Creo Interview preparation questions

• Why is it a good idea to start drawings early in the part design?

Ans - Because it’s easier to show the dimensions from the model a few features at a time.
Start the drawing early and have the drawing process be a parallel process with creating the
part. In other words, create a couple features, go to the drawing, show the dimensions from
the feature on the drawing, go back to the model, create a couple more features, show those
dimensions on the drawing, etc.

• Define "Parametric Feature Based Modeling".

Ans - Parametric means driven by parameters. Feature based means you define a series of
instructions (features) to tell the system your design intent. Modeling means creating
computer images coupled with geometric information defining a part or assembly.

• What is Family table?

Ans - Family Tables are collections of parts (or assemblies or features) that are essentially
similar, but deviate slightly in one or two aspects, such as size or detail features.
For example, wood screws come in various sizes, but they all look alike and perform the same
function. Thus, it is useful to think of them as a family of parts. Parts in Family Tables are also
known as table-driven parts.

• In family tables, what is a ‘generic’ and what is an ‘instance’?

Ans - In Creo the generic is the original model. The instances are created by the system based
on the combination of the generic and the table.

• Why should you name features?

Ans - Features added to family tables should be named so that when you are looking at the
family table you can tell what feature is in the table.

• What are the file extensions given to sketches, parts, assemblies, drawings?
Ans - Sketches – .sec, Parts - .prt, Assemblies- .asm, Drawings- .drw

• What is function of [Link] file in Creo?

Ans - [Link] file records all the steps you are using during session if any case Creo (Pro/E)
crashes or power failure occurs, you can retrieve your unsaved work by running trail file.

• What is use of [Link] file in Creo?

Ans - [Link] is text file which stores all settings that define behaviour of Creo during it’s
use. This file also contains user macros which are called map keys.

• What are Mapkeys?

Ans - Mapkey option gives you flexibility to create a macro for series of commands that you
frequently using to keyboard shortcuts. Also, you can add mapkeys as icons to toolbar.

• What is [Link] file?

Ans - [Link] is a setup file used in drawings which define different formats, layouts, font
size, dimension style [Link] per company company standards.
• How should you create a new part or assembly? Why?
Ans - You should always create a new part or assembly using the copy from option in the new
dialog box and copy a start part. This ensures the proper layer setup, saved views, datum
planes, parameters, etc.

• What is the difference between File — > Erase and File — > Delete?
Ans - File erase removes the object from the ram of the computer and file delete removes
the object from the disk or hard drive of the computer.

• What is the difference between File — > Save and File — > Backup?
Ans - File save stores the object in the directory where it was opened from and file backup
copies the object to the specified directory using the same name.

• After performing a File, Save As, what is the current object?

Ans - After performing a file save as command the current object is not a new object it is the
old object.

• If I use Window in Creo and Close without saving my model, have I lost my work?
Ans - No.

• Name six common assumptions the sketcher will make.

Ans - Six common assumption the sketcher will make are as follows – Horizontal and vertical,
equal length lines, equal radius or diameter, co-linearity, 90 and 180 degree arcs, points on
the same horizontal or vertical, points on other entities, tangency, symmetry, parallel and
perpendicular lines.

• What is the difference between One Side and Both Sides in extrusion?
Ans - One-side extrudes only one specified direction from the sketching plane. Both sides
extrudes both sides of the sketching planes.

• What is the model tree?

Ans - The model tree is a graphical representation of the features and/or components in the
model.

• Define “Parametric Feature Based Modeling”?

Ans - Parametric means driven by parameters. Feature based means you define a series of
instructions (features) to tell the system your design intent. Modeling means creating
computer images coupled with geometric information defining a part or assembly.

• How do you add a model parameter in a drawing note?

Ans - Use ampersand and then the parameter name (&material).

• Name the four types of tolerance formats available in Creo?

Ans - Nominal (no tolerance shown), plus/minus, plus/minus symmetric, limits.

• What is a drawing symbol?

Ans - A symbol is a collection of draft entities that are stored together for reuse on other
drawings.
• Can the units of a part be changed without changing the size of the part?
Ans - Yes.

• What does ‘save status’ in the layer menu do?

Ans - Save status permanently sets the layer displays status of the model so that when the
model is saved and opened again the layer display is still set that way.

• When copying a feature, what is the difference between ‘dependent’ and ‘independent’
in Creo?
Ans - Dependent means that the copy feature will change when the original feature is
changed. Independent means that the new feature will not change when you change the
original feature.

• How we can get info about manually given dimension and through model annotation?
Ans – Review → Highlight by attributes → Item type (Dimension)→ Dimension type →
Highlight

• What is a cosmetic thread and why is it used?

Ans - A cosmetic thread is a special surface feature that is used to define threads in models.
It is only a cosmetic feature and does not affect mass properties. On drawings these features
display like you normally want them to for a threaded hole.

• What is ‘Component Display’?

Ans - Component display is used to show components in an assembly in different display
modes. (Wireframe, hidden line, no hidden, shaded, or not shown at all).

• Explain parent/child relationships.

Ans - Features reference the parents for definition. Example, the sketching plane of an
extruded protrusion is its first parent. The protrusion is the child of the sketching plane, etc.

• Can a feature with children be suppressed?

Ans - Yes, if you are willing to suppress the children as well.

• List three reasons to suppress features.

Ans - To simplify the model, to speed regeneration. To try different design iterations (what-
if scenarios). To reduce file size for transfers thru email or floppy disks, etc.

• Explain the difference between insert mode and suppressing features.

Ans - Insert mode allows you to add features to the model before existing features and have
the existing features move down in the model tree. Suppress removes features temporarily,
but when they resume, they come back to their original position in the model tree.

• Can a feature be reordered before any of its parents?

Ans - No, never.

• What text should not be edited in the drawing title block?

Ans - The tolerances, the scale, the number of sheets, just about everything except your
name and the date, because they are all driven by parameters coming from the part.
• How do you control the number of turns in a helical sweep feature?
Ans - You can’t, directly. The number of turns is the length of the trajectory divided by the
pitch

• What is a reference pattern?

Ans - A pattern that follows another pattern

• What is the difference between a ‘straight’ and ‘smooth’ blend feature?

Ans - Straight extrudes with straight segments between the sections. Smooth extrudes with
the best fit arc between three or more sections.

• What does the start point and direction arrow do in a blend feature?
Ans - The start point determines where the system starts counting the vertices in the section.
The direction arrow indicates the direction in which the system counts the vertices around
the section

• What does a ‘blend vertex’ do?

Ans - A blend vertex adds one additional vertex to the sketch, for example, when blending
between a rectangle and a triangle a blend vertex is required on the triangle section so that
the sections have the same number of vertices

• List three uses for datum axes.

Ans - Dimension and alignment references, centrelines on drawings, geometric tolerancing,
coaxial hole.

• List five uses for datum planes.

Ans - Sketching plane, reference plane, dimension and alignment references, geometric
tolerancing, creating cross sections.

• Which information can we get by the option mass properties?

Ans – Volume, Density, Surface area, Mass

• How many datum planes constrained required to lock the all degree of freedom?
Ans - Three

• What is the difference between Sweep and variable sweep?

Ans – In sweep command, single trajectory is used for only one profile and in variable sweep,
multiple trajectories can be selected with one origin trajectory for one profile

• What is the difference between Hide, Suppress and Simplified representation?

Ans - In hide command, the name of the hidden object is shown in gray. Model tree shows
hidden object grayed out and part/sub-assembly is hidden for that session. Suppress means
that feature/part/sub-assembly is permanently removed form model tree but we can
retrieve it by resuming that feature/part/sub-assembly again. Simplified representation
means, we can exclude unnecessary parts/subassembly from model tree to create new
representation, to simplify large assemblies.

• What is pro piping?

Ans – Pro-piping is module in Creo, which is used for preparing piping layout.
• How to relate cast and machined parts in Creo?
Ans – By using Merge/Inheritance command

• How do you find parent/child relationships?

Ans - Use info, global, reference viewer.

• What is Skeleton Modelling?

Ans - When you use a skeleton model, you set the design and motion intent at the beginning
of the design process for a part or subassembly. A skeleton model, placed in the assembly
and propagated with it, can be developed independent of the assembly and inserted
seamlessly at any time. A skeleton model can be used in more than one assembly.
A skeleton model can be created at any time in the design process. The system always lists
and regenerates the newly created skeleton model before all the other components and
assembly features.
There are two types of skeleton models: standard skeleton models and motion skeleton
models. You create standard skeleton models in an open assembly as parts. Motion skeleton
models are subassemblies that contain design skeletons (standard skeletons or internal
sketches) and body skeletons. You create standard skeletons using curves, surfaces, and
datum features. They can also include solid geometry.
Although skeletons models can only be created in an assembly, you can retrieve, manipulate,
and save them as ordinary parts (standard skeleton models) or assemblies (motion skeleton
models). Body skeletons are automatically saved as parts when you create them.

• What is interchangeability?
Ans - An Interchange assembly is an environment you can use to define interchangeable
models in an assembly. In an Interchange assembly you create placement references tag in
the models so that they can replace each other easily in a design assembly. There are two
types of components you can place in an Interchange assembly:
1. Functional interchange components—Used to Replace components in a design
assembly.
2. Simplify interchange components—Used to Substitute components in a simplified
representation.
• If you erase a dimension, is it gone forever?
Ans - No.

• How to add balloon?

Ans - Select BoM table → BOM Balloon → Create Balloon → Comp & View

• What is edge display command?

Ans - use to modify the line entities in drawing

• How to activate tolerance if it is inactive?

Ans – File → prepare→ drawing properties → detail options→ search tol_display → yes →
apply change → Ok
• What is Auxiliary view and Detail view?
Ans - An auxiliary view is an orthographic view taken in such a manner that the lines of sight
are not parallel to the principal projection planes (frontal, horizontal, or profile). A detail view
is a projected view generated from an existing drawing view. A detail view shows a specific
portion of the drawing

• What is bend allowance and how we can give it Creo?

Ans -By definition, the bend allowance is the arc length of the bend as measured along the
neutral axis of the material you are using. In Creo, we can give it by using, edit definition →
Bend allowance → use part specific settings

• Where we give the thickness to added sheet metal in Creo?

Ans - Automatically taken from parent

• In which type of flange bend angle is zero?

Ans - Flushed

• What is the difference between flat and flange?

Ans - In the flat walls you can control the shape of the profile, On the other hand, the section
can be controlled using the flange wall option.

• What is Creo Geometry Check ?

Ans - [Link]
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