I was using an offset feature to resemble a weld between a tube and a bracket.
The features looks well enough in the model but there is a strange issue with and Offset feature... it doesn't merge with intersecting solids!
Here is the feature itself:
Funny thing is, you can trim with extrude across the feaure and remove material.
So I had to cut and refill the feature. This worked okay here but was not nearly as simple in another region.
As persistent as Creo solid models are about merging solids into a single solid part, it is odd that this particular case is ignored.
This is in Creo M040. I will probably send in a case with support on this in the near future if it is still prevalent in M070.
Have you run across this?
This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.
I reported it to customer service. We will see what they have to say.
I thought of a couple of ways to do this but it is a simple representation. Extrude-cut through it and refilling fixed it, but just seemed weird to have to do this. It really is a neat trick to show a weld, don't you think 
In the original example, the weld is on a bend in the tube, and it is not normal to the surface. It wouldn't even let me wrap a sketch onto the surface. I had to offset the surface by zero and trim it with a revolve surface to even get an edge to sweep along. Of course, the weld feature didn't recognize this as a valid connection either.
This is how you get corrupt solids as exports. Not acceptable!
