Boundary Blend Creo 2 vs Creo 3

[CoreySusie]

Running Creo 3.0 M070 and Creo 2.0 M110.

Creo 3.0 has a "Create as Solid" and "Create as Surface" option as well as a flip arrow.  I haven't found this documented anywhere.  It doesn't appear to make a difference between the 2 options, they both produce surfaces.  Any idea why its there?  I presume it could possibly consolidate BB with Solidify when applicable, but doesn't appear to work yet... See screenshots below.

Creo 3.0

Creo 2.0

[danderson]

The boundary blend needs to create a watertight surface or watertight patch on an existing solid.

[CoreySusie]

I tried that with the solid option, still produces a surface patch only.  You have an example of it producing a solid directly out of the BB tool?

[CoreySusie]

I also find it interesting why they didn't speak of this in the Whats New in Creo 3.0 documentation but they talk about the Optimize button?

[MauroStefanovic]

Sorry, but i don't fully understand your example...could you post it?

[MauroStefanovic]

Solid boundary blend is for sheetmetal module

[rohit_rajan]

but the boundary blend for sheetmetal is already there in Creo 2.0.

Either its a bug..or someone need to dig in deep

[CoreySusie · Accepted solution]

The menu picks shouldn't be there in regular mode of Creo Parametric.  The issue has been resolved in Creo 4.0 and is working to be resolved in Creo 3.

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/spr.jsp?n=4876657&source=Case%20Viewer

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS221190&source=Case%20Viewer