Creo Parametric 10.0.0.0

There is more flexibility in Dimension Patterns for nested pattern situations. This refers in particular to Pattern of Pattern use cases where the outer pattern is supposed to drive incremental changes in the pattern members count of the inner pattern.

In Creo 10.0, when you create a dimension pattern of a base (inner) pattern, you can also select inner pattern member dimensions as increment-direction dimension. This allows the outer dimension pattern to drive and increment the number of pattern members of a nested pattern. By default, the increment is 1. It can be set to any positive number including 0 where real values will be truncated to integer values. In case calculated pattern member values are smaller than 1, they will be set to 1. Pattern member dimensions can also be defined by relations.

In context of this enhancement, a previous general limitation on pattern member dimensions is removed. You can now set the number of pattern members to 1.

This enhancement provides increased design productivity and usability for models that contain nested dimension and reference patterns.

Previously, Pattern of Patterns with varying numbers of member instances required more complex or time-consuming pattern definitions or workarounds through table patterns.