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Creo 5.0.4
Let's say I have an assembly "W". In the default appearance state, all the subcomponents are grey & in a new appearance state, lets call it "ASW1", all the subcomponents are various colors.
Now let's say I have an assembly "A" which contains assembly "W". The default appearance state for assy "A" uses the default appearance state for assy "W".
I want to create a new appearance state for assy "A" that uses assy "W" appearance state ASW1. How do I do this?
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Hello @Greg_H
This specific workflow is unfortuntakley not supported yet. We officially document this in article 259759.
Provide the ability for Part appearances to be used in new assemblies that use that part and allow the configuration to be saved.
Appearance states defined at part or sub-assembly level cannot be applied and saved in top assembly in Creo Parametric.
Steps to reproduce :
- Create a new part with an extrude feature
- Create one or two appearances states in this part different from the master appearance
- Create a new assembly > Assemble the previously created part
> Appearance states defined in part cannot be used inside assembly.
> Part can be opened in session, appearance state can be applied to part at part level and is then displayed in assembly in same session. But this configuration can never be saved.
Considering above limitation, your next quetion may be: what are the options then to achieve this in an alternate way?
=> There is so far no known "robust way" to achieve this, but following alternate approach may help:
Last question you may have is as follows: Ok. clear to me now that I cannot drive parametrically the apperance state of my top asm, based on appearance states defined in my components/sub assemblies. But can I "at least":
Answer: Yes. This is possible, and can be achieved as shown in little movie attached. I'm afraid we cannot provide much more due to current limitations documented above.
Regards,
Serge
Bumping because I'm still looking for an answer.
Rephrasing the question, if I have a part with appearance stats "Blue", "Green" and "Red" and I use the part in the assembly, how do I determine which appearance state the part will be in? If I want to create multiple appearance states in the assembly, how to I select and change the part appearance state?
Hello @Greg_H
This specific workflow is unfortuntakley not supported yet. We officially document this in article 259759.
Provide the ability for Part appearances to be used in new assemblies that use that part and allow the configuration to be saved.
Appearance states defined at part or sub-assembly level cannot be applied and saved in top assembly in Creo Parametric.
Steps to reproduce :
- Create a new part with an extrude feature
- Create one or two appearances states in this part different from the master appearance
- Create a new assembly > Assemble the previously created part
> Appearance states defined in part cannot be used inside assembly.
> Part can be opened in session, appearance state can be applied to part at part level and is then displayed in assembly in same session. But this configuration can never be saved.
Considering above limitation, your next quetion may be: what are the options then to achieve this in an alternate way?
=> There is so far no known "robust way" to achieve this, but following alternate approach may help:
Last question you may have is as follows: Ok. clear to me now that I cannot drive parametrically the apperance state of my top asm, based on appearance states defined in my components/sub assemblies. But can I "at least":
Answer: Yes. This is possible, and can be achieved as shown in little movie attached. I'm afraid we cannot provide much more due to current limitations documented above.
Regards,
Serge