"David Janes" wrote in message news:ff1Ih.12683$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe12.phx... > "kenny" wrote > Working on part [a] point is reached when a surface is required for use > in part [b], so publish geom in [a] and external copy geom in [b]. Now > if further work is done in [a], say the surface is punctured or trimmed > beyond the point it was published then this new shape appears in [b] > when its regenerated. Beats me how something that is published at a > particular point knows of further work being done to it. I workaround > this by copy surface before publishing, this locks the shape at the > desired point. But how does the published geometry reference something > after it was created? >
This is a puzzler. I'm trying to do as you've suggested, see if I can (in classic helpdesk fashion) "reproduce the error". So, in part A I create a publish geom of some seed/boundary surfaces (even going so far as to reorder a hole to see if the PG feature would update, it isn't affected by reordering he hole before the PG feature), then in part B, create a feature with 'Insert>Advanced>Copy Geom' and leave the Publish Geom icon active (WF3). I click in the Pub Geom collector open file box, pick my model with the Pub Geom feature and pick it. Original PG feature copied into part B. Go back to part A and add another hole, after PG feature, to see if it's affected. It is NOT affected in part B. Perhaps you've rolled Insert mode up before the PG feature, altered the original geometry and resumed/cancelled insert mode which could conceivably alter the PG feature? I think I can say, with some certainty, that later features don't alter the PG feature. Something else is going on! BTW, anyone know anything about INHERITANCE features? Do they fit in here somehow? What's the difference between Copy Geom, Pub Geom and Inheritance Features? Their capabilites and applications? These elude me.
David Janes