I created a surface, not a revolved solid. After further digging for the "hide" command I was indeed able to hide the surface with my pattern still intact. I had previously been trying the "suppress" and "exclude" (still not sure what this one means) commands without success. I guess I was...
I need to pattern many spheres as if a sheet of them were draped across a dome, so I revolved a simple sphere and then used the "fill" pattern in Creo2 and the "follow surface shape" option in "options" to pattern the spheres. In order to create the surface for this pattern to reference, I...