About Verifying Differences Between Drawings
You can verify the differences between two versions of a drawing. After you store a picture of the drawing, you can retrieve it as a layer over the drawing. Anything that is the same cancels out, leaving on the screen only the differences between the two.
To generate a report that lists the differences between two objects, click Layout tab and then click the arrow next to Insert group. Click Integrate.
After you have retrieved an integration project file and the difference report, source object, and target object are displayed, the INTEGRATE menu appears, listing commands for performing the integration:
• Next—Move to the next item (difference) in the report.
• Previous—Move to the previous item (difference) in the report.
• Show—In the active window, highlight the entity (feature, component, and so forth) corresponding to the current item in the difference report. (This command is accessible only if the current item belongs to the object in the current Creo Parametric Window.)
• Info—Open the INFORMATION WINDOW, which contains information about the current item in the difference report (model name, component number, internal ID number, part name, and parents and or children).
• Action—Open the ACTION menu. When you specify an action for one occurrence of an item (feature, component, and so forth) in the report, the specified action is set automatically for that item every time it appears in the report.
The ACTION menu contains the following commands:
◦ Take From Source—Mark this source item to be merged automatically into the target.
◦ To Delete—Mark this item for automatic deletion from the target.
◦ To Ignore—Ignore this item (that is, take no merge or delete action on it even though a difference is noted).
◦ Clear—Clear all pending actions or instructions to ignore an item.
◦ Do Manual—Integrate the item manually. This involves copying the item manually from the source object to the target object.
◦ Merged—Mark an item as "Merged" after it has been merged manually.
◦ Deleted—Mark an item as "Deleted" after it has been deleted manually.
◦ All Changes—Accept and integrate all changes to the source and target drawings.
◦ Source Changes—Accept and integrate the changes to the source drawing.
◦ Target Changes—Accept and integrate the changes to the target drawing.
◦ Unspecified—Allows the indicated action to be applied to all items that do not already have an action assigned to them.
◦ Overwrite—Allows you to assign an action to all items, even if actions have already been assigned to the items. The new action overwrites the existing action.
◦ Current Item—Allows you to apply an action to the current item.
◦ All Items—Allows you to apply an action to all items that can be acted on.
◦ By Type—Allows you to apply an action to items by type: DIM COSMETICS or PARAMETERS.
• Execute—Perform automatically the actions specified in the ACTION column of the difference report to resolve differences between the source and target objects. Each item is marked as Merged, Deleted, or Ignored according to the action that was specified for it.
• Save Report—Save the difference report in your local working area as an ASCII text file.
• Merge View—Display the difference report with the items sorted in the order in which they have to be integrated to correctly resolve all the external references (for example, parents must be merged before children and children must be deleted before parents).
• Diff View—(Default) Display the difference report sorted by object and, within object, by item type. This display gives a quick report of where and what the differences are.