Hello!
I am a new user of CREO2 M150 (degree project whilst working full time with 3 kids - please take pitty!) and a previous ACAD modeler (culture shock!!) and have just blown my decent laptop to pieces so I am now using a pentium3 64bit with 2GB of RAM if that has any bearring? (no chance of a new one, so it has to work on it!) - Bad day! oh and this work is due in with a mega-report by thursday!!!!!
I have a basic bezzel part that I need to create a mould for; I create a block around my model/part but then either my mind, ability or computer fails at the parting surface! The model has appropriate drafts etc and the parting surface I had in mind was at the top of a "round" (fillet in ACAD speak) on the bottom face of a flange (so there would be the round and bottom face on one half of the mould but the majority of the flange would be in the other half):
I am attempting to split the block with an extrude (parting surface>extrude) then I set the placement (placement>define) I set a side wall of my block as the sketch plane but wish to use the coordinate system as a reference - it wont let me select it - so I selct othe faces and solve to procede (is this wrong?)
Selecting the references is where I am really falling down; as I mentioned I want the split to be part way up the "part" at the top of a round thus defining the split as a normal plane to the surface I am splitting (rather than paralell to a flat face), I want to select the top of the round and then 2 vertical adjacent faces of the block then solve to define my split - well I can't do it! I can't selct the top of the round, I can't get it to take a whole chain I am unsure of the other splitting techniques so I am stuck and in need of your charity to get me out of my self-made hole!
Please guide me through this!!!
Thank you in advance
Dave
