Yea... thats excactly what I think!
Autodesk definitely has the best platform when it comes to ease of use. But
we want the power functions now - more surface tools (not construction
surfaces) and lofting, shelling and filleting of that can be improved!
I am not complaining guys... just asking for more! Thats what a paying
customer has to do???
Regards,
Pieter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rory"
Newsgroups: autodesk.inventor.6
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Surface design tools for the future??
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> "jong" wrote in message
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> > Once the surfaces are in the part If I remember right from a dealer demo
> you need to promote them to make a solid panel
> > then you can make an idw file with a nice shaded views of the panel and
> add the key dimensions.
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> Jong, what I think Pieter was saying was:-
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> You can't create drawing views of either
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> 1) Imported surfaces (Unless you thicken or stitch into a solid but you
> might not have much chance with complex parts)
> This applies whether they're promoted or not.
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> 2) Solids which have had faces deleted and are now surface models. (Unless
> you thicken or heal and solidify them)
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> This really needs to be added, as it's something MDT has done for years.
> Also, why aren't surfaces in ipt files saved if they're not promoted? If I
> spend 2 hours importing an IGES file, I want to save it before I do
anything
> else, but if it isn't promoted, you end up with an empty file!
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> This workflow of importing surfaces and having to promote to be able to
save
> them is in my opinion very wrong - When you save a file, it should look
just
> like it did when you saved it when you re-open it. I can't think of any
> other system that has "construction geometry" which gets discarded on
> saving.
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> I know the quick answer is "promote them" but it can take a long time on
> complex surface models, and it's easy for users to forget to do this. Auto
> stitch and promote helps, but it increases the time taken to open the file
> by a large amount.
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> Whilst I'm on the subject of surfaces, I'd also like to see :-
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> 1) Quicker importing of IGES files. MDT is still a lot quicker to import
the
> same IGES (or STEP for that matter) file as Inventor.
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> 2) Be able to colour surfaces - Having them all yellow is difficult to
work
> with on a complex model.
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> (complaining mode off) - Inventor 6 is a definite step in the right
> direction to having integrated solids and surface editing, but a bit of
fine
> tuning wouldn't go amiss.
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> Cheers
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> Rory
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