Promote Body Colors
Promote Body Colors
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We do hole and slot milling operations for connectors on off the shelf electronic boxes, our current method is to define these operations in the box part directly which we then save as a new part, we then specify the box manufacturers article number as the part material for purchasing.
We now want to separate the machining from the actual box part, thus I am investigating modeling methods to accomplish this which brings me to promote body which is something I have not used much before.
Promote body seems promising except that the promoted body loses any face colors specified on the parent body, is there some setting for this or is this a case of working as intended for some reason?
Part with two bodies and specified face colors

The two bodies are promoted one level and promptly loses any face colors.

We now want to separate the machining from the actual box part, thus I am investigating modeling methods to accomplish this which brings me to promote body which is something I have not used much before.
Promote body seems promising except that the promoted body loses any face colors specified on the parent body, is there some setting for this or is this a case of working as intended for some reason?
Part with two bodies and specified face colors

The two bodies are promoted one level and promptly loses any face colors.






RE: Promote Body Colors
If I caught your idea the right way - you need to promote a body from the component level to the assembly level in order to separate the machining from a design part. If we look deeper into the Promote Body mechanism, we will find that it works nearly the same, as WAVE-copy is, i could say more - if you double click on the promoted feature in the Part Navigator - you would be able to change it to the WAVE-link. After that you would be able to change the resulted WAVE-link option to inherit display options from the parent. I'd rather choose WAVE-links instead of Promote Body, they are nearly the same- Promote creates an associative copy and hides the original object.
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RE: Promote Body Colors
RE: Promote Body Colors
If it is about the visibility - you're able to use the Hide Original option while in WAVE Geometry Linker.
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RE: Promote Body Colors
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If you go Preferences - Modeling, there is a setting for
"Display properties for new geometry : - For extracted and linked geometry : Parent object or Part default.
The default is Parent Object , the question is whether Siemens will treat a Promoted Body as "Linked or Extracted", or if it's "Promoted"...
Call GTAC.
Regards,
Tomas
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