Restricted reference management is now available from both the Individual and Surface Sets tabs of the References dialog box. The Surface Sets tab also provides access to non-restricted reference management. Additionally, the layout of the Annotation Feature dialog box has been updated.
User Interface Location: The Surface Sets tab for a standalone surface finish and the surfaces collector for annotation feature-owned surface finish, as shown in the following graphic:

Release: Creo Parametric 9.0.0.0

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What is the benefit of this enhancement?
This enhancement allows you to easily specify restricted references, meaning surfaces where only a single surface finish can be applied. A physical surface finish can have only one surface finish definition.

This capability ensures that no additional surface finish instances can be applied to surfaces already collected as restricted surfaces of another instance, avoiding ambiguous situations.

Overall, this enhancement provides an easier way to manage both restricted and non-restricted references for surface finish placement in Creo.

Additional Information

Tips:None.
Limitations:A placement reference is automatically considered as a restricted reference. A reference that is not added via the restricted references user interface, for example, added as an individual reference or added via the non-restricted command, is considered as a non-restricted reference. Only the placement reference and the references that are listed under the node with the  icon are counted as restricted references. Any attempt to place another surface finish on a restricted reference is blocked, and a message is displayed. The new commands allow you to add restricted and non-restricted references using advanced surface sets collection methods as well as individual references.
Does this replace existing functionality?No.
Configuration option associated with this functionality:None.

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