Question of the day

[DeanLong]

The Blend Tool. (parallel, rotational, general)

Does anyone use this lonely feature any longer?

Personally, I have notcreated one since basic training in 1989. Would that make me Un-blended?

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[DeanLong]

Sorry all...I thought I was in the ETC forum when I posted. Don't shoot!

In Reply to Dean Long:

The Blend Tool. (parallel, rotational, general)

Does anyone use this lonely feature any longer?

Personally, I have notcreated one since basic training in 1989. Would that make me Un-blended?

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[StephenW]

It's a valid question. I bet someone gets some info from it. If nothing at all, someone will learn that there is a blend tool.

I built one or 2 blends for a couple of parts I did for sheetmetal, well, what I call sheetmetal, more like bent plate, ½" thick "sheetmetal" (chuckle)... Then I recreated them in other methods because I didn't have the design control I wanted for the parts but it helped me design the part.

[dgschaefer]

You and me both. I had a new user ask me about how to use the swept
blend tool, I said I don't. I said I can count on one hand (maybe two)
the number of blends, swept or not, I've made in 16 years of Pro/E.



Doug Schaefer

[rrich]

I have used the rotational blend 6 or so times within the last year,
parallel blend 15 or so in 12 months. Never used general in 25+ years. I
use Swept blend and Variable section sweep quite a bit.



I think the biggest problem with the blend is that it is not so apparent on
how to create or dimension something like that.



Anyhow these are primarily used in the plastics industry to make complex
shapes.



Regards,

Ron Rich

[BobFrindt]

Same here,

Boundary Blend and VSS cover almost any shape I need to model. Rotational,
parallel and general have only been used during training.

Bob Frindt
Sr. Designer
Parker Hannifin Corporation
Parker Aerospace
Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division
8940 Tyler Boulevard
Mentor, OH 44060 USA
direct (440) 266-2359

[dgallup]

Boundary blend is greyed out on my insert menu, must need some surfacing module I don't have in my old license. VSS always seems so complicated, unintuitive and just overkill for a simple little blend. I use the parallel blend for a lot of molded shapes. I can make in one feature a shape that includes protrusions and multiple draft angles all of which will show up properly on the drawing (the section dimensions, not draft angles but it's rarely useful to put small angles on a drawing anyway, better in a note). The rotational and general blends not so much.

In Reply to Robert Frindt:

Same here,

Boundary Blend and VSS cover almost any shape I need to model. Rotational,
parallel and general have only been used during training.

Bob Frindt
Sr. Designer
Parker Hannifin Corporation
Parker Aerospace
Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division
8940 Tyler Boulevard
Mentor, OH 44060 USA
direct (440) 266-2359
cell: (216) 990-8711
fax: (440) 266-2311
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www.parker.com

PTC quality philosophy: We've upped our quality standards. Up yours.

[rrich]

Boundary blend greyed out? This must be some really old license.
Pro/surface has been available in the most basic lowest cost Foundation
package, pre wildfire I believe I think isquared brought in surfacing as
standard. Style surface I would believe you need the high end surfacing
module of proe for that.



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Regards,

Ron Rich

[dgschaefer]

'Style' or ISDX is its own add on module, but I think surfacing
(boundary blend) has been in the foundation package as long as there has
been a foundation package. That was introduced at least 11 years ago,
probably more like 12-14. I remember going through the negotiations to
'upgrade' to foundation at my old company and I've been here 10.5 years.



Doug Schaefer

[dgallup]

Nope, we have the original foundation package and it has no surfacing. Interestingly, certain dashboard commands that toggle between solids and surfaces will create surfaces as well as the edit/fill command. I can also select surfaces and make copies. So PTC has let little bits of surface capabilities creap in, but not boundary blend In general though, I have no need for surfacing.

In Reply to Doug Schaefer:

'Style' or ISDX is its own add on module, but I think surfacing
(boundary blend) has been in the foundation package as long as there has
been a foundation package.  That was introduced at least 11 years ago,
probably more like 12-14.  I remember going through the negotiations to
'upgrade' to foundation at my old company and I've been here 10.5 years.



Doug Schaefer
Senior Project Engineer, Mechanical

PTC quality philosophy: We've upped our quality standards.  Up yours.

[pfariello]

As I was clicking thru the Creo Parametric fundamentals online training it reminded me of this post and made me chuckle... with all new fancy ribbon interface, this feature still pull up the old menu manager.....

Patrick Fariello