locating hidden solid & surface bodies in Pro-E (similar to SolidWorks)
I have a Pro-E question that may have once know the answer to, but I do not remember as I have mostly been using SolidWorks lately. In a SolidWorks part, a folder for both surface bodies and solid bodies exists (below the annotations folder) listing all the surface & solid bodies contained in the part model. The reason this is important is if some surfaces need to be merged, you can go directly to the surface bodies in the folder, select and then merge them together. You always know how many surface and solid bodies exist in a part at a glance.
Concerning Pro-E (WF 3.0 or 4.0), what is the most direct method for locating finding all unmerged surfaces in a Pro-E part where some may not be visually obvious (example: obstructed by a solid body) when using hybrid modeling techniques (solids & surfaces)? As I do not see any folders in Pro-E indicating the number of solid or surface bodies, how do you go about locating one that may be hidden from view?
Also, I have heard in Pro-E WF 4.0 that multiple surface bodies can be merged at one time (Pro-E WF 3.0 only allows two at a time), is this correct as it would reduce the number of features in a part? In SW, I can knit several surfaces using one feature, so I wanted to verify this is also true in Pro-E.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Chris Thompson, CSWP Appian Way Technologies LLC Powell, Ohio 43065 www.appianwaytech.com (614) 595-3751
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