[Br...] Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Is there any way to move a group of features to another area of a part without mirroring? In the attached photo I have a cavity block with two identical cavities that are 2 inches off center of the part. After programing one cavity is there any way I can group all the features together, copy and then shift them to the other cavity? The form is not mirrored only shifted by 2 inches each way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Za...] Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 You can select the features and group them together. Copy and past the group of features and adjust X. Not sure that is saving you any time though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Me...] Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 One way... Copy all the features you want to copy/move to a new location to create a second set of identical features. Copy the alignment that the first set of features are in. Go to the special tab of the new alignment and make adjustments/offsets etc. to move it to the new location you want the features. Change the alignment of the second set of features to the new alignment. Be sure and check "Keep Position" before you change the alignment. This will move them to the new location. After you can go back and change their alignment back to whatever alignment you want. Just be sure to uncheck "Keep Position" or they will move to the new alignment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Za...] Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Why can't he just adjust from in the copied features? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Me...] Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 If you change the alignment you can use the paintbrush tool and move multiple features with one click and you only have to key in the offsets once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[To...] Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Please sign in to view this quote. Yes, he could just edit the values, but on a more complex move, Robert's method is one I use all of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Fa...] Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Please sign in to view this quote. this is the best method, good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mi...] Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Nice, I like that... I'll have to remember that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mi...] Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 ok, I've now tried that move on a group of features and it worked pretty well. Some features I had to adjust because of slight differences like a wall was .080 further in one group so the wall and associated rad's had to move also. No big deal. But, now here's the problem I found with copying and moving stuff, the surface doesn't get highlighted and I can't pick and autofill it when filling in characteristics. I can search for it and enter it but I can't pick it. I will run cad model comparison and the surfaces come up as "outside tolerance". They look good and I put another feature over it for comparison and it all looks good but the copied feature is still not highlighted and considered out of tolerance. Is there a fix or do I live with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[To...] Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Please sign in to view this quote. Maybe there is way to associate the correct surface to the copied feature but I live with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mi...] Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 yep, that's what I've been doing so far. Sometimes I delete the feature and re-do. Especially if it's a big program and I don't want to hunt for features. Was hoping there might have been a trick in there somewhere to learn 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jo...] Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 What about Power Feature ? Has anyone used this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mi...] Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 no, I haven't worked with them any but they are interesting. Wouldn't that be like a mini program to check a feature or "groups of features", saved as a separate program? Then in a program where a part might have several of those "groups of features" or many parts with same or similar "groups of features" you can recall that mini program as a power feature. I wonder how close they have to be. Some of the walls in my features change .080" which also moved my corner radii. I don't think I could use a single power feature for all of them. Or could I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[SH...] Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Is there any option moving with mirror??. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Lo...] Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I think you can utilize macro for something like this. I have never use it, but thought it was for cases like this. I may be wrong though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[SH...] Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Please sign in to view this quote. To be honest lam wet behind ears in macro programming.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[No...] Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Please sign in to view this quote. Out of tolerance just means that the distance between the feature and the CAD face it is tied to is greater than the tolerance value you set in the CAD comparison window. This information is sometimes misleading as it also applies to features whose nominals (e.g. size of a plane) were edited after creation. But in your case it tells you that the copied features were moved. They are of course still tied to their old CAD faces. To change that, you need to select the 'out of tolerance' features in CAD comparison and click Apply. But this procedure is known to fail sometimes or in certain Calypso versions.If it refuses to mate the feature with the new face ➡️ live with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mi...] Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 yeah, I tried that. It didn't work. Since I knew that I was going to have to use those features often and I didn't want to search for them every time I just deleted them and did them one at a time. The funny thing is, I copied the first group to make the second. After a few edits that one was excepted and everything was in tolerance and associated but I had to make a few changes because a wall moved in the second set. I then copied the second set and moved it 2 times because the other 3rd and 4th sets were the same as the 2nd and those are the ones that didn't work. Probably had something to do with that. Maybe I should have moved the first one 4 times and then just edited them one set at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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