Round Handling in Draft in Creo Direct

You can select surfaces as references for the Draft tool even if they have adjacent rounds or chamfers. Rounds and chamfers are automatically detected and highlighted in a different color. Rounds and chamfer handling is then applied as it is for other Creo Direct modeling tools such as Move and Offset. This allows you to apply drafts to models that already contain rounds or chamfers at the boundaries of the to-be-drafted surfaces.

Tips:

• If the geometry selection contains inlying rounds, you can control their inclusion or exclusion from the draft operation by selecting

on the floating dashboard. It is typically faster and easier to include the inlying rounds in the selection first, and then to select

to exclude them from the drafted geometry.

Select on the floating dashboard to exclude inlying rounds. Inlying rounds then appear in green and are treated as rounds.
Click on the floating dashboard to stop the select operation and to include inlying rounds. Inlying rounds appear in orange, the modified geometry color, and are included in the draft.

• You can specify a round surface chain as a hinge for the draft operation. This can be helpful such as in the example below:

• Click or clear the Create round/chamfer geometry check box on the floating dashboard. When this check box is selected, rounds and chamfers are recreated after the draft operation. When this check box is cleared, rounds and chamfers are removed.

Limitations:

• This enhancement enables round and chamfer handling based on previously available functionality of the Draft feature. It does not extend the general functionality of the Draft feature, such as to drafting previously drafted surfaces.

• This enhancement supports round and chamfer types that are currently supported within Creo Direct.

Does this replace existing functionality?

Configuration options associated with this functionality:

To be determined.