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Can this part be made using a press break? Seems like that would be a super challenge.
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I was reading this, not realizing the OP was so long ago. I agree that IC has it's issues, but as far as customer support, it must have been very different back then. I have been a user since 2017 and have been extremely satisfied with the quick responses from Cary, RJ, Kevin, and the rest of the team at IC. Keep up the good work and we will keep complaining per usual hahahaha. The community is extremely responsive also, though having a dozen or so more active member couldn't hurt. Cheers.
-Spencer
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16 hours ago, HDEAR said:
Hi Spencer, looking at my post, sorry I sounded a bit patronising there!
DOH! Yes, of course, a 'cut cylinder answers all the questions, ticks all the boxes doesn't it, and no reason not to use it if you have round pipe.
The CUT SM feature is good when you have odd shapes or when you have other SM objects you'd like to cut into the original SM piece.
HarleyNo worries,
I didn't read it that way haha. Interesting, I have never noticed that cut tool before.
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1 hour ago, HDEAR said:
Hi Spencer,
I was wondering why you and the OP were using Trim instead of Cut. They achieve the same result in terms of making a hole in the SM, but with the Cutting operation you can use the TriBall to shift the cut whereas you can't use the Tribal to shift the Trim.
In my video at the end I tried engaging the Tribal on the Trim but it doesn't engage.
It seems you cannot alter the Trim or Cut size once it's made - that I can see anyhow. It would be nice to have the Cut associative to the Pipe that made the cut, of if using Triam, make the trim associative and moveable with the Triball
Harley
Good Afternoon Harley,
I was just answering his/her question more or less. I would never use trim in these circumstances, but I do use it during more complex operations where a hole block or cylinder wont help me (this usually comes down to complex chute systems where multiple flat plates are meeting at various angles). So I agree with what you are saying entirely for sure. You can even parametrically locate a hole cylinder so it will stay where you want it based on a point of interest. Most of the time I use a trim it is to determine a base point and then I replace with hole block and delete trim operation (hard to explain without a long video).
-Spencer
Edit: On second glance you are not talking about a hole cylinder at all are you? I am not familiar with the "Cut" feature. Why not use a hole cylinder? Unless I'm mistaken of course, I might be overthinking this one
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1 hour ago, Gigi said:
Thanks Spencer.
So it looks like you deleted the trim from the tree in the scene browser.
Except I tried that and despite the trims being gone from the tree, the holes are still there. I had three holes trimmed for three different fittings. I think one that was created more recently did react. Disappear when suppressed or deleted. Maybe I have to look a little more closely.
Wuld changing the sheet metal shape effect the trims editability?
I wonder if trimming is a good way to do this or if I should have just used a cut cylinder to make the hole? Or something else? Does a trim always remain a property of a part? In this case it makes senses that it would, but if I think of other trim scenarios don't seem like it necessarily would, like of you change the part after the trim, or a split...
So that is likely a display issue and not the reality of the part. Run the "recreate display" function (shown in the snip below) and my bet would be that everything fixes.
I literally have this bound to my mouse because I use it so often. Hope this helps.
-Spencer
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Good Morning Gigi,
of course you can remove a trim, I agree that would be awful if you couldn't. See attached video. (Please forgive the horrible method I used to make this box, it was rushed).
-Spencer
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Have you changed monitors lately? It almost looks like your view resolution is off (based on the large check and "x" on the bottom right). Though is likely is just a bug and the fresh install above would work in that case.
-Spencer
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Wait, are you talking about in a drawing or in 3D space for reference? In a drawing you should be able to just measure it. And if a drawing is what your talking about, what software? icd or CAXA? As you can see in the video below, the section tool in 3D space will not allow it, but it will in 2D space. A simple hole block will do the trick though.
-Spencer
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I would likely just do some old school math. Determine box wall thickness, multiply by two, subtract from overall extents of box. Done.
-Spencer
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Well, I believe this is how you do it, but it seems to be bugged out on this release.
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Like this you mean?
Ohhh, with eternally linked...my bad
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I do know this is very easy to do in ICD if that hleps.
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I think you cannot resize because the text is industry standard size. It would mess with format if you were to resize. I may be wrong, but thats what I always thought.
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Pretty awesome, I must say.
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Very Nice,
I have been wondering how that worked for a while now.
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We do this all the time! Very helpful for all sorts of applications, we love tricking IronCAD into doing things it doesn't want to.
-Spencer
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PU1 = Product Update 1. Must have this for further update (SP1) to work
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12 minutes ago, Bertrand Kim said:
Here is my results on my system with uningine on HD EXTREME,
I don't think the score is that low
Kim
That is actually a great score. My work computer gets about 6K and my laptop gets 9900. My home computer gets around 4k and its no slouch. You shouldn't be getting any performance issues at all.
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10 hours ago, aalbè said:
You can directly use the tool to cut parts or sheet metal
Very good point. Thanks for bringing that up.
-Spencer
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You can also just use the 3D text utility. Edit cross section, copy, drop hole block, edit cross section, paste. Then you are done.
-Spencer
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22 hours ago, Cary OConnor said:
It's hitting on the dimension value (which acts as the active handle). If you click and release on the other handle, it will change the focus (or hit enter to toggle the handle if you have that enabled).
Ohhh, I see what you mean. Why is that value even able to be interacted with? It seems like you should be able to just click through it to grab the handle. Is this a setting I can change? Thanks.
-Spencer
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Yeah, that is what I have been doing. Click and release then click drag, but it's just an extra click every time and I am doing this about 700 times a day (literally) on my current task. I have never had this issue before so I don't know why it is happening now.
-Spencer
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Is this intentional? It's been happening a lot to me and if it is a feature, how do I turn it off?
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Could you be clicking this edge by accident, through the top face?
Assembly Analysis
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COG generation in ICS is fairly intensive. If you do the "Sphere on COG" from the mech catalog it will work much smoother and you can dimension to it.
-Spencer