PTC Technical support request
https://support.ptc.com/apps/solution_preview/solution/lang/presolution?lang=en&n=CS233195
could someone please copy and paste the answer to the above customer support case? my company doesn't have the maintenance, but we will probably get it when we transition to creo 4 sometime soon (in a couple of months probably). i would still like to know the answer before that.
basically i have a group that has a couple of features in it and is suppressed for convenience. those features (a couple of holes) are referenced by an outside pattern of datum planes (driven by dimension or table) and can't be patterned and grouped without the parent feature (impossible).
i would like to unsuppress and ungroup this group based on a yes/no in VB and then i would like to apply the reference (always) pattern to all the features in that group.
i suspect it could also be done by a mapkey...
also, is it possible to change a pattern type with VB or mapkey? i would like to change a known (and created) pattern of model datums from dimension to table, if it's needed.



