Hello everyone and welcome to blog post #20 in this multibody blog series.
Today’s blog is about illustrating a use case around geometry re-use that became enabled with the new appearance (and reference) propagations in Creo 10.0’s Body Boolean and Split Body features. (see Multibody: Appearance and Reference Propagation for Boolean Operations (ptc.com) )
In essence we added two new options to Body Booleans as shown in the image below.
Those options allow you to control color propagation and reference propagation. That means for the below example, that when you subtract the orange and white bodies from the green eyelet part, we can propagate the color to the corresponding mating cut faces, and transfer references from the original to the new surfaces, so that for the attached annotations automatically move to the cut surfaces.
So, what is this good for?
An example use case for this might be a scenario where you have standardized cut-outs for a connector where you model the cut-outs as fully detailed and annotated bodies in a library part.
These bodies will then be inserted along with their annotations into the connector part where we then subtract and pattern them. During the subtract operation we can then not only create the target cut-out geometry, but also have the colors and the annotation references be transferred to the cut-out surfaces. All the sematic references of these annotations would thus continue to show in a semantic query for selected annotations.
Here you see a video illustrating the workflow for the above example in Creo 10.0
Thanks for reading. I hope it was informative and this is a valuable use case for you.
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Enjoy!....Martin
