Best way to utilize top down design for mating enclosure halves without having the Adv Asm Extension
Best way to utilize top down design for mating enclosure halves without having the Adv Asm Extension
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So I'm designing a tool that has two clam shell halves to it. I designed the overall final product as a skeleton, and now I want to use this skeleton to propagate the geometry to the halves, however we do not have the advanced assembly extension here so copy/publish geometry is not available. What do you guys think would be the best way to go about this? Should I have the skeleton model as just a generic and then use a remove material extrude to split in half with two instances dictating which side was removed? Only thing about that is then each half carries a bunch of excessive data. This part is pretty ergonomic with a lot of surface merges and sweeps so it's not as easy as just selecting the outside profile as a skeleton to extrude and then go from there.





RE: Best way to utilize top down design for mating enclosure halves without having the Adv Asm Extension
Other than that, you might create the parts in the context of an assembly and use copy-paste from surfaces in the assembly to the parts.
Or try exporting the features as STEP or IGES and import them into the parts as dumb surfaces.
Also look to PTC Community as well. www.ptcusercommunity.com
RE: Best way to utilize top down design for mating enclosure halves without having the Adv Asm Extension
RE: Best way to utilize top down design for mating enclosure halves without having the Adv Asm Extension
If you can't get the tools, look for a new job. Trust me. Not buying tools is a bad sign.