Article - CS350123

Unable to determine the negative and the positive side of a datum plane in Creo Parametric

Modified: 15-Dec-2024   


Applies To

  • Creo Parametric 8.0 to 12.4
  • Not applicable to Creo Parametric 7.0 and earlier releases

Description

  • Unable to determine the negative and the positive side of a datum plane
  • Per default (without config.pro), Datum Direction displayed graphically seems to be always positive (even in the scope of a negative orientation)
  • if in >File >Options >Entity Display, Display shaded datum planes is enabled (corresponding to "enable_legacy_datum_planes no*" in config.pro):
    • Just after having disabled Show Datum Plane with a color fil, system displays the expected positive or negative direction
    • But when model is rotated, the color remains unchanged (even when direction is supposed to be changed due to the new orientation)
  • Unable to distinguish the color of a datum plane's positive and negative sides.
  • The System Appearance -> Datum -> Negative side setting of the UI setting is invalid.
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