Hybrid Design

Working in a hybrid design environment concretely means that you can create wireframe and surface features within the same body. This capability aims at having a quick understanding of parts creation.

This new way of designing therefore induces interfaces homogeneity between Part Design and Generative Shape Design, which makes the use of these products much easier.

In the Hybrid Design chapter, the following issues are discussed:

• Creating Bodies
  • Terminology
  • Graphic Representations
  • What Are Bodies Made Of ?
    • What Bodies Do Not Contain
  • Specific Mechanisms Locate Features
  • Impacts on Existing Capabilities
    • Sketch Location in the Specification Tree
    • Reorder
    • Delete
    • Surface-based Features
    • Surface and Wireframe Elements created on the fly
    • Surface-based Features
    • Visualization
    • Creation of features
    • Boolean Operations
    • Location of Operating Bodies in Boolean Operations
    • Power Copies
• How to Integrate the Surface World into Solid Modeling
  • Using Surface-based Features to Integrate Surface Modeling into Solid Modeling
  • Using Boolean Operations to integrate Volume Design into Solid Design
  • Inserting Added Volumes
• Graphic Properties
• Deactivating Your Hybrid Design Environment
  • Accessing the Hybrid Design Setting
  • Recommendation
  • Identifying Bodies and Solid Bodies