CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Christian Mittermeier — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 05:20:55 GMT

Hi Carl,

Thank you for this information.

I have been waiting for more than two years now, but good to hear it's still being fixed this year.

Regards,

Christian

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Carl Myhill — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:21:17 GMT

Hi Christian

This issue resulted in Defect 658043, which is currently open/scheduled for Update 14.

Regards

Carl

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Christian Mittermeier — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 13:22:24 GMT

Hi Carl,

Any new informations about this issue?

Thanks,

Christian

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Christian Mittermeier — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 11:01:57 GMT

communities.bentley.com/.../3D-Schurre.dgn

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Carl Myhill — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 10:46:20 GMT

Hi Christian,

Please could you send us your Model for review, if need be we can added it to the Defect\Enhancement to ensure this example is also captured.

Thanks
Carl

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Christian Mittermeier — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 07:19:54 GMT

Hi Carl and Diego,

Thanks for your answer. Yes it's a possible solution for some faces but not for all.

If I want to open a face at the back side of my example Solid which has a complex shape,

it opens the hole back side instead of only the selected face.

communities.bentley.com/.../modify-face.mp4

So I hope a Tool for adding open faces will be added to future releases.

Regards,

Christian

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Diego Pinate — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:33:20 GMT

Hello Christian,

As Carl replied, this is a defect we have but if you use Modify Face and use AccuDraw to snap to the next face so that the thickness of the face "becomes exactly 0", you can get rid of the faces that fail if dragged beyond the next face in the solid. Here's an example of what I managed to do with your test case and Modify Face by snapping with AccuDraw to the next face:

The behavior is incorrect and will be addressed but hopefully this method can provide you with a temporary work-around for your issue.

Regards,

Diego

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Carl Myhill — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 11:39:32 GMT

I have filed Defect/Enhancement 658043 to have the ability to open any selected face using the Modify Solid tool as shown in this example it will not open all faces of an extruded profile that has been thin shelled.

communities.bentley.com/.../ModifySolid.mp4

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Christian Mittermeier — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 06:26:14 GMT

Hi Carl,

Yes of course, this is a possible way.
My intention always is to minimize the numbers of Features as much as possible.

But what about my first point, to add another open face to an existing Shell Feature?
Is this possible in any way?

Thanks,
Christian

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Carl Myhill — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:42:19 GMT

Would the ' Modify Solid ' tool not work in this instance ?

communities.bentley.com/.../modify-solid.mp4

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Christian Mittermeier — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:13:29 GMT

Hi Carl,

Thanks for your answer. It might work for simple solids (like my example) but,

I have a much more complex solid which is driven by a parametric 2D profile.

And at this solid I need different thicknesses of the faces.

For this case it was very easy useful in V8i to be able to change the thickness of the faces.

Will this change possibility be added in a future release?

Regards,

Christian

RE: CEU4 - Editing Shell Feature V8i vs Editing Shell Feature CE

Carl Myhill — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 11:24:16 GMT

As an alternative workflow rather, you could place two solids, one to represent the solid and the other for the cut.

Then use the Boolean Difference Feature tool to subtract the cut from the solid.

Once this is done you can use the Element Selection tool to select the solid and then its cutting solid. The handles can then be manipulated to reflect the required distance / direction required ( a specific value can be entered using accudraw ).

communities.bentley.com/.../boolean.mp4