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GrahameWard1-Visitor
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March 21, 2013
Question

Cross hatching a section in an assembly

  • March 21, 2013
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I'm trying to get my head around the editing of x-sections in assemblies.

I have some saved section files. Let's call them "y45" and "y135". I used to have a mapkey that would retrieve "y45" from the library, apply it to the 1st section in the assembly, then go to the next section, retrieve "y135" and apply it, and so on. If I had an assembly with 20 parts I would just hit this mapkey 10 times. Now this wouldn't be perfect, because some sectioned parts wouldn't always go well together visually, but it was a start.

Is there anyway I can do this with Creo? It seems I have to picked the parts manually that I want to apply a particular library hatch pattern to. This is a pain if there are 20 plus parts in an assembly and some of them are not so easy to select. Is there some way to scroll through the parts in the section?


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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
March 21, 2013

It seems when they changed the interface, they neglected to add the "next" and "previous" selections from the xtop menues. Bummer!

I would think this warrants an Idea in the Idea section of the forum

Right click and the model tree seem to work fine for this but it would be nice to just step through the parts as we use to.

I assume you are talking about doing this in assembly mode, not drawing mode?

    GrahameWard1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    March 21, 2013

    Yes, assembly mode. Either actually. In WF the interface Of "next" and "previous" is the same in drawing mode and in assembly mode.

    Of course, if I am doing my job in the logical order I would do it in the assembly and it would show up that way in my drawing.

    TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    March 21, 2013

    I just played with it some more. This is a horrible interface. When you select an item, it doesn't take on the attributes of what is currently assigned, it assigns what is currently highlighted in the dialog. A good way to loose good information! This has got to be a serious oversight in programming!

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