REnright - you can use the pattern feature for solids and surfaces. You have your choice of circular, rectangular and user pattern. You can do something similar in assembly.
If you use the pattern face, does it link them all to each other. I started my die design and I am so used to making one solid and just copying it around in UG,,,, I am going nuts trying to move stuff in V5. I guy I work with is suggesting that I draw one big sketch with locating points. It seems like way to much work just to make 8 equalizer bosses. By the way,,I appreciate your help.
ALright,,,,after I finally get the bosses to move,,,,now I can't adjust them individually. This system BLOWS. As far as die design goes.,,,,UG NX is far the superior.
If you need each Boss to be slightly different (i.e. orientation, diameter, etc), then your best bet is to create a PowerCopy, and then instanciate the PowerCopy at each location. You can control which aspects of your Boss are able to change by specifying the inputs to the PC.
As for CATIA blowing and UG NX being far superior, it all depends on your skills and knowledge of each system. There are many aspects of each system that are better than the same aspect of the other system. There are many UG users on this forum that have become CATIA Converts. There are also others that still prefer UG.
Personally, there are aspects of the old APPLICON Bravo system that I still miss (boy, that really dates me). But there are many strenghts in CATIA V5 that I wouldn't give up.
That's quite a statement for newbie to make, especially when you come asking simple questions about things like patterning. You don't know how to use the system, and you call another superior?
One thing you should learn, as a matter of courtesy - you should never bite the hand that feeds you. You came asking a question about Catia, and then proceeded to vent your frustration to people who are helping you. That's rather unprofessional, and could conjure up images of "the guy" in every department across America, that nobody wants to help because of bad attitude. From me to you - ease up, just a bit.
I didn't realize this was a judgemental site where guys like Solid7 like to patrol. I was simply saying that in UG, move ,copy, transform are all like a two second command. In V5 it seems to be very cumbersome. As far a s having a bad attitude,,,I don't. I just don't get why the simplest commands are not available in V5. I volunteered to learn the system. So far,,I am not seeing the benefit of die design on this system.
As far as the power copy,, what are the steps of doing this? Do I need to draw a sketch, make a pad, and then copy from a pre-determined point?
It was a friendly suggestion, and the judgement was based on what you put out for the world to see. Once again, don't bite the hand(s) that feed you.
As for powercopy tutorials, you find them either at the link in my signature, (CATBlog) or your online help documentation. Being a newbie, you would do very well to learn how to use the help docs. They're not as good as the NX help docs, (seriously) but they are very good, and there is a wealth of information to be found. Once you learn which workbench/module that each bit of information that you are looking for falls under, the process become much easier. (search by product, instead of all products)
Thank you. I not biting any hand that feeds me, I'm just simply trying to learn a system that is not very friendly. I have used UG for 9 yrs, and have taught my 6 yr old son how to draw blocks, cylinders, etc. Change colors and how to work the spaceball. Very easy to teach people UG, as I train all of our newbies. I will look into the tutorials.
Catia is not so easy to learn, I assure you. But there is a lot of value in the system, itself, especially when dealing with multiple part bodies, and the greater degree of freedom that you have when making downstream design changes. (in the history tree)
UG and Catia each have some very pronounced advantages. For my part, I much prefer the modeling environment in Catia, primarily because of the way things are handled in the tree. This probably means very little to you now, while learning die design - and maybe the benefits are not there. (not sure - never designed dies in UG or Catia V5) Stick with it. Once you pick up, there are things that you'll find that you would never trade UG for. And there are things that you are never going to want to give up from UG, especially later versions. (NX4 is awesome)
Good luck, and I hope that you find all the help that you need. If you don't find it here, also check out
