Article - CS56681

How to disable publishing of Datum Plane, Axes, Coordinate System, and Points in Creo Parametric Drawing in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 23-Nov-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.0
  • Creo View Adapters 1.0 to 11.1
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 11.0
  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire 2.0 to Wildfire 5.0

Description

  • Out-of-the-box, the Adapter for Creo will output the Datum information in the Drawing viewables (PLT, DWG, DXF, CGM, PDF, etc.)
  • The representations generated by the CAD worker should not display the Datum Plane, Datum Axes, Datum Coordinate System, Datum Points
  • How to configure the Creo View Adapters for Creo Parametric to disable the display of the following datum elements in model views when publishing a Creo Parametric drawing (.drw) file?
  • How to turn off the display of datums in published representation?
  • After publishing a drawing, Datum Planes, Axes, and Points show on the Windchill representation
  • How to remove the Datum Coordinate System information that appears in the representation after the drawing was transferred during visualization?
  • In CREO visualization, there are datum planes after turning off all the datums inside the configuration file, even using proepublish.bat to convert to PVZ
  • Creo drawings will display lots of CSYS (Datum Co-ordinate System), Datum Planes, Datum Axes, after converting to representation publishing, which seriously affects viewing drawings
  • PDF generated for a drawing differs from the PDF representation published
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