Creo Elements/Direct Modeling allows you to select default settings for the following commands:
• Machine
• Modify 3D
• 3D Curve and Surfacing
◦ Face Set Feature
The options you select in the General and Feedback settings are active for almost all Machine and Modify 3D commands. The options you select in the Machine settings are active whenever you use a Machine function which includes that option. You should set the defaults to the settings you normally use in most Machine operations. The options you select in the Blend / Chamfer and Misc Commands settings are active whenever you use these commands from the Modify 3D menu. You can always select different options when you use a Modify 3D command; set these defaults to the settings you normally use. The options in the Part/Assembly settings are persistent. The 3D Curve or Surface settings control the appearance and layout of the local coordinate system options and feedback options for 3D Curve and Surfacing operations.
To change the default Modeling settings,
1. Click File > Settings > Modeling. The Modeling Settings dialog box opens. The left pane of the Modeling Settings dialog box lists the categories of options and the right pane displays the options for each category.
2. Set the following default values in the General pane:
◦ Chk&Fix: Check for problems and fix them, when possible.
◦ Select a feature type in the Selection Method box to limit automatic feature selection to one type of recognized feature.
You can choose any of the following recognized feature types:
• Automatic (selects the boss/pocket, rib, or slot with the smallest number of faces)
• Boss/Pocket
• Rib
• Slot
• Boss
• Pocket
• Composite Boss
• Composite Pocket
▪ Highlight: A color used to highlight the feature.
◦ Set the following Tangency Control options:
▪ Keep Tangency: Maintain smooth tangential transitions between faces when you modify a part. Blended edges on neighboring faces are detected and recreated.
▪ Blend Auto: Automatically reconstructs adjacent blends after you modify the part.
▪ First Tang Neigh Faces: A color used to highlight the immediate (first) tangential neighboring faces.
▪ Tang Warn Faces: A color used to highlight the connected neighboring faces whose tangential transition cannot be maintained.
◦ Select Update Relations to update relations after the operation is complete.
▪ Match Line: A color used to highlight Match Line joining vertices of 2D profiles or parts during a Loft operation. For more information about loft matchline feedback, see
Matchlines for lofting.
3. Click Feedback and set the following default values:
◦ Transparency: See a semi-transparent preview of the operation in the viewport.
◦ Show Source Geometry: Display the original geometry for realistic feedback and highlight the original geometry for quick feedback during the modeling operation such as Move 3D.
◦ Realistic Feedback: Display a feedback that realistically changes as you drag the 3D CoPilot to perform an operation in the viewport.
◦ Show Colors: Display and highlight modified faces in the preview color during realistic feedback or quick feedback.
Creo Elements/Direct Modeling shows the material attributes from the rendering module realistically if Transparency and Show Colors are both cleared.
◦ Skip & Mark: Activate the generation of feedback labels on parts for which a multiple-part Modify 3D operation has produced a partial result failed. For more information, see
Modify 3D Partial Result and Error Feedback.
◦ Modify 3D Preview: A preview color used to highlight modified faces in Modify 3D and Surfacing commands.
◦ Selected Faces/Edges: A color used to highlight selected faces or edges during Modeling operations.
◦ Fixed Elements: A color used to highlight fixed elements.
◦ Direction/Axis: A color used to highlight Direction and Axis.
◦ Coordinate System: A color used to highlight coordinate system (3D Curve).
◦ Measure: A color used to show feedback for the measure result.
◦ Error Feedback: A color used to show error feedback.
4. Click Machine and set the following default values:
◦ Keep Workplane: Keep workplane(s) when the machining operation is complete. Otherwise, the workplanes used are deleted.
◦ Keep Profile: Keep profile(s) used in the machining operation. Otherwise, the profiles are deleted.
◦ Keep Tool: Keep the tool part used in the machining operation. Otherwise, the tool is deleted.
◦ Keep Core: Keep the core part created in a Shell operation.
◦ Add Material Color: A color used to highlight added material for machining commands in the Model group (on the Home tab), that are used to add material.
◦ Remove Material Color: A color used to highlight removed material for machining commands in the Model group (on the Home tab), that are used to remove material.
◦ Resolution Change: A color used to highlight a part (with the label of the part), whose resolution is to be changed.
◦ Tool Part: A color used to highlight a tool part.
5. Set the following Blend/Chamfer options:
◦ Chain Selection: Lets you select several tangentially connected edges with a single mouse click, instead of using multi-select. This option only works with constant radius blends.
◦ Show Affected Blends: Highlight blends that will be recalculated.
◦ Labels: Display labels in the viewport to help you identify faces or edges that will be changed. These labels do not remain after the operation is complete.
◦ Feedback: Provides a preview of the blend or chamfer operation.
◦ Dragging: Allows you to create a blend or chamfer by dragging an arrow in the viewport.
Set the following colors to highlight blended or chamfered faces created using Modify 3D commands:
◦ Preview Color: A color used to highlight blends during preview.
◦ Affected Color: A color used to highlight affected blends.
◦ Affected Stop Color: A color used to highlight the blend face where the blend affection stops.
◦ Not Affected Color: A color used to highlight blends that are not affected.
◦ Error Color: A color used to highlight faces and labels with errors.
◦ Active Color: A color used to highlight a label and a face for active blend operations.
◦ Current Label Color: A label color used to display the current radius at the current position. This color is used only in elements created or modified by the Var N command.
◦ Inactive Label Color: A label color used to highlight inactive or already completed blend operations.
6. Set the following Misc Commands options:
◦ Set the following Taper options:
▪ Absolute Angle: Calculates the new taper angle against the draft direction.
▪ Keep as Taper Feature: Creates a taper feature in the Structure Browser so you can activate and deactivate the taper, or quickly adjust the taper later.
▪ Constant Shape Color: A color used to highlight constant shape faces in an advanced taper.
◦ Set the following Move/Stretch options:
▪ Transform Objects: Sets the default value of the Transform Objects option in Move and Stretch command (Modify 3D commands).
▪ Part Color and Assembly Color: Colors used to highlight complete selected parts or assemblies in the Move and Stretch commands when the Transform Objects option is clicked.
◦ Set the following Pull/Remove options:
▪ Recognize Blends: Performs automatic blend recognition on all faces that are generated using the Pull, Punch, Stamp, and Section commands.
▪ Maximal Radius: Allows you to set a maximal radius for a blend to be automatically recognized.
◦ Set the following Offset options:
▪ Offset Selected Blends: Automatically changes the radii of selected blends.
▪ Align Reference Color: A color used to highlight the reference face in the Align command.
▪ Stretch Unfix Color: A color used to highlight elements that are not fixed in the Stretch command.
▪ Exclude Color: A color used to highlight elements or objects which are excluded from an operation.
7. Click Part/Assembly and set the following default values:
◦ Show Auxiliary Viewport: Displays the auxiliary view window.
8. Click Curve and set the following default values:
◦ Coordinate System Follow: The Point 3D CoPilot follows the 3D curve as it is created. This setting only affects the local coordinate system when you perform tasks in the 3D Curve on the 3D Geometry tab.
◦ Set the following Feedback settings:
▪ Curvature Feedback: Display curvature analysis feedback when you create or modify 2D or 3D curves.
▪ Point Color: A color used to highlight point feedback during curve creation and modification.
▪ Tangent Color: A color used to highlight tangent feedback during curve creation and modification.
▪ 2nd Derivative Color: A color used to highlight 2nd derivative feedback during curve creation and modification.
9. Click Surfacing and set the following default colors:
◦ Warning Issue Color: A color used to highlight different types of warning issues and their labels.
◦ Warning Info Color: A color used to highlight different types of warning information and labels.
◦ Input Information Color: A color used to highlight different types of input information.
◦ Curve Spine Color: A color used to highlight a spine curve.
◦ Curve Profile Color: A color used to highlight a profile curve.
◦ Curve Birail Color: A color used to highlight a birail curve.
◦ Curve Guide Color: A color used to highlight a guide curve.
10. Click Face Set Feature and set the following values:
◦ Blend Auto: Automatically reconstructs adjacent blends after you modify the part. If you select Modeling Default, Blend Auto is automatically set as defined in the General pane.
◦ Auto Detect transformation: Automatically detects transformations.
◦ Blend Invalidates: Specifies whether a blend invalidates a face set feature or not.
◦ Auto Propagate: Automatically propagates a modification of a face set feature to all other face set features in a pattern.
◦ Status: Specifies the type of the feature (Modify Invalid or Modify Valid), for which the orders of the options are modified.
◦ Initial Option: Specifies the initial option to modify a feature. For status Modify Invalid, you can choose Restore or Redefine. For status Modify Valid, you can choose Position or Redefine.
11. Click Reset to restore the settings of a single category, selected categories, or all categories of options to the Site, Corp, or Factory default settings. The Reset Modeling Settings dialog box opens. The current category is selected by default if you click Reset.
12. Close the dialog when you are finished. Changes are applied as you change settings.
Modeling. The Modeling Settings dialog box opens. The left pane of the Modeling Settings dialog box lists the categories of options and the right pane displays the options for each category.