So I just had our Creo rep in here and we were talking about simulate. He was talking about shell pairs and a bunch of other stuff that I don't really understand yet, because I haven't used it much. My question is, should I be starting my part as sheet metal if it's simply a flat plate with some holes in it?
Before we went to creo I hated doing that, because the only way to add material was to add a flange at 0° which was a huge pain. Also converting to sheet metal made things harder to select to change them.
Both ways got what I needed done, because I wasn't doing any type of strength analysis in the software (we just build everything heavy 🙂
Now they've added the planar command to add material and that seems to work pretty well, I could probably start flat parts as sheet metal. Would this make things easier for me in the future if we decided that we need to do some strength analysis on models? Below is an example of the type of part that I am talking about.
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