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What’s New in Creo Elements/Direct Part Library
New Search Similar Parts Tool in Part Library
You can now search for geometrically-similar or identical parts within an assembly and replace identical parts with shared parts.
User Interface Location: Click Part Library > Compare > Similarity Search.
Release: Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 20.4.4.0.
What is the benefit of this enhancement?
The new search tool has the following capabilities:
Powerful tool to find geometrically-similar parts in an assembly.
Level of geometrical similarity is indicated as a percentage (filtered based on a user-defined threshold).
Indications for identical, similar, and mirrored parts are available.
Identical parts (100% similarity) can be optionally replaced with shared parts.
Can be used in combination with visual part geometry comparison tool​.
Search Similar Parts
Additional Information
Tips:
None.
Limitations:
See Search for similar parts for details.
Does this replace existing functionality?
No.
Configuration options associated with this functionality:
None.