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Can I apply an appearance to an assembly feature?

Question asked by Brian Dalton on Apr 20, 2015
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We have appearances applied to individual parts, but we need to add cuts to them at the assembly level, and we'd like to change the appearance of the cut faces in the assembly so that they are easily distinguishable from the original (uncut) parts.

I tried applying the new appearance to the face created by the cut feature, and also to the feature itself, but it won't take. It's easy to apply a different appearance to an individual face within a part, but when the face is created by a cut feature applied at the assembly level, it doesn't want to play ball with me.

Is this possible? Hopefully someone has a trick to make this happen - my experience with appearances is limited at best.

Thanks.

SW 2014 sp5

Win 7 Pro

Brian Dalton Apr 21, 2015 2:32 PM

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OK, I got it to work now. I was trying to apply the appearance to individual faces of cut features that had been added in the assembly itself. That doesn't work, but you can add the appearance to the entire cut feature and it works fine. It's easier to do it anyway, since you can get many faces at once.

Note that I'm working only with features that are created in the assembly. For features that are native to a model that has been inserted into the assembly, changing appearances on individual faces works fine. For some reason, appearances of features added at the assembly level can only be manipulated in their entirety, and not on a face by face basis.

Thanks for the help.

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Deepak Gupta Apr 20, 2015 1:04 PM

You should be able to apply/change appearances of the faces/features in assembly. Are you getting any errors?

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Brian Dalton @ Deepak Gupta on Apr 20, 2015 1:13 PM

There was no error, it simply didn't apply any appearances.

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Jamil Snead @ Brian Dalton on Apr 20, 2015 3:21 PM

It works for me, but after some experimentation I think that any appearance added to a part at the assembly level will supersede assembly feature appearances. This seems backwards to me because in parts the feature appearances supersede the part appearance, but it is opposite in an assembly. So make sure you don't have an appearance applied to the entire part at the assembly level. Having an appearance for the part at the part level is fine and the assembly feature appearance will show on top of it.

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Karen Bodily Apr 20, 2015 6:24 PM

I don't know if you have tried this but when I apply appearances to an assembly it never show for me until I do a force regen or hit Ctrl+Q on your keyboard. It is worth a try.

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Brian Dalton Apr 21, 2015 2:32 PM

Thanks for the help.

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Deepak Gupta @ Brian Dalton on Apr 21, 2015 3:05 PM

That is correct behavior as you can apply/change appearance of the feature as whole and not face by face.

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Brian Dalton @ Deepak Gupta on Apr 23, 2015 6:20 PM

When I drag an appearance and drop it on the assembly feature I am offered the option to apply it to the face, so naturally I assumed that I could apply it to the face. Might be a good thing for the SW interface group to look at.

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Deepak Gupta @ Brian Dalton on Apr 24, 2015 9:33 AM

Brain, that is a correct behavior though it doesn't apply color or show preview if you're selecting a face. If you select the feature or body it works fine (checked attached video for better explanation if you've not tried that).

I've found few SPRs reported for this: 405367 and 609398 Please vote for them.

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Deepak Gupta Apr 20, 2015 1:04 PM
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You should be able to apply/change appearances of the faces/features in assembly. Are you getting any errors?
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- Brian Dalton @ Deepak Gupta on Apr 20, 2015 1:13 PM
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  There was no error, it simply didn't apply any appearances.
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  - Jamil Snead @ Brian Dalton on Apr 20, 2015 3:21 PM
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    It works for me, but after some experimentation I think that any appearance added to a part at the assembly level will supersede assembly feature appearances. This seems backwards to me because in parts the feature appearances supersede the part appearance, but it is opposite in an assembly. So make sure you don't have an appearance applied to the entire part at the assembly level. Having an appearance for the part at the part level is fine and the assembly feature appearance will show on top of it.
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Karen Bodily Apr 20, 2015 6:24 PM
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I don't know if you have tried this but when I apply appearances to an assembly it never show for me until I do a force regen or hit Ctrl+Q on your keyboard. It is worth a try.
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Brian Dalton Apr 21, 2015 2:32 PM
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OK, I got it to work now. I was trying to apply the appearance to individual faces of cut features that had been added in the assembly itself. That doesn't work, but you can add the appearance to the entire cut feature and it works fine. It's easier to do it anyway, since you can get many faces at once.

Note that I'm working only with features that are created in the assembly. For features that are native to a model that has been inserted into the assembly, changing appearances on individual faces works fine. For some reason, appearances of features added at the assembly level can only be manipulated in their entirety, and not on a face by face basis.

Thanks for the help.
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- Deepak Gupta @ Brian Dalton on Apr 21, 2015 3:05 PM
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  That is correct behavior as you can apply/change appearance of the feature as whole and not face by face.
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  - Brian Dalton @ Deepak Gupta on Apr 23, 2015 6:20 PM
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    When I drag an appearance and drop it on the assembly feature I am offered the option to apply it to the face, so naturally I assumed that I could apply it to the face. Might be a good thing for the SW interface group to look at.
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    - Deepak Gupta @ Brian Dalton on Apr 24, 2015 9:33 AM
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      Brain, that is a correct behavior though it doesn't apply color or show preview if you're selecting a face. If you select the feature or body it works fine (checked attached video for better explanation if you've not tried that).
      
      I've found few SPRs reported for this: 405367 and 609398 Please vote for them.
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