layer status propogation for SIMP REPS of assembly skeletons do not function
- June 4, 2024
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Since this a very advanced (many will think unsupported) use case, I will start with I used this functionality for over a decade design space equipment for Lockheed Martin and United Launch Alliance. It definitely did work perfectly up until I stopped using commercial code with Creo 9.0. So, I'm pretty sure we're talking a bug here... and a very important one for my use case because all my designs start with CAE models that work for FEA and rigid-body analyses and then, once a concept is viable, I use those to drive production geometry. For the large vehicle models I do almost all of my upfront work is with curves and surfaces to represent ground and mechanism components AND support quick FEA using beams and shells. Nuff said for importance.
If you retrieve "PD-TM05A_ASKEL01.ASM" as master rep you can hide and show layers and the status works just fine. The most pertinent layer is called "01-ALL_EXT_COPY_GEOMS". However, if you change the rep of that same assembly to "RBA01" you can't get anything at all to work with layers. The screen is blank with no features showing from any model. Nothing you can do with layers (that I've found) will make anything visible.
I guess I'm looking for confirmation from others that they get the same behavior and agree it's a bug. Because there is definitely at least some chance that there are some new config options or something that I don't know about that weren't operative when I was working on the commercial license. Thanks.