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Apply Model Templates

Detect missing template data on an existing Creo model and apply a CadActive model template — all of it, or selected items.

Use Apply Model Template on a model that already exists: CadActive compares it to an organization template and creates what is missing. Use Model Builder when you are creating a new model from a template instead.

See Model Templates for what a template contains, and Define Model Templates for how admins author them.

Open Apply Model Template

  1. Open the part, assembly, or drawing you want to update.

  2. In the CadActive ribbon, Standardize group, select Apply Model Template.

The dialog title is Apply Model Template - by CadActive. Choose Desired Template — the list is filtered to templates that match the current model’s type.

Apply the entire template

  1. Select the Desired Template.

  2. Select Apply Template.

CadActive applies every table on that template (parameters, relations, notes, and views the type supports). Selecting or applying a template also writes the template identity onto the model, according to Save Model Template into Models in Settings for Standardize.

Create order is Parameters → Relations → Notes → Orientations → Sections → Simplified Reps → Layers → Layer States → Explode → Style → Appearance → Combined States → Features. If Force Regen After Apply Model Template is on (the default), the part or assembly regenerates when apply finishes. If the template’s Auto-Run Model Check is set, ModelCHECK can run after that.

Apply a subset

  1. Select the Desired Template.

  2. Select Show Details in the footer.

  3. Open the tab you care about:

    1. Model Views — Combined States, Orientations, Simplified Reps, Layer States, Layers, Color States (appearance / style), plus sections and explode where the type supports them.

    2. Parameters — shows the assigned parameter profile and the parameter table.

    3. Notes — shows the assigned note profile. Right-click a note to View Note Body.

    4. Relations — template relations vs relations already on the model. You can add template relations or replace the model’s relations with the template’s.

  4. Status on a row:

    1. Red / Missing — in the template, not on the model.

    2. Green / OK — already present.

    3. Custom — on the model, not in the template.

  5. Select the rows to create, then Apply Selected. Missing icons turn green when those items exist on the model.

Seed a template from the current model

Admins who already have a compliant start model can upload it instead of building the template only in the web app.

  1. Open the start model (or any model that matches the standard).

  2. Open Apply Model Template.

  3. Tools → Add Current To Database.

  4. Choose the upload type: a whole New Model Template, or only Parameters, Notes, Orientations, Simp Reps, or Layers.

  5. Name the new template (for a full upload) and confirm.

Then open Standardize → Templates in the web app and attach parameter profiles, a note profile, and any extra views. That refine step is Define Model Templates.

Other tools on the dialog

  • Copy Layers From Model / Delete All Layers — layer utilities on the current model, independent of applying named template layers.

  • Generate Report — writes a report of template status for the current model.

  • Model Builder and Import Relations are also on the Tools → Models menu. Family-table and Windchill/Intralink parameter utilities under Admin Tools are not part of applying a template.

Unattended apply

The same engine runs from the command line with -CADACTIVE=STANDARDIZE and -ACTION=APPLY_MODEL_TEMPLATE (or a per-table *_CREATE action). Pass -MODEL_TEMPLATE= and restrict tables with -INCLUDE= or name filters. Details and examples: Standardize Command Line.

What apply does not do

  • Appearance and style states are detected as missing; creating them in Creo is a no-op today.

  • Explode states are created as named empty shells.

  • Delete-nonstandard is enforced for layers only.

  • Features apply is limited (ECAD board thickness). Combined states, features, and sections can fail if referenced objects are missing on the model — same as the ribbon, same as the CLI.

  • Parameter import or export from a file is not on this command or on the Standardize CLI. That comes with Parameter Management (Model Parameter Report and Component Parameter Reports).