    • Create a new workplane
    • Set the active workplane
    • Copy a workplane
    • Share or unshare a workplane
    • Recall the last workplane
    • Position a workplane
    • Add or position a workplane image
    • Remove a workplane image
    • Change a workplane's geometric resolution
    • Change a workplane's origin
    •  Workplane sets
      • Create a workplane set
      • Recall the last workplane set
      • Change the owner of a workplane set
      • Unshare a workplane set
      • Position a workplane set
      • Move a workplane from one workplane set to another
      • Copy a workplane set
  •  Selection tools
    • Using the Select tool
    • Using the Select Mini Toolbar (SMT)
    • Select 2D elements
    • Select 3D objects
    • Select 3D elements
    • Select 3D elements using Geometry Rules
    • Select a feature
    • Select 3D Annotation types
    • Using selection lists
    • Selection cursors
    • Select labels
  •  Structure Browser
    • Using the Structure Browser
    • Search and filter items
    • Browser keyboard and mouse shortcuts
    • Detailed lists in the browser
    • Change the Structure Browser display
  •  Catch and catch modes
    • Catching and catch modes
    • Catch to elements
    • Catch settings
    • Set a default catch or one-catch-only mode
  •  Color controls
    • Using the color selector
  •  Settings
    • Change Modeling settings
    • Change 3D object settings
    • Change UI settings
    • Change 2D CoPilot settings
    • Change 3D CoPilot settings
    • Color settings
    •  Change Viewport settings
      • Change viewport settings
      • Setting the selection and fly-by options
•  Create and modify 3D models
  • Delete 2D and 3D objects
  •  Create 2D geometry
    • 2D geometry overview
    • Using the 2D CoPilot Option Mini Toolbar
    • Draw construction lines
    • 2D guides or construction lines
    • Draw a rectangle
    • Create a Slot
    • Draw a line or an arc
    • Draw a circle
    • Draw a polygon
    • Draw a star
    • Set a mirror for 2D geometrical elements
    • Draw an element relative to up to two elements
    • Draw an ellipse
    • Use projection from 3D or 2D geometry to create 2D geometry
    • Create a 2D functional curve
    • Example: Functional curves
    • Draw a conical curve
    • Create profiles from 3D geometry
    • Creating valid profiles
    • Create, change, or remove a fillet
    • Create geometry text
    • Create an equidistant profile
    • Create a 2D pattern
    • Set 2D Edge properties
    • Draw construction circles
    •  Create and modify spline curves
      • Create a 2D spline
      • Change a point on a spline
      • Display or hide spline interpolation points
    •  Change 2D geometry
      • Move 2D geometry
      • Rotate 2D geometry
      • Overdraw 2D geometry
      • Merge 2D geometry
      • Split 2D geometry
      • Stretch 2D geometry
      • Change the radius of a circle or an arc
      • Modify 2D geometry using dimensions (3D annotations)
      • Change the radius of a circle
      • Scale 2D geometry
      • Trim 2D geometry
      • Untrim 2D geometry
      • Mirror 2D geometry
      • Convert 2D geometry
  •  Make a 3D model
    • Machining overview
    • Geometric resolutions
    • Dragging methods
    • Profile handling
    • Realistic feedback
    • Pull a part (Pull Linear)
    • Pull a part (Pull Angular)
    • Pull edges
    • Reflect a part
    • Shell a part or a face
    • Punch or Stamp a part
    •  Part operations
      • Unite parts
      • Subtract parts
      • Intersect parts
      • Section a part
    •  Imprint edges onto a part
      • Imprint edges
    •  Examples
      • Example: Pulling a profile (Profile Handling)
      • Example: Pulling a face by Dimension
      • Example: Pulling a profile to a part
      • Example: Pulling a profile to a plane
      • Example: Pulling a profile about an edge (add material)
      • Example: Pulling several parts simultaneously (remove material)
      • Example: Pulling to a part (remove material)
      • Example: Pulling a profile to a point (remove material)
      • Example: Pulling a profile to a face (remove material)
      • Example: Punching several parts
      • Example: Stamping several parts
      • Example: Pulling several parts about an axis (remove material)
      • Example: Shelling two faces on a part
      • Example: Sectioning one part into three parts with a profile
      • Example: Sectioning a part with a face part
      • Example: Sectioning a part using faces
      • Example: Uniting three parts
      • Example: Subtracting two parts from a third part
      • Example: Intersecting two parts
      • Example: Imprinting a profile
      • Example: Imprinting intersection lines
      • Example: Imprinting a line
      • Example: Imprinting a silhouette
  •  Modify 3D geometry
    • Modify 3D geometry overview
    • Recognized features
    • Tangencies
    • Keep tangency support in Modify 3D commands
    • Change the radius of a face or an edge
    • Split an edge and introduce a vertex
    • Set 3D Edge properties
    •  Copy, cut, and paste
      • Copy a face or recognized feature
      • Cut a face or recognized feature
      • Paste a face or recognized feature
    •  Move faces or features
      • Move a face or recognized feature
      • Move a face relative to another face or feature
      • Move a face using dimensions
      • Stretch a face or an edge
      • Align faces
      • Pull a face or recognized feature
      • Offset a face or recognized feature
    •  Modify 3D geometry using dimensions
      • Create a dimension (3D annotation)
      • Modify 3D geometry using dimensions (3D annotations)
      • Adding faces to a move operation using linear dimensions
      • Symmetrically moving two opposite faces using linear dimensions
      • Adding faces to a symmetrical move operation using linear dimensions
    •  Change a part
      • Scale a part
      • Mirror a part
    •  Blend an edge
      • Blend an edge
      • Modify a blend
      • Remove a blend
    •  Chamfer an edge
      • Add a chamfer to an edge
      • Change a chamfer
      • Remove a chamfer
    • Recognize a blend or a chamfer
    • Taper a face or recognized feature (boss or pocket)
•  Modeling with advanced techniques
  •  Features
    • Custom process feature restrictions
    • User-defined features
    •  Named elements
      • Named elements
    •  Custom process features
      • Custom process labels
      • Create a custom process feature
      • Modify a custom process feature
      • Copy a custom process feature
      • Rename a custom process feature
      • Highlight a custom process feature
      • Show custom process features
      • Report custom process features
      • Attach custom process features to a model
      • Naming conventions for custom process features
      • Load custom process definitions from the web
      • Delete a custom process or face set feature
    •  Patterns
      • Patterns
      • Create a pattern of features or parts
      • Modify a pattern of features or parts
      • Follow and reset pattern offsets
      • Auto-validation of pattern offsets
      • Delete a pattern of features or parts
    •  Face set features
      • Face set features
      • Create a face set feature
      • Restore, redefine, or position a face set feature
      • Change the type of a face set feature
      • Validate a face set feature
  •  Surfacing tools
    •  Basic surfacing
      • Flip faces
      • Gather faces
      • Insert a face part
      • Reintersect faces
      • Delete a face
      • Trim a face
      • Untrim a face
    •  Creo Elements/Direct Surfacing module
      • Thicken a face part
    •  Analyze a surface
      • Show gaps between faces
    • Multiview
  •  Freeform parts
    •  Lofting
      • Create a profile matchline
      • Change a loft
      • Loft a profile with a tangency condition
      • Loft a part with a tangency condition
      • Loft a profile
      • Loft between parts or a part and workplane set
      • Remove material by lofting
      • Freeform surface enlargement
    • Create a pipe from 2D or 3D connected edges (curves)
    • Sweep a part
    • Create a helix
    • The pitch of a helix
    • Create a rib using 2D edges
    •  Examples
      • Example: Creating a profile loft
      • Example: Creating a profile loft with a smooth surface
      • Example: Lofting between one part and a workplane set
      • Example: Lofting between two parts and a workplane set
      • Example: Lofting from part to part
      • Example: Removing material by lofting
      • Example: Creating a new part by sweeping
      • Example: Creating a new part by adding a helix
      • Example: Removing helical volume from an existing part
  •  3D curves
    • 3D Curves overview
    • Change 3D Curve or Surfacing settings
    • Change a 3D spline curve
    • Change the radius of a 3D circle or arc
    • Move a 3D curve
    • Create a 3D curve from intersecting faces
    • Convert existing geometry into a 3D curve
    • Gather existing geometry to create a 3D curve
    • Create a bridge curve between 3D curves
    • Create a 3D curve from a 2D curve
    • Offset geometry to create a 3D curve
    • Create a 3D conical curve
    • Untrim 3D curves
    • Create a wire mesh of 3D curves
    • Wrap on surface
    • Adjust 3D curves
    • Analyze a curve
    • Create a 3D circle or arc
    • Curve connect condition
    • Delete 3D curves
    • Create a 3D fillet curve
    • Identify points when creating 3D curves
    • Create a 3D straight line
    • Create a 3D spiral
    • Create a 3D spline curve
    • Create a 3D curve on a surface
    • Tangential or curvature continuous condition
    • Create a vertex in 3D space
    • Create a 3D parametric curve
    • Example: Parametric curves
    • Create a variable pitch helix
    • Fix Points
•  Organize parts and assemblies
  • Create a new part, assembly, or container
  • Delete a part, assembly, or container
  • Setting the active part
  • Change an element name
  • Change the owner of parts and assemblies
  • Rearrange an assembly structure
  •  Copy or share parts and assemblies
    • Copy a part or assembly
    • Share a part or assembly
    • Unshare a part or assembly
    • About selective instances
    • Create a selective instance
    • Reshare a selective instance
    • Remove an obsolete selective instance
  •  Change part properties, settings, and appearance
    • Set part properties
    • Set face properties
    • Change assembly settings
    • Change part settings
    • Copy a property from one part to another part
    • To change a part's facet accuracy
    • To change a face's facet accuracy
  •  Move parts and assemblies
    • Position a part, assembly, or workplane set
    • Position parts using dimensions
    • Mate or align parts and assemblies
    •  Examples
      • Example: Positioning a part by aligning axes
      • Example: Positioning a part by making two faces parallel
      • Example: Positioning a part by mating faces
      • Example: Positioning a part by aligning faces
      • Example: Positioning a part by matching points
      • Example: Positioning a part by two points and a direction
  •  Move objects with a configuration
    • Configurations overview
    • Create a configuration
    • Explode an assembly
    • Move objects in a configuration
    • Copy or merge a configuration
    • Modify a configuration
    • Activate or deactivate a configuration
    • Edit Camera
    • Change the environment
    • Convert a formation
    • Highlight objects in a configuration
    • Share a configuration into a container
    • Hold a part in a configuration
    • Add data from one object to other objects in a configuration
    • Remove data from a configuration
    • Delete a configuration
    • Change Configuration settings
    • Capture a camera or drawlist in a configuration
  •  Set part and assembly coordinates
    • Create a coordinate system
    • Position a coordinate system
    • Rename a coordinate system
    • Coordinate System Properties
    • Customize axis labels
•  Analyze a design
  •  Part analysis
    • To do a draft analysis
    • Visualize parts that clash
    • To determine the clearance distance between two parts
  •  Measure
    • Using the calculator
    • Measure overview
    • To use fly-by measure
    • To measure a 2D point
    • To measure a 3D point
    • To measure a maximum point
    • Measure 3D vectors
    • To measure distances
    • To measure the perimeter of a face
    • To measure radii
    • To measure the diameter of a circular object
    • Measure 3D directions
    • Measure 3D axes
    • To measure an angle
    • To measure a chamfered edge
    •  Properties
      • To measure area
      • To measure properties of parts and assemblies
      • To measure a face
  •  Clash analysis
    • Clash analysis overview
    • Create a clash analysis
    • Calculate a clash analysis
    • Copy a clash analysis
    • View clash analysis properties
    • Change clash analysis parameters
    • Edit clash issue results
•  Adjust system settings
  • Change system settings
  • Save your environment settings
• Glossary
•  Create drawings from models (Creo Elements/Direct Annotation)
  • Overview
  •  Turn 3D models into 2D drawings
    • Start Creo Elements/Direct Annotation
    •  Create a drawing
      • Create a drawing
      • Drawing-model association
      • Create a drawing with new views
      • Create a drawing without a 3D model
      • Create a drawing from a drawing template
    •  Create views
      • Views overview
      • Create a view
      • Create a standard view
      • Create an isometric view
      • Create a general view
      • Create and modify a broken view
      • Create a section view
      • Create color-shaded section views for individual parts
      • Create a detail view
      • Draw detail borders
      • Create a dependent general view
      • Set view profiles
    •  Update a view
      • Update a view
      • Update modes
    • Lock Views
  •  Save and load drawings
    • Types of Creo Elements/Direct Annotation files
    • Load or import files (Creo Elements/Direct Annotation)
    • Save or export files
  •  Modify views
    • Modify views
    • Move a view
    • Copy a view
    • Change properties of an existing view
    • Show view contents
    •  Change the contents of views
      • Change the contents of views overview
      • Create/Reset a partial view
      • Create a cutaway
      • Modify detail and cutaway border
      •  Modify section views
        • Modify section views overview
        • Modify section lines
        • Secure parts or workplanes from sectioning
        • Extend section lines
      • Manage parts or workplanes in views
  •  Modify drawings
    • What is the Template Browser?
    •  Add and change text
      • Create text
      • Add special characters to text
      • Edit text
      • Move text
      • Modify text attributes
      • Create text references
      • Move reference lines
      • Modify reference line attributes
      • Load fonts
      • Delete fonts
    •  Add and modify symbols
      • Symbols overview
      • Create a symbol
      • Modify symbol properties
      • Change symbol parameters
      • Modify the coordinate system symbol
      • Create reference lines from text and symbols
      • Move symbols
    •  Add and modify hatching
      • Hatching overview
      • Create manual hatching by polygonal boundaries
      • Create manual hatching by specifying a face
      • Change a hatch pattern
      • Define hatch sub-patterns
      • Modify hatch attributes
      • Automatic hatch hole insertion
    •  Add and modify sketches
      • Sketches Overview
      • Create a sketch
      • Load a sketch
      • Move a sketch and change the owner
      • Delete a sketch
      • Sketch properties overview
      • Rename a sketch
      • Resize a sketch
      • Rotate a sketch
    •  Add and modify OLEs
      • Work with OLE objects
    •  Add and modify pictures
      • Work with pictures
    •  Add and modify dimensions
      •  Dimensioning fundamentals
        • What is Dimensioning?
        • Dimension text attributes
        • Dimension geometry attributes
        • Dimension types
      •  Create dimensions
        • Create a dimension
        • Coordinate dimensioning with an external base point
        • Example: Create coordinate datum dimensioning
      •  Create dimension Fixes and tolerances
        • Fixes and tolerances overview
        • Add a fix text
        • Add a tolerance
      • Move a dimension
      • Orient dimensions
      • Projected dimension reference points
      •  Modify dimensions
        • Modify dimension properties
        • Modify dimension text
        • Modify dimension lines
        • Modify dimension arrows and lines
        • Modify a dimension vertex
        • Convert thread dimensions
        • Extend an external base point
        • Edit chained dimensions
    •  Add and modify BOM information
      • BOM overview
      • Transfer BOM information from 3D
      • Scan an assembly for BOM information
      • Draw a BOM table
      • Create position flags
      • Move BOM flags
      • Update BOM table entries
      • Generate reference numbers
      • Change flag numbers
    •  Add and modify geometry
      • Geometry overview
      • Draw straight geometry
      • Draw curved geometry
      • Draw an ellipse
      • Draw a point
      • Draw spline geometry
      • Draw construction geometry
      • Draw equidistant geometry
      • Draw fillet geometry
      • Modify geometry
      • Change geometry attributes
      • Change geometry properties with preselection
      •  Auxiliary geometry
        • Add center lines and symmetry lines
        • Modify center lines and symmetry lines
        • Change center line and symmetry line parameters
        • Draw and modify bolt circles
    •  Modify sheets
      • Modify sheets overview
      • Set the active sheet
      • Create additional sheets
      • Copying sheets
      • Reposition sheets
      • Renumber sheets
      • Change the default sheet scale
      • Delete sheets
    •  Modify frames
      • Modify frames overview
      • Change the frame type
      • Rename frames
    •  Modify drawings
      • Renumber a drawing
      • Transfer a drawing to a different part
      • Delete a drawing
      • Delete a drawing and associated 3D data
    •  Manipulate drawing elements
      • Hide elements
      • Unhide elements
      • Delete elements
      • Move, gather, and copy elements
  •  Print drawings
    • Print overview
    • Print a drawing
    • True color printing
  •  Creo Elements/Direct Annotation tools
    • Structure, drawing and template browsers
    • Creo Elements/Direct Annotation show menu
    • Redraw Options
    • The 3D viewport
    • Searching for Text and Dimensions in the Viewport
    • Catch tool
    • Apply a grid
    •  Measure tool
      • Measure
      • Example: Rotate a view using Measure
      • Finding a point's coordinates
      • Set the measure context
      • Measure an angle between two drawing elements
      • Measure the length of an edge or curve
      • Measure the radius of a circle or arc
      • Measure the distance between two points
      • Measure the horizontal distance between two points
      • Measure the vertical distance between two points
    • Box-select elements
    •  Ownership
      • The owner of drawing elements
      • Highlight owners
  •  Configure Creo Elements/Direct Annotation
    •  Change Creo Elements/Direct Annotation settings
      • The default settings browser
      • Change default settings
      • Create a style
      • Create or change a style reference
    •  Creo Elements/Direct Annotation default settings
      • Set the default drawing/view settings
      • View settings
      • Set text attributes
      • Set default symbol parameters
      • Set reference line attributes
      • Bill of Materials settings
      • Set geometry attributes
      • Set auxiliary geometry settings
      • Set the default hatch pattern
      • Define hatch mode for automatic hatching
      • Plot settings
      • Define pen transformations
      • Set unhide settings
      • Set viewport appearance
      • Define color conversion settings
      • Set copilot settings
      • Set file behavior
      •  Set dimensioning defaults
        • Dimensioning defaults overview
        • Set dimension arrow attributes
        • Set dimension line attributes
        • Set the dimension text style
        • Set automatic placement parameters
        • Dimension Catch & Check settings
        • Dimension specific settings
        • Predefined dimension tolerances
        • Define thread dimension formats
        • Set the attributes of projected reference points
        • Dimension default style behavior
    •  Create templates and styles
      • Define a drawing template
      • Define a symbol template
      • Define (save) a sketch
      • Define a text template
      • Configure frames
      • Configure a BOM layout
      • Configure a position flag layout
  •  Advanced topics
    •  View sets
      • What are view sets?
    •  Creo Elements/Direct Annotation migration tools
      • Creo Elements/Direct Annotation Migration Tools
      • Attach views
      • Attach views by name
      • Detach views
      • Convert a frame to a sketch
      • Convert a view to a sketch
      • Convert a sketch to a frame
      • Copy a view set to another part or assembly
    •  The am_customize file
      • Configure Annotation: Overview
      • Configure the defaults file
      • Set the default Creo Elements/Direct Modeling viewport
      • Set Delete and Undelete behavior
      • Load or remove a symbol registration
    •  Customization for advanced users
      • Creo Elements/Direct Annotation customization for advanced users
      • BOM functions
      • Dimensioning functions
      • Export 2D functions
      • Sheet Frame functions
      • Geometry functions
      • Other functions
      • Owner functions
      • Sketch functions
      • Symbol functions
      • Text functions
      • View functions
      • View Set functions
  • 64-bit support
  • The fix text and tolerance values tables
  • Predefined dimension fixes
  • Bundles
  • Drawings
  • Frames
  • Text files
  • Fix text tables
  • Tolerance values tables
  • Work with groups
  • Settings values determination
  • Automatic dimension direction settings
  • Broken view settings
  • View update calculation mode setting
  • Cutaway view settings
  • Detail view settings
  • Dimension auto placement strategy settings
  • Dimension settings
  • Other drawing settings
  • Face part handling
  • Format style settings
  • Hatch style settings
  • Isometric style settings
  • Isometric view settings
  • Label/text style settings
  • Line style settings
  • Partial view settings
  • Base Colors
  • Pens style settings
  • Plot line pattern length style setting
  • Position on page style settings
  • Printer style settings
  • Settings proposals
  • Label includes scale setting
  • Section mode in dependent views
  • Section view settings
  • Size style settings
  • View appearance settings
  • Contents of label views
  • Other view settings
  • Standard view settings
  • View update settings
  • Change the view positioning strategy
  • Draw section lines
  • Normal, hidden, and tangent lines
  • Hidden lines calculation
  • Set the thread appearance
  • Scale a view
  • Delete a view
  • Change part or workplane colors in views
  • Fly-by highlighting
  • Creo Elements/Direct Annotation copilot
•  Reference Topics
  • Move annotations
  • Change the orientation of annotations
  • Delete annotations
  • Change annotation reference attach points
  • Change 3D Documentation settings
  • Creating colors
  • Copying colors
  • Deleting colors
  • Editing colors
  • Renaming colors
  • Clear clash analysis issues
  • Setting colors
  • Setting default file name suffixes
  • Creating color palettes
  • Deleting color palettes
  • Renaming color palettes
  • Saving your environment settings
  • Saving and loading session files
  • Working with defined features and named elements
  • Create and modify part group features
  • Review custom process features in the browser
  • 3D Data files
  • Load options
  • IGES load options
  • STEP load options
  • Start a new session
  • STL save options
  • Example import log file
  • Lofted freeform parts
  • Control the shape of loft surfaces by smoothing
  • Control the shape of loft surfaces using tangents
  • Advanced skills
  • Check a part for problems
  • Standard Windows Techniques
  • Mark press-fit parts
  • Optimizing system performance
  • Projecting geometry coordinates
  • The worksphere
  • Specifying user coordinates
  • The Toolbox
  • Filter a table column
  • Specify an axis of rotation
  • Example: Pulling a profile to a face (remove material)
  • General Customization Concepts Guide
  • Minimum Edge Length
  • Control points
  • Void Shells
  • Knife-edges
  • Non-manifold Parts
  • Lightweight models
  • Undo and Redo
  • Advanced taper tips
  • Align faces tips
  • Align with opposing face normals
  • Recognize a blend
  • Modifying Blends: Handling and Restrictions
  • Blend tips and advanced techniques
  • Types of blended edges
  • Recognize a blend or a chamfer
  • Remove recognition of a blend or a chamfer
  • Merge faces or edges
  • Move parts by box
  • Move faces tips
  • Offset faces tips
  • Taper faces tips
  • Taper with Adjust Blends
  • Taper a face with advanced taper
  • Offset multiple axial surfaces
  • Move groups of faces radially
  • Positioning options for create, copy, and share
  • Copy or share a part or assembly in a linear direction
  • Copy or share a part or assembly about an axis
  • Tips and advanced techniques: Position a part directly in the viewport
  • About part properties and settings
  • Copy the mixed display mode from one part to another
  • Valid part names
  • Dynamic dragging
  • Visualizing parts that clash
  • Example: Identifying the interference with three clashing parts
  • Untouchable flags
  • Recursive selective instancing
  • Open references
  • About parts and assemblies
  • Performing a draft analysis
  • Working with containers
  • About shared parts and assemblies
  • Copying parts and assemblies
  • Modifying an assembly structure
  • Notes and restrictions about selective instances
  • Building an assembly structure
  • Open references
  • Set selective instance master for a view set
  • Compare parts
  • View part comparison results
  • Integrate imported models into Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
  • Parts and assemblies overview
  • Selecting geometry
  • Focusing the catch mode
  • Select modes
  • Example: Selecting 2D elements
  • Guided loft continuity option
  • Surfacing
  • Analyzing surface quality
  • Limitations on surface analysis
  • Example: Create a guided loft with birail curves
  • Example: Create a guided loft using multiple profiles
  • Example: Create a guided loft with orientation options
  • Example: Create a guided loft with unidirectional scaling
  • Example: Create a guided loft with interpolated spine
  • Example: Create a guided loft with offset scaling
  • Example: Create a guided loft using non-planar profiles
  • Example: Create a guided loft with bidirectional scaling
  • Example: Create a guided loft with matchlines
  • Example: Guided loft by splitting surfaces
  • Example: Create a guided loft with angular variation
  • Example: Create a guided loft with scalar variation
  • Example: Create a guided loft with blending options
  • Example: Integration of a guided loft surface to existing face
  • Example: Create a guided loft using a single profile
  • Change the background of a viewport
  • Displaying multiple viewports
  • Dynamically manipulate the contents of a viewport
  • Freeze the view in a viewport
  • Move objects in a viewport with the keyboard
  • Move objects in a viewport with the dialog
  • Move objects in a viewport with a Spaceball
  • Move objects in a viewport with a SpaceMouse
  • Move objects in a viewport with the toolbar
  • Limitations on high resolution printing
  • To redraw the contents of all viewports
  • The color systems
  • The show modes
  • Create inclined copied or shared workplanes
  • Create parallel copied or shared workplanes
  • Partial copy
  • Controlling command button properties
  • Change clash analysis settings
  • Change contour map settings
  • Change graphics settings
  • Initial configuration
  • Change Structure Browser settings
  • What's New in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
  • What’s New in Creo Elements/Direct Annotation
  • List of supported drill feature types
  • Example: Drawing a rectangle using a line between two points as a reference
  • Example: Move a face using a line between two points
•  QuickStart Projects
  • Quickstart Projects
  • Create an interlocking block
  • Modify an interlocking block
  • Create and modify a tangent model
  • Position parts
  • Reorganize an assembly
  • Repurpose a model to create a new product
  • Create a 2D drawing from a model
  • Create a 3D model from an imported drawing
  • Create an exploded view