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What’s New in Creo Elements/Direct Annotation
Part-colored Shaded Sections
There is a new option in shaded section views to use the part color as the section color.
User Interface Location:
• In Annotation, select a view.
• Click View Properties > Shaded
• Clear Section Plane Color.
Release: Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 20.2.4.0.
Watch a video that demonstrates this enhancement:
Part-colored shaded sections
What is the benefit of this enhancement?
The new color control option for shaded section views provides additional flexibility to present section views according to user needs.
Clear Section Plane Color for part-colored section representation. Select Section Plane Color for a uniform section representation using the default or a user-defined section color.
Creo Elements/Direct drawing with a section view and section colors derived from the part colors
Additional Information
Tips:
None.
Limitations:
No known limitations.
Does this replace existing functionality?
No.
Configuration options associated with this functionality:
None.
Updated Standards Support in Annotation
The Annotation module in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling has been updated to provide a higher level of compliance with current drawing standards.
User Interface Location: Click Applications > Annotation.
Release: Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 20.2.4.0.
Watch a video that demonstrates this enhancement:
Updated standards support in Annotation
What is the benefit of this enhancement?
The Annotation module in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling has been updated to provide a higher level of compliance with current drawing standards. This includes symbol updates and new functionality for various GD&T annotations.
Updated symbol font with additional symbol characters for the following standards:
• ISO 1101:2017
• ISO 5459
• ISO 14405:2016
• ASME Y14.5 – 2009
• ISO 2553:2013
GD&T enhancements:
Enhancements to the GD&T tolerance user interface—Restructured GD&T dialog box:
• The GD&T dialog box is restructured to provide increased definition flexibility and allow for more complex GD&T indications. This addresses standards-driven requirements introduced in more recent versions of the respective ISO and ASME standards outlined above.
• New dedicated input panels for tolerance and datum values consolidate the definition that was earlier scattered over several UI elements and make it easy to specify more advanced GD&T indications. You can select the required symbols from a symbol palette that contains standards-based, filtered symbols for usage in the tolerance and datum value fields, respectively. The set of available symbols is filtered based on the selected default standard value for the Annotation module (Viewport Settings > Annotation).
Examples of ASME / ISO GD&T indications:
Enhancements to the GD&T tolerance user interface—Expanded composite feature control frame:
Creation and navigation of multi-line and composite feature control frames are now aligned. Composite feature control frames can now consist of up to 4 lines. The list of geometric tolerance symbols is automatically filtered down for composite feature control frames of 3 or 4 lines.
Composite feature control frame with 4 lines
Enhancements to the GD&T tolerance user interface—Auxiliary feature indicators:
Auxiliary feature indicators can now be defined and attached to each line of a multi-line GD&T Symbol (ISO GPS Standard). These include Intersection Plane, Orientation Plane, Collection Plane, and Direction Feature indicators.
Geometric tolerance with intersection and collection plane indicators
Moveable Datum Targets:
• Moveable Datum Targets have been added.
• Dedicated support for standard-compliant presentation of Moveable Datum Target symbol rotation has been added.
Moveable Datum Target
Welding Symbols
Welding Symbols have been updated and now include symbols for the following weld types:
• Stud
• Spacer
• Flare bevel
• Double bevel butt
Open or closed arrow-heads for reference lines:
The Arrow Fill option is added to the Create Ref Line and Ref Line Properties commands.
Additional Information
Tips:
None.
Limitations:
No known limitations.
Does this replace existing functionality?
It enhances existing functionality.
Configuration options associated with this functionality:
None.