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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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tbraxton22-Sapphire IIAnswer
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.

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pausob19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
January 13, 2023

The reference card is very handy; something that should be readily available to the new (or returning) users - out-of-the-box.  I'd say it should be easily accessed when clicking the (?) button in the corner.

 

I suppose painting surfaces does work both ways (object-action vs action-object) but only when using "one-by-one" method of picking surfaces.

These days, I find I use the dialog-box method on page 13 as I try to use the rule-based sets for more robust features.

The appearance tool hasn't been updated to utilize that method, but as with many things, Creo is a work in progress...

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bduncan17-Peridot
17-Peridot
March 4, 2023

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