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Multiple derives not allowed?
S1mon
Member Posts: 2,976 PRO
This is a new error for me. Until I have time to create a proper custom feature, I was using a part studio with parts for injection molded boss features. That was great until I tried to derive the same bosses in two different derive features in the same part studio, and I got this error. Is there some good reason why this is not allowed?
Also, why was this scolding message about not using derive to create assemblies added? I'm using it to create the same sets of features in different parts of the same part studio.
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Yeah that seems a bit drastic… My understanding is that it's for performance reasons and deriving multiple times from the same ps and config was always against recommended practice and not it's explicitly not allowed….
I guess you could derive once and then use transforms (or transform patterns) to add other derived instances of the same. Or use the good old "super derive" FS which should still work the same way.
The other thing that I'm reminded of is that derived parts get the same name as the originals but the appearance doesn't carry over. This is frustrating since I was trying to use color coding to make it easier to grab the right parts for further operations. I could see this being an option, but I don't know why it just throws away the info.