Using Validation Parameters, the Import Status of Parts, and the Conversion Score
You can access the validation parameters of the model by following these steps:
1. Right-click an imported or non-native model on the Model Tree.
2. Click Parameters, or click > .
3. The validation parameters of the model appear in the Parameters dialog box.
The validation parameters are listed by their type values (integer, string), unit quantities (area, volume, length), and model units. The validation parameters of the imported model are locked and are not designated by default.
Validation Parameters
The Parameters dialog box displays the following parameters:
• PTC_VAL_IMP_PART_STATUS—Reports the import status of the part models. This parameter identifies the missing or failed components of assembly models and is not created for assembly models. It has the following values:
◦ OK—Parts successfully imported as solids.
◦ SOLID_FAILED—Parts or one or more bodies of a part failed to solidify. In the imported and non-Creo models, validation properties were not calculated because some parts, or a subset of bodies of a part failed to solidify.
◦ IMPORT_FAILED—Parts failed to import.
◦ MISSING_COMPONENT—Components are missing in the assembly model. This value is not valid for Translated Image Model (TIM) parts that show broken links when components are missing.
• PTC_VAL_IMP_NUMBER_OF_SOLIDS—Reports the number of solid bodies that exist in the imported part which consists of multiple solid bodies.
• PTC_VAL_IMP_FAILED_SOLIDS—Reports the number of bodies of a part that failed to solidify.
• PTC_VAL_IMP_SCORE—Reports the comparison results between the source models' values and the imported models' validation properties. Validation scores are reported for imported, regenerated, and updated part and assembly models. This parameter has the following values:
◦ PASS—The comparison results do not indicate warnings or errors.
◦ PASS_WITH_WARNINGS—The comparison results indicate warnings.
◦ FAIL—The comparison results indicate at least a single failure, such as parts failed to solidify, parts failed to import, or components are missing in the assembly model.
• PTC_VAL_IMP_MISSING_COMP_COUNT—Reports the missing components for each assembly node and sub-level of an assembly. This parameter is created only when components are missing.
• MISSING_MODEL—When a non-Creo part or assembly is missing from the disk, Creo creates a placeholder model for the missing component.
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The PTC_VAL_IMP_NUMBER_OF_SOLIDS and the PTC_VAL_IMP_FAILED_SOLIDS validation parameters are created only when the imported part contains multiple bodies. These parameters are not created for single-body part models.
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Missing Components in the Import Validation Report
The Import Validation Report automatically indicates missing components in the following cases:
• A non-Creo assembly is first opened in Creo via Creo Unite, and has external component model files that are not present in the Creo search path.
• A non-Creo assembly is imported into Creo and has an external component model files that are missing from the import location.
• An associative update or regeneration of missing TIM assemblies. TIMs are represented as placeholder models without import features or components. They are updated when the components are found, located, or restored.
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Unlike when opening non-Creo model via Creo Unite, in this case the system does not use the Creo search path to find missing non-Creo component model files on import.
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Import Validation Report Update
• An ATB update of a non-Creo assembly opened as a non-Creo model via Creo Unite occurs in two cases:
◦ New components were added to the foreign assembly, but the files for those added component models are missing in the Creo search path.
◦ Non-Creo external component files present initially in the Creo search are no longer found (for example, if they were deleted or moved to a different location).
• When an ATB of an imported TIM assembly models is updated:
◦ An existing TIM part or sub-assembly components are not found in the Creo search path (for example, if they were deleted or moved to a different location).
◦ Newly added non-Creo components of the non-Creo assembly are not available in the ATB search path.
The Import Validation Report will not update automatically in the following cases:
◦ The non-Creo assembly is updated, but the external non-Creo component file models are missing from the Creo search path.
◦ An imported TIM component part or sub-assembly model is missing from the Creo search path.
◦ If the non-Creo assembly is open, the model tree and standard Notification Center (NC) missing component check will identify the missing components. However, the Import Validation missing component check does not update automatically on retrieval if no ATB update is required. In this case, you can manually update the Import Validation Report via the RMB option.