Creating Features in a Hybrid Design Environment

In a body created in a hybrid design environment, the order of apparition of features in the tree is consistent with the steps of creation of the design. Creating a feature inside a current body often produces automatic replace mechanisms based on absorption rules.

Concretely speaking, when creating a new feature in a current body, the geometry that pointed to the feature preceding the new feature is redirected to the new feature you are creating. Due to this automatic replace mechanism, you may encounter behaviors you now need to become familiar with.

Both examples below compare two results you can obtain depending on whether you work in a hybrid design environment or not. Just keep in mind that when creating a feature inside a body, whatever its location in the tree, that feature absorbs the geometry of the feature preceding it in the tree as illustrated in the following scenarios.

This task shows you how to:

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About Creating Bodies in a Hybrid Design Environment

Create a Pocket at a Given Location Inside the Body

You can create a pocket at a given location inside the body.

This first scenario provides a basic example of the absorption rule prevailing in a hybrid design environment.

  1. Create a new part ensuring that Enable hybrid design and Create a geometrical set options are on. For detailed information on these options, see the Customizing section of this guide.
  2. Create a pad, a hole then a fillet on the pad in PartBody set as the current body.
  3. In Generative Shape Design create an intersection between the pad and plane xy.
  4. Create a pocket.
  5. If now you decide to edit your Intersect feature, you will see that the pocket which was created just after the pad is to be taken into consideration.

    Hybrid Design Environment:

    When editing Intersect.1, you can see that the initial specifications have been replaced: Pad.1 initially used to compute the intersection is no longer taken into consideration. Because we work in a hybrid design environment, Pad.1 has been absorbed by Pocket.1. As a consequence, Pocket.1 is a specification of Intersect.1.

    Non-hybrid Design Environment:

    When editing Intersect.1, the initial specifications remain the same: Pad.1 initially used to compute the intersection is no still taken into consideration.

Create a Pocket As the Last Feature of a Body

You can create a pocket as the last feature of a body.

This scenario shows you how the automatic replace mechanism affects the creation of a feature.

  1. Create a new part ensuring that Enable hybrid design and Create a geometrical set options are on.
  2. Create a pad in PartBody set as the current body.
  3. Set Geometrical Set1 as current.
  4. In Generative Shape Design extract an edge of the pad.
  5. Back in Part Design, create a pocket using the side face as shown below:



    Once the pocket is created, you can note that the extracted edge is trimmed and shortened by the pocket. Conversely, in a non-hybrid design environment, the extracted edge would not be affected by the pocket creation.

    Hybrid Design Environment:

    The extracted line is no longer continuous.

    Non-hybrid Design Environment:

    The extracted line remains continuous.