This section describes how to work with non-Creo parts and assemblies using Creo Unite.

Creo Unite enables you to open non-Creo parts and assemblies in Creo Parametric and other Creo applications, such as, Creo Simulate without creating separate Creo models. You can then assemble the part and assembly models that you opened as components of Creo assemblies to create multi-CAD assemblies of mixed content.

The non-Creo components of these heterogeneous assemblies retain their original names in Creo and continue to use their original source CAD applications as the design tool. They appear as foreign models and not as native Creo models.

You can open the part and assembly models of the following non-Creo file formats in Creo applications:

You can modify the non-Creo models in Creo applications, without altering the original design intent. For example, you can add annotations to the non-Creo models in a Creo application.

You can also make design changes to the non-Creo models in a multi-CAD assembly. Depending on the configuration options set in Creo, user confirmation may be required to apply the design changes. Refer to the Creo Parametric Data Exchange online help, for more information.

In applications where user confirmation cannot be obtained for design changes, for example, when Creo is running in batch mode, the appropriate functions such as, ProFeatureWithoptionsCreate(), return an error.

While working with a multi-CAD model, when you call the function ProFeatureWithoptionsCreate(), the output may vary depending on the value of the configuration option confirm_on_edit_foreign_models. The default value of the configuration option confirm_on_edit_foreign_models is yes. The following scenarios are possible depending on the value of the configuration option confirm_on_edit_foreign_models: