Hi All,
I am wondering if you guys came across this issue:
We just switched to using Creo 3. We were using Creo 2 with Windchill 10.2
Our start parts have these standard relations:
PART_NUMBER = rel_model_name()
PART_NAME = PTC_COMMON_NAME
PART_NUMBER and PART_NAME are designated parameters, and they are used in standard drawing's BOM tables.
Anyway, with Creo 2, when I renamed the CAD object in Windchill commonspace and downloaded this object to a workspace, then upon opening it and doing a regeneration, we'd get a warning about regenerating a read-only model. Subsequently, when attempting to save it, the "checkout/continue/make read-only" dialog box would be shown.
Now, in Creo 3, sames scenario leads to the model regenerating without any notifications (which is kind of nice), and the model parameters are changed (silently).
However, if one does nothing else to this model, and tries to save it, then the system says "object not saved because it was not changed" But that's obviously wrong, since the values of the PART_NUMBER and PART_NAME parameters have changed.
Moreover, one cannot check in these changes; the workaround seems to be to make a non-change to a model such as moving a feature in the model tree to a new spot and them moving it back to its old spot.
Is this the intended action? On one hand, it kind of seems to work. But I also seems wrong, and I will be looking at how this works with "as stored" drawings.
In the meantime, are there some settings in Creo 3 that I should know about and modify our standard configurations?