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• Welcome
• Modeling overview
• What's New in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 20.2.4.0
• Quick Reference Card
•  Getting started
  • The Modeling User Interface
  • Customizing the Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Ribbon
  • Browser icons
  • Keyboard and mouse shortcuts
  • Orientation and rotation in 3D
  • Using mathematical expressions
  • Using the input line
  • Global and local coordinates
  • Using modules
  • 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
  • Granite save options
  • Neutral file save options
  • Granite import options
  • SolidWorks import options
  • UGS SolidEdge import options
  • Inventor import options
  • UGS NX import options
  • Configure project folders
  • Unicode in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
  •  Lightweight viewing formats
    • Lightweight viewing options
    • Export to Creo View MCAD
    • Save 2D and 3D objects as eDrawings files
    • Export an XVL file
    • Export to U3D and 3D PDF
  •  Working with other CAD systems
    • Working with other CAD systems
    • Data accuracy
    • Native format data healing
    • Entities and attributes supported for export
    • Entities and attributes supported for import
    • System files required for import and export
    •  IGES
      • Export IGES files from other CAD systems
      • IGES import entity conversion
      • IGES export 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
    • Import Configurator settings
•  Augmented Reality
  • Augmented Reality Experience for CAD Design
  • Workflow to Publish and View Augmented Reality Experience
  • Set a Spatial Target
  • Publish Models to AR Experience
  • Share an Experience Model
  • Premium Experience Service Administrative Portal
•  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
      • Grow a surface
      • Reintersect faces
      • Add or remove a curve from a surface mesh
      • Delete a face
      • Trim a face
      • Untrim a face
    •  Creo Elements/Direct Surfacing module
      • Adjust faces
      • Bridge faces
      • Create a surface with Cap
      • Create a surface with Skin
      • Create a surface with Guided Loft
      • Create a surface with Advanced Sweep
      • Offset face parts
      • Round a face
      • Split edges
      • Split solid parts with face parts
      • Extrude face parts or edges
      • Smooth a surface
      • Thicken a face part
      • Work with the surface editor
      •  Modify surfaces dynamically
        • Modify surfaces dynamically
        • Modify surfaces
    •  Analyze a surface
      • Analyze the quality of a surface
      • Analyze the angle between surfaces
      • Show gaps between faces
    • Multiview
  •  Sheet parts
    • Bend a part
    • Change a bend
    • Animate a bend
  •  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
    • Work with the Wire Editor
    • 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
  •  Inseparables
    • About inseparable objects
    • Rules for inseparable objects
    • Create an inseparable object
    • Separate an inseparable object
    • Limitations of inseparable objects
  •  Stock/finish relation
    • Stock-finish relation
    • Create a stock-finish relation
    • Working with a stock-finish relation
•  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
•  Render a design
  •  Creo Elements/Direct Rendering
    • Rendering Module overview
    • Rendering Browser
    • Assign a render material
    • Using decals
    • Assign a light studio
    • Assign scenery
    • Render an image
    • Remove materials, lights, or scenery
    • Save and load scenes
    • Create or edit a rendering entity
    • Save and load archives
•  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 new drawing by transferring docuplanes
      • 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
      • Create a flat view
      • Transfer docuplanes
      • Set view profiles
    •  Update a view
      • Update a view
      • Update modes
      • Transfer docuplane annotations
      • Create docuplanes from 2D views
      • Conditions and controls on transferring 3D documentation
      • Reset 3D labels
      • Transfer coordinate systems
  •  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
      • DXF/DWG Configurator settings
    •  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 the 3D documentation transfer 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
    •  Creo Elements/Direct Annotation and WorkManager
      • Access the WorkManager Database
      • Save 2D Data Command
    •  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 Remote Server Update Module
      • Overview of the remote server update module
      • How to use the remote server update module
    •  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
  • Modeling Server for Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
  • 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
  • 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
  • Suppressing the 3D Annotation owner conflict message
  • 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
  • ACIS (SAT) save options
  • IGES save options
  • STEP save options
  • STL save options
  • Export STEP files from other CAD systems
  • Example STEP export configuration file
  • Example IGES 2nut.out file
  • Example: Modeling dek log file
  • Example STEP export log file
  • 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
  • Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager Help
  • 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
  • Physical simulation
  • Valid part names
  • Dynamic dragging
  • Stop at point of clashing
  • Mate and Align positioning tools
  • 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
  • Rendering settings
  • Selecting geometry
  • Focusing the catch mode
  • Select modes
  • Example: Selecting 2D elements
  • Attach material to a part
  • Length of the bend
  • The K Factor
  • Fold and unfold parts
  • 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 using weights
  • 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
  • What’s New in Creo Elements/Direct Part Library
  • 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
•  Extended modules
  •  3D Documenation
    • 3D Documentation overview
    •  Create 3D documentation
      • Create a 3D note
      • Attach a generic text label
      • Automatic dimensioning
      • Overview
      • GD&T customization
      • Docuplanes
      • General tolerances
      • Other functions
      • Indexes
      • Groups
      • How to specify settings for BOM position flags
    •  Modify 3D documentation
      • Move annotations
      • Change the orientation of annotations
      • Delete annotations
      • Change annotation reference attach points
      • Modify reference lines
      • Modify the contents of an annotation
      • Assign the general tolerance
      • Show the general tolerance
      • Set the default GD&T owner
      • Exclude some 3D annotations from transfer to 2D
      • Scale annotations
    • Display 3D Documentation annotation
    • Highlight annotations
    • Load or delete fonts for 3D documentation
    • Change 3D Documentation settings
    •  Create symbols
      • Template browser overview
      • Create surface symbols
      • Create welding symbols
      • Create user-defined symbols
    •  Create GD/T datums and tolerance labels
      • Creo Elements/Direct Annotation indexes
      • Functional features and feature points
    •  Create BOM information labels
      • Bill of Materials (BOM) and 3D position flags
      • Create, change, and remove position flags
    •  Create 3D dimension labels
      • 3D Dimensions overview
      • Create distance dimensions
      • Create angle dimensions
      • Create coordinate and baseline dimensions
      • Create radius and diameter dimensions
      • Dimension an unbounded slot
      • Add tolerances to dimensions
    •  Docuplanes
      • Docuplane overview
      • Section docuplanes
      • Create a docuplane
      • Modify a docuplane
      • Create a partial or detail docuplane
      • Draw sub-docuplane borders
      • Show a docuplane
      • Set the active docuplane
      • Gather annotations to docuplanes
      • Highlight a docuplane
      • Delete a docuplane
      • Change docuplane default settings
      • Change the settings of existing docuplanes
      • Reset a partial docuplane
    •  Groups
      • Create a group of annotations
      • Modify a group
      • Delete a group
      • Show a group's annotations
      • GD&T tolerance definition
      • The GD&T tolerance options
      • GD&T Datums and Tolerances
      • GD&T symbols overview
      • Creating GD&T tolerance symbols
  •  Advanced Machining
    • Working with Advanced Machining
    • Creo Elements/Direct Machining basics
    • Activate Machining
    • Set diameter tolerances
    • Set exact coordinates for the axis of the holes
    • Check and validate Creo Elements/Direct Machining features
    • Specify tolerance
    • Specify surface quality
    • Creo Elements/Direct Machining settings
    • How to interpret error messages
    • Creo Elements/Direct Machining FAQ
    • Known Problems
    •  Types of machined features
      • Types of machined features
      • Blind Hole Parameters
      • Countersunk Blind Hole Parameters
      • Counterbored Through Hole Parameters
      • Counterbored Through Hole with Chamfer Parameters
      • Countersunk Partially Toleranced Blind Hole Parameters
      • Countersunk Partially Toleranced Flat Blind Hole Parameters
      • Countersunk Partially Toleranced Through Hole Parameters
      • Countersunk Through Hole Parameters
      • Flat Blind Hole Parameters
      • Countersunk Flat Blind Hole Parameters
      • Partially Threaded Through Hole Parameters
      • Partially Threaded Blind Hole Parameters
      • Threaded Through Hole Parameters
      • Thread Bolt with Clearance Parameters
      • Thread Bolt with Groove Parameters
      • Outer Thread with Clearance Parameters
      • Outer Thread with Groove Parameters
      •  Stepped hole
        • Stepped Hole Overview
        • Stepped Hole Parameters
        • Blind Hole Step Parameters
        • Flat Blind Hole Step Parameters
        • Through Hole Step Parameters
        • Threaded Through Hole Step Parameters
        • Partially Threaded Through Hole Step Parameters
        • Partially Threaded Blind Hole Step Parameters
        • Partially Threaded Flat Blind Hole Step Parameters
        • Partially Toleranced Through Hole Step Parameters
        • Partially Toleranced Blind Hole Step Parameters
        • Partially Toleranced Flat Blind Hole Step Parameters
    •  Machining examples
      • Example: Create a linear pattern of machined holes
      • Example: Create a radial grid pattern of machined holes
      • Example: Specify a surface quality
      • Example: Specify a tolerance
    •  Export to other CAM systems
      • Export to Other CAM systems
      • Export to GoElan V4
      • Export to HyperFact
    •  Machining customization
      • Machining customization overview
      • Customizing an existing table by replacement
      • Customizing an existing table by insert/remove
      • Customizing the names used for the Creo Elements/Direct Machining Advisor Features
      • Customizing the flag/label strings used for the Creo Elements/Direct Machining Advisor Features
      • Supplying additional tables - example 1
      • Supplying additional tables - example 2
      • Supplying additional tables - example 3
      • Supplying additional tables - example 4
      • Supplying additional tables - example 5
      • Supplying additional tables - example 6
      • Customizing the default cone angle of the drill tool tip
      • Customizing default values for variables (here Chamfer Depth)
      • Customizing parameter advice
      • Multiple value combinations for threaded holes
      • Default Values (here tolerances only)
      • Default Values (here tolerances and Value)
      • Data table customization
      • Creo Elements/Direct Modeling - Creo Elements/Direct Machining - Integration Kit - Hole Definition
  •  Animation (Creo Elements/Direct Advanced Design)
    • Animation overview
    • Define an animation
    • Physical simulation in animations
    • Insert or modify a control position
    • Copy or move a control position
    • Remove a control position
    • Solve a relation set in an animation
    • Rename an animation
    • Play an animation
    • Trace an animation
    • Delete an animation
    • Export an animation
    • Create a sequence marker
  •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling
    •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorials
      • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorials
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 1: Getting Started
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 1: Step 1 of 4
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 1: Step 2 of 4
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 1: Step 3 of 4
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 1: Step 4 of 4
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 2: Learn to Route Cables
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 2: Step 1 of 6
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 2: Step 2 of 6
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 2: Step 3 of 6
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 2: Step 4 of 6
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 2: Step 5 of 6
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 2: Step 6 of 6
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 3: Create your own cable
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 3: Step 1 of 2
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 3: Step 2 of 2
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 4: Connect wires to terminals and points
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 4: Step 1 of 4
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 4: Step 2 of 4
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 4: Step 3 of 4
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 4: Step 4 of 4
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 5: Create cables on a workplane
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 5: Step 1 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 5: Step 2 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 5: Step 3 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 5: Step 4 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 5: Step 5 of 5
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 6: Position wires in a clamp
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 6: Step 1 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 6: Step 2 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 6: Step 3 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 6: Step 4 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 6: Step 5 of 5
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 7: Define a new connector
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 7: Step 1 of 3
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 7: Step 2 of 3
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 7: Step 3 of 3
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 8: Modify wireframes
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 8: Step 1 of 8
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 8: Step 2 of 8
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 8: Step 3 of 8
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 8: Step 4 of 8
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 8: Step 5 of 8
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 8: Step 6 of 8
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 8: Step 7 of 8
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 8: Step 8 of 8
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 9: Create parallel wires or cables
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 9: Step 1 of 4
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 9: Step 2 of 4
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 9: Step 3 of 4
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 9: Step 4 of 4
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 10: Define connector libraries
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 10: Step 1 of 2
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 10: Step 2 of 2
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 11: Create a drawing of your cables
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 11: Step 1 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 11: Step 2 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 11: Step 3 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 11: Step 4 of 5
        • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling Tutorial 11: Step 5 of 5
    •  Getting started with Creo Elements/Direct Cabling
      • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling overview
      • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling graphical overview
      • Strategies for creating harness assemblies
      • The main menu
    •  Harness
      • Create or activate a harness assembly
      • Rename harness component or assembly
      • Copy a harness assembly
      • Select a cable or wire
    •  Manual Routing
      • Route cables manually
      • Route cables manually by polygon
      • Route cables manually by spline
      • Route cables manually by profile
      • Route cables manually from pin to pin
      • Route cables manually by faces
      • Route cables manually through clamps
      • Route cables manually on edges
      • Route cables manually by XYZ list
      • Route cables manually using pin tables
      • Append segments to routing
      • Move an end point
      • Modify a spline
      • Convert a straight edge to a spline edge
      • Modify polygonal routing using a coordinate table
      • Modify cable or channel tangency
    •  Automatic Routing
      • Route cables automatically
      • Show and delete channel sizes
    •  Path
      • Create a cable channel dynamically
      • Create a cable channel by gathering edges
      • Create a spline cable channel
      • Create a cable channel through clamps
      • Create a cable channel by bridged curve
      • Move cable clamps
      • Create and manage channel groups
      • Modify a cable channel
      • Highlight a cable channel
    •  Creating Channels with the Spline Channel Editor
      • The Spline Channel Editor
      •  Create channel edges
        • Create channel edges
        • Create a channel through selected points
        • Create a channel from or to a connector
        • Create a branch on an existing segment
        • Route through a guide
        • Create a channel using straight lines
        • Create a channel using intelligent detection
      •  Modify channel edges
        • Modify channel edges
        • Insert a point
        • Move a point
        • Delete a channel segment
        • Assign and delete tangency
        • Tangentially connect channel segments
        • Merge channel segments
      •  Create and modify guides
        • About guides
        • Create a guide
        • Modify a guide
      •  Work with channels
        • Work with channels
        • Set visibility
        • Work with workplanes
        • Create 2D geometry
      • Set search paths
    •  Grouping
      • Define and manage groups and units
    •  Flatcables
      • Create a flat cable
      • Append segments to flat cable routing
      • Extend or shorten a flat cable
      • Split a flat cable
      • Cut or unite a flat cable
      • Reposition a flat cable
      • Find and set a flat cable's flat face and pin 1 face
      • Modify the bend radius of a cable
      • Modify a fold
      • Add or remove a stripping length
      • Modify a section of the flat cable
    •  Advanced
      • Delete a cable
      • Replace a cable
      • Split a cable end
      • Explode a cable into its conductors
      • Trim wireframe segments
      • Reposition wireframe segments
      • Merge wireframe segments
      • Delete a wireframe segment
      • Create a fillet
      • Bridge wireframe segments
      • Delete wireframe tangents
      • Split a wireframe segment
      • Create a twisted cable
      • Clean a harness assembly
    •  Visualization
      • Visualize wires and cables
    •  Settings
      • Adjust global Creo Elements/Direct Cabling module settings
      • Set wire, cable, and part libraries
    •  Inquiries
      • Run reports and inquiries
    •  Definitions
      • Work with the wire and cable librarians
      • Create bundles
      • Define connectors, terminals, housing, or clamps
      • Define and position snap-in components
      • Add user-defined attributes to cabling components
    •  Manufacturing
      • Create a drawing from a harness assembly
    •  Libraries
      • Connector, fixture, and terminal libraries
      • Load an electrical library component's snapping partner
      • Move, delete, and rearrange fixtures
      • Reposition terminals
      • Reposition connectors
    •  ECAD Interface
      • Work with the ECAD interface
      • Import a .con file
      • Map part names of ECAD connectors to WorkManager/Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager
    •  Creo Elements/Direct Cabling and Model Manager
      • Creo Elements/Direct Cabling and Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager
      • Set Creo Elements/Direct Cabling library ID
  •  Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis
    • Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis graphical overview
    • Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis overview
    • Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis setup
    •  Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis basics
      • Analysis job components
    • Using a study
    • Using the Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis Show Properties Dialog Box
    • Basic finite element theory
    • The analysis run
    • Set default parameters
    • Change the appearance of the contour map
    • Change symbol characteristics
    • Change units of measure
    • Design Doctor
    • Concentrate elements at points
    • Create node locations (hardpoints)
    • Concentrate mesh elements on geometry
    •  Set up and run an analysis
      • Set up and run an analysis
      • Analysis types
      • Result types
      • Set up an analysis
      • What Pre-check does
      • Run the analysis
      • Remote solving
    •  Creo Elements/Direct Finite Element Analysis studies
      • Create a study
      • Activate a study
      • Manage studies
      • Create studies for assembly analysis
      • Handling the active study during load
      •  Combined studies
        • Combined thermal and mechanical studies
        • Create a combined thermal and mechanical study
        • Combine existing studies
    •  Mesh and mesh conditioning
      • Mesh and mesh conditioning
      • Automeshing
      • Create mesh conditions
      • Define a shell element
      • Modify a conditioned mesh
      • Verify the mesh
      • Export mesh information
      • Visualize mesh quality
      • Generate an analysis report
      • Change the appearance of the mesh
    •  Apply loads and boundary conditions
      • Apply loads and boundary conditions
      • Constraints
      • Create a mating relation
      • Static loads
      • Pressure loads
      • Enforced displacements
      • Part temperature expansion
      • Global loads
      • Thermal analysis loads and boundary conditions
      • Apply thermal analysis loads
      • Free convection loading
      • Modify loads and boundary conditions
      • Share an LBC
      • Highlight load or boundary conditions
      • Change the symbol size
      • Interpreting Structure Browser icons
    •  Material libraries
      • Material libraries
      • Create and edit a material database
      • Create a material database
      • Describe material properties
      • Manage materials in the study
      • Enter material properties
    •  Unit systems
      • Unit systems
      • Supported unit settings by the MSC solving components
      • Which unit settings are used for which properties
    •  Post-processing
      • Post processing
      • Animate the results
      • Select a dataset to display
      • Select modes from modal and linear buckling results
      • Inquire a result
      • Show or hide results
      • Set display options
      • Create a result-dependent thermal load
  •  IDF Data Adapter
    • Tutorial
    • Creo Elements/Direct Modeling IDF Data Adapter (PCB I/F)
  •  Inspection
    • Getting started—a simple example
    • Using the Inspection module
    • Using the Inspection Module
    • Inspection Module Concepts
    • Inspection Module Concepts
  •  Creo Elements/Direct Mold Base
    • Introduction to Creo Elements/Direct Mold Base
    • Steps in designing a mold base
    • Inserts
    •  Mold base basics
      • Mold base
      • Mold setup
      • Coordinate system
      • Plate size rules
      •  Creating a new mold
        • New mold
        • Catalogue
        • Mold type
        • Mold size
        • Thickness
        • Standard components
        • Options (non-standard)
      • Create plate
      • Create insulation plate
      • Edit mold
      • Modify plate dimension
      • Delete plate
      • Plate settings
    •  Standard components
      •  New component
        • Selected component table
        • New component
        • Position
        • Length
        • Orientation
        • Component rule implementation
      •  Component library
        • Component library
        • Leader pin
        • Guide pin
        • Bushing
        • Sleeve
        • Leader Pin2
        • Guide pin2
        • Angular pin
        • Cap screw
        • Countersunk screw
        • Shoulder screw
        • Set screw
        • Ejector
        • Ejector pin
        • Ejector sleeve
        • Flat ejector
        • Stop pin
        • Stop disc
        • Spru bushing
        • Locating ring
        • Support pillar
        • Dowel pin
        • Tubular dowel pin
        • Lifting Hole
        • Tapered interlock female
        • Tapered interlock male
        • Shoulder plate 1 (countersunk screw head)
        • Shoulder plate 2 (cap screw head)
        • Stamps
        • Spring
      • Modify component
      • Add component to group
      • Remove components
      • Move components
      • Rotate component group
      • Copy component group
      • Linear copy
      • Radial copy
      • Component settings
    •  Heat exchange
      • Heat exchange
      • Create pipe cycle
      • From solid
      • Modify dimensions
      • Modify position
      • Add pipe
      • Remove pipe
      • Add component
      • Modify component
      • Remove component
      • Create solid pipe
      • Solid from pipe
      • Remove solid pipe
    •  User components
      • User components
      • File structure
      • registration
      • User components menu
      • New user component
      • Edit user component
    •  Recalculate
      • recalculate
      • Manual Recalculate
    •  Tools
      • Tools
      • B.O.M
      • Cnc
      • Part attributes
      • Freeze part
      • Collision
      • User component database attributes
    • Creo Elements/Direct Mold Base - Design Data Management Integration
    • Customizing the Creo Elements/Direct Mold Base Module
    • Creo Elements/Direct Mold Base tutorial
  •  Mold Design
    • Mold Design overview
    •  Create plastic features
      • Create plastic features
      • Create a boss
      • Create a rib
      • Create a gusset
      • Create a user-defined plastic feature
      • Register a user-defined plastic feature
      • Project an outline
    • Modify a plastic feature
    • Core a part
    • Groove Mill
    • Taper a part
    • Extend to plane
    • The Plastic Feature browser
    •  Core and cavity tools
      • Initialization tools
      • Split a part
      • Imprint edges
      • Working with surfaces
      • Create a form
    •  General molding tools
      • Check wall thickness
      • Check for undercuts
      • Calculate contact faces
      • Highlight a mold part feature
      • Set the mold defaults
    •  Check wall thickness
      • Analyze 3D wall thickness
      • Select a face for analysis
      • Improve facet refinement
      • Control sharp edges and side faces
      • Change the analysis colors
      • Display your calculated graphics report
  •  Creo Elements/Direct Part Library
    • Creo Elements/Direct Part Library overview
    •  Parts
      • Load a library part
      • Move a library part
      • Replace or update library parts
      • Creo Elements/Direct Part Library standard part settings
      • Store a new workplane
      • Store a part or an assembly as a template
      • Define a mounting situation
    •  Materials
      • Creo Elements/Direct Part Library materials
      • Assign material properties to a part
      • Copy a part's material
      • Remove a part's material properties
      • Manage the material library
      • Align a hatch pattern
    •  Center holes
      • Types of center holes
      • Create a center hole
      • Change a center hole
    •  Drilled holes
      • Creo Elements/Direct Part Library drilled holes
      • Add a drilled hole
      • Move a drilled hole
      • Copy a drilled hole
      • Reverse a drilled hole
      • Change a pattern of drilled holes
      • Change hole parameters
      • Change drilled hole settings
      • Transfer a drilled hole
      • Identify a drill feature
      • Create a sink data table
    •  Feather keys
      • Elongate keyway
      • Key types
      • Add a key and hub
      • Create keyways in a hub
      • Create a workplane for keys
    •  Screw connections
      • Creo Elements/Direct Part Library screw connections
      • Add a screw connection
      • Add a screw connection without a drilled hole
      • Add a screw connection for simple parts
      • Copy a screw connection
      • Change a screw connection
      • Change a pattern of screw connections
      • Move a screw connection
    •  Threaded faces
      • Creo Elements/Direct Part Library threads
      • Add threads to a face
      • Identify threads from imported geometry
      • Create thread shape
      • Add a chamfer to a threaded part
      • Add a thread undercut
      • Change a threaded face
      • Remove thread properties from a face
      • Change thread highlight color
      • Change thread data tables
      • Create a thread data table
    •  Tooth shafts
      • Mill tooth shafts and hubs
      • Mill a shaft for DIN 5480
      • Mill a shaft for DIN 5481
      • Mill a shaft for DIN ISO 14
      • Create profile to mill a shaft for DIN 5480
      • Create profile to mill a shaft for DIN 5481
      • Create profile to mill a hub for DIN 5480
      • Create profile to mill a hub for DIN 5481
      • Create a profile for DIN ISO 14
    •  Pipelines
      • Add a pipeline
      • Route a pipeline normally
      • Route a pipeline short
      • Create a curve
    •  Other features
      • Add a groove for a retaining ring
      • Add undercuts on shafts or holes
      • Create knurls
    •  Part and assembly functions
      • Compare parts
      • Position a part
      • Replace a part or assembly
      • Make a part independent
      • Rename a part
      • Create a simplified assembly
    • Remove a Creo Elements/Direct Part Library feature
    •  Administration
      •  Creo Elements/Direct Part Library administration
        • Creo Elements/Direct Part Library administration
        • Add a library part or assembly
        • Add a parametric part
        • Change a library part
        • Delete a library part
        • Create a group
        • Modify a group
        • Delete a group
        • Add Additional Information
        • Migration of information
        • Customizing a standard library part
      • Customize Creo Elements/Direct Part Library
      • Update out-of-date library parts in Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager
      • Create company or group directories on a network drive
      • Change a screw connection
    •  Annotation functions
      • Dimension drilled holes in Creo Elements/Direct Annotation
      • Create a fit table
      • Customize fit tables
      • Generate BOM flags
      • Migrate BOM flags
      • List of drillings
      • Secure a standard part
      • Inquire a drawing
      • BOM raster image
    • Mark as a library element
  •  Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal
    • Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal overview
    • Getting started with Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal
    •  Create a sheet metal part
      • Create a new sheet metal part
      • Add sheets to the sheet metal part
      • Add a lip
      • Add a hem
      • Insert an offset
    •  Apply punch and stamp tools
      • Sort and select tool types
      • Add a bend relief
      • Add a corner relief
      • Change the tool angle
      • Create hole features with punch tools
      • Create stamp features with stamp tools
      • Adjust the cursor reference point
      • Adjust the tool angle
      • Adjust the tool depth
      • Violating the tool distance zones
    •  Modify a sheet metal part
      • Create bends
      • Modify a bend
      • Align lip side faces
      • Stretch a lip
      • Delete a lip
      • Modify the material
      • Orthogonal side face cutting
      • Cut slots
      • Modifying sheet features
    •  Unfold a sheet metal part
      • Unfold a sheet metal part
      • Fold a sheet metal part
      • Bend selection
      • Length of the bend
      • Geometry modifications in the bend region
      • Reliefless bending
      • Fold/Unfold restrictions
    •  Import sheet metal parts
      • Attach a material attribute to non-Sheet Metal parts
      • Change sharp bends to regular Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal bends
      • Handling non-planar surfaces
      • Analyze and redesign sheet metal parts
    • Custom sheet features
    •  Final processing of the completed design
      • Unfold a sheet metal part
      • Color coding and flat annotation in Creo Elements/Direct Annotation and Creo Elements/Direct Drafting
      • Statistical information in text file
      • Performing a cost estimate
      • Bend animation
      • Inquiring material
      • Inquiring features
      • Multi Unfold
    •  Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal settings
      • Set the design defaults
      • Attaching material
      • Attaching bends
      • Updating bends
      • Set Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal highlight colors
    •  Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal customization
      • Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal shop changes
      • Creo Elements/Direct Sheet Metal interface functions
      • Technology Database overview
      • The Technology Database Browser
      • Allowance tables and formulas
      • Bends, hems, offsets, and reliefs
      • Punch
      • Stamp
      • Controlling the information output to the flat
      • Cost estimates
      • Multi Unfold
    • Graphical help for tools and processes
  •  Simplification
    • Simplification overview
    • Model versioning
    • Start a simplification operation
    • Create a simplified model
    • Simplification definitions
    • View removed features
    • Candidate features
    • Geometry measures
    • Appearance in the browser
    • Simplification options
    • Simplification limitations
  •  Application Interfaces
    • External applications overview
    • Performing and updating Creo Simulate analysis
    • Transferring a model from Creo Elements/Direct Modeling to Pro/TOOLMAKER
  •  Relations
    • Relations overview
    • Relation types
    • Enable or disable relation warnings
    • Inquiry functions
    • The Relation Details Browser
    • Relation variables
    • Symmetry type relations
    •  Relation sets
      • Create a relation set
      • Modify a relation set
      • Copy a relation set
      • Delete a relation set
      • Set the active relation set
      • Solve a relation set
      • Preview a relation set
      • Change Relations settings
      • Relation sets
      • Create a rigid relation
      • Valid reference elements and focus
      • Logical and mathematical expressions in relations
      • Measure relation types
    •  Parametric relations
      • Parametric relation types
      • About relations for patterns
      • Create a Parametric relation
      • Create a relation for a pattern
      • Modify a relation
      • Activate, deactivate, or delete relations
      • Modify relation labels
      • Animate a relation
      • Using parameter tables
    •  Assembly relations
      • Create an assembly relation
    • Normals, displacement, and direction in relations
    • Include and Exclude relation types
    • Create a fixed relation
  •  PCB
    • Add a profile
    • PCB Assemblies
    • IDF Data Adapter (PCB I/F) configuration file for BoardStation format
    • Creating 3D PCB Models from Board Station Files (EIF Format)
    • Configuring Creo Elements/Direct Modeling IDF Data Adapter (PCB I/F)
    • Creating New 3D PCB Assembly Models in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
    • Design a new model
    • PCB Files
    • Getting Started
    • Change an IDF profile
    • IDF Data Adapter (PCB I/F) configuration file for IDF format
    • Creating 3D PCB Models from IDF Files
    • IDF Data Adapter (PCB I/F) MentorGraphics library
    • PCB Model
    • Creo Elements/Direct Modeling IDF Data Adapter (PCB I/F) Basics
    • PCB Parts
    • PCB Profiles
    • Store and load models
  • Glossary
• About Windchill PDM Actions
•  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
•  Documentation for Advanced Users
  • Advanced Documentation