Background objects in Creo View/Illustrate

[TomM]

Hi,

Most of our assemblies created in Creo contain background objects which do not participate in BOM. They just facilitate the layout, including skeleton objects.

The problem is that all of those objects, which are not suppressed, are getting published by the WVS Worker and are available down the stream in Creo View and Creo Illustrate (however they're not present in MAPSB, PPB, visualization tabs).

Is there a way to set the worker up in such a way that those viewables won't contain such geometry and structure? Or is there a different workflow that would let us get this outcome other than suppressing all of those objects in CAD?

Kind regards,

Tom

[BillRyan]

One option is to create 2 sub-assemblies to separate out the BOM content from the background information. 

[TomM]

Guess I asked for it 😅

Thank you Bill. This does solve the problem but also straight up doubles the amount of assemblies and downgrades navigation.

A little more specific question:

Is there a way to make WVS worker responsible for publication and viewables creation skip all components set to certain BOM position (e.g. 0) in the process?

[vdegaonkar]

If you are using reference geometries are part of component and these part do not contribute to BoM then you can use Structure Visualization in such case components that are not present in BoM are not considered in Visualization Tab. 

If these reference geometries are part of same component then you shall create layer and hide these layers. While publishing you can skip conversion of hidden geometries. 

Ideally all reference geometries shall be part of Skeleton parts, which are not considered for Structure (BoM)  Visualization.