First i have to thank you for the amazing value you are putting out there❤❤❤ You taught me almost everything i know with creo and i am ver greatful. I have a question that i still have not figured out how to do. How do you design a part that you want to use more than once in the same assembly. Example: i created the skeleton containing all the main dimensions and surfaces i would like to specify. A base sheetmetal, a top cover sheet metal and 4 columns. And then different parts are to be bolted to the different columns. I specify the bolt position between each part and the column it is bolted to. So you end up with have a column that has a couple of bolt holes on the top and another will have a bolt hole on the bottom and so on. ( 4 columns that have the exact same dimensions but just hole in different positions ) Instead of creating a different part for every column i want to create one part that contains all the holes needed for all the columns and reuse the same part 4 times in the same assembly by turning the column upside down for left and right sides and whatnot. Is there a way to do so in a top down design approach?
I wouldn’t necessarily do that with Top Down functionality specifically. I would probably use Pattern Tables or Component Flexibility for the different hole variations.
Copy Geometry (and copy annotations) and copy parameters: that would be AWESOME. I don't know if this is too difficult to be implemented, but it will save lots of work... If you can copy annotations, why not and parameters??
Are you talking about part level or feature level parameters? Is there a reason you’re not using Notebooks? Can you give a use case? I would bet Top Down Design already provides methods for what you really want to do but you want to do it in a different way.
@@CADPLMGuy I am talking about any kind of parameters... When I am working with Autodesk's Inventor, there is an option to copy (derive) from the master part, parameters, dimensions, even reference dimensions to another part. Sometimes it's nice in cases where some parameters are not easy to be represented as geometry. Notebook is fine from mid to large, to very large projects... but for small project where you want to copy for example a parameter that controls the number of holes in a pattern, in my opinion notebook is too-much. OK you can do it, 1) create the pattern, 2) creating a publish geometry using some datums, 3) create a reference pattern of the PB, 4) create a copy geometry of the PB on the slave part, 5) create a feature using as the reference the PB, and then make a reference pattern. It works 100%, all the time. Copy parameters from one part to another, is "nice to have" feature, but It would make things more easy. Anyway, coping annotation features inside "copy geometry" is really COOL!!!
When we have a big asembley with 1000 pices and we work only on one subassembley it is possible to lock other assembleys for regeneration and when we want to regenerate only asembley we want? Is this posibble in Creo?
