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ByDesign12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
January 12, 2023
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How to use "Seed & Boundary" to select for Appearances ??

  • January 12, 2023
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The "Seed & Boundary" (was Surf & Bound) is great functionality.  Where did it go for selecting surfaces to apply appearance?

 

I use "Seed & Boundary" to select surface for model actions like copy surf.  I know how to use "Shift" for that.  The same technique won't work for selecting surfaces in appearances.  Hoping someone can tell me how.  Did they take it out?  Or is it just buried in the mountain of inconsistencies?  Now it seems like you have to go in and carefully select all the (maybe 100's) of little surfaces manually one by one.  Please tell me what I'm missing.  Thank you.

Best answer by tbraxton

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Select the geometry first using seed and bound. Then apply the appearance while the selection is active.

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tbraxton
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22-Sapphire II
January 12, 2023

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Select the geometry first using seed and bound. Then apply the appearance while the selection is active.

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ByDesign12-AmethystAuthor
12-Amethyst
January 13, 2023

Thank you very much.  Just tried it, and it works.  Really appreciate your time to make the quick video.

 

Chalk another one up for the ridiculously inconsistent User Interface.  First "Seed & Boundary" is not evident.  If you don't know it's there, you'll never find it.  Second, some things are action then select, others (even this exact same action) are only achieved as select then action.  Maybe I'll eventually become callous to this stupidity, but for right now . . . . it flies in the face of everything taught about good UI.

tbraxton
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tbraxton22-Sapphire II
22-Sapphire II
January 13, 2023

The selection method is documented (on page 12) in the last quick reference card that was published (Creo 4) and it follows the object action paradigm. The UI is inconsistent in look and feel and the object action paradigm is not used universally. The current help files are cursory at best in most areas and are not kept current. I still have hard copy manuals from Pro/E that are more useful than the current help files even though the UI has changed.

 

Having said this, I still choose to use Creo over the other available MCAD packages. 

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