This is truly a glorious day. I happened to install Wildfire 3.0
Build M020 so I could use the new flange features that were
added. While playing around with Wildfire 3.0 (I have held off
installing as I was waiting for a little more stability) I happened to
try a cutout feature on a sheet metal part and it worked.
The cutout feature has been incorporated into the Merge/Inheritance feature.
Previously, cutout features would not work with sheet metal parts. Now that it does, this opens up whole new worlds.
See, we had wanted to use a cutout feature to allow redefining cutouts
in sheet metal parts just by changing a reference part. The only way we
could do this was by modeling the entire sheet metal part as a solid,
then converting it. This was unstable, due to the complicated
shapes we needed and the fact that we needed to supress walls depending
on user input.
Now that the part is a sheet metal part from "birth", these instabilities all go away.
What took me about three hours to model only took me 1/2 hour.
I am now in a one-sided love affair with PTC. These guys answered
the call and have greatly improved the sheet metal package in this
release. I suggest all you sheet metal guys check it out.
This build is also fairly stable. I had no random crashes or
problems, other than one minor bug in the new flange tool update.
Happy modeling!!!
Build M020 so I could use the new flange features that were
added. While playing around with Wildfire 3.0 (I have held off
installing as I was waiting for a little more stability) I happened to
try a cutout feature on a sheet metal part and it worked.
The cutout feature has been incorporated into the Merge/Inheritance feature.
Previously, cutout features would not work with sheet metal parts. Now that it does, this opens up whole new worlds.
See, we had wanted to use a cutout feature to allow redefining cutouts
in sheet metal parts just by changing a reference part. The only way we
could do this was by modeling the entire sheet metal part as a solid,
then converting it. This was unstable, due to the complicated
shapes we needed and the fact that we needed to supress walls depending
on user input.
Now that the part is a sheet metal part from "birth", these instabilities all go away.
What took me about three hours to model only took me 1/2 hour.
I am now in a one-sided love affair with PTC. These guys answered
the call and have greatly improved the sheet metal package in this
release. I suggest all you sheet metal guys check it out.
This build is also fairly stable. I had no random crashes or
problems, other than one minor bug in the new flange tool update.
Happy modeling!!!