Making surfaces from existing solid or copygeom

[treddie]

Hi.

I am fairly new to Creo and have a question about how it handles an old feature in ProE. It used to be that you could drop into Legacy mode and copy surfaces off of an existing solid or even a copygeom quilt. That appears gone now in Creo. Is this true? If so, is there an alternative?

Many thanks!

 

[treddie]

Anyone?

 

[treddie]

This is a serious limitation compared to Wildfire, if in fact there is no new way in Creo to do the same thing. Case in point, I have a driver side door single-sided surface that has been copygeomed into another file. I want to mirror it now for the other side, but as in Wildfire, you cannot mirror a copygeom feature. You have to copy it into surfaces first. Unfortunately, it appears that this ability is now gone in Creo. So the only option, which is a bit of a drag, is to save out a mirror image copy of the file, then re-copygeom THAT back into the original.

Can anyone chime in on this?

 

[treddie]

In addition, you cannot merge two copygeom surfaces. Again, they must be converted to surfaces first...Which is no longer possible?

 

[treddie]

I see that I had part of the problem misunderstood. You CAN thicken/merge/solidify a CopyGeom feature...Provided the copygeom is only a single solid or quilt in the original file. For example, if I try to combine two or more surfaces from separate features, into a single pubgeom, when it is imported into another file, you can't do anything with it. They have to be separate.

And I see now, the ability to copy individual surfaces from a solid or quilt is possible now, but via the Style function. What threw me was that now you can't just copy it, you have to assign a grid to it, which in my case, I just ignore. That made the function seem like it wasn't what I was looking for.

 

[treddie]

Unfortunately, copying surfaces with the Style feature only allows copying one surface at a time. THAT's a bummer.

 

[treddie]

Also, finding out that it is flaky at best trying to merge two Styles into one quilt.

Why did PTC do away with copying surfaces from solids and quilts? I used that capability soooooo much. Now, I'm left with nothing dependable.