To Detail Electrode Design

To Detail Electrode Design

When you use SMARTElectrode you need to cleanup and detail the electrode solid before adding the base:

Click Modeling ▶ Surface Replace to replace surface through surface. SMARTElectrode also creates various replace features to replace multiple selected surfaces with one target surface. Selection of an external target surface creates a copy-geom of the surface before the replace feature is created.
Click Modeling ▶ Surface Thicken to thick selected surfaces.
Click Modeling ▶ Surface Expand to expand selected surfaces.
Click Modeling ▶ Surface Remove to remove selected surfaces. Starts interactive selection with available regions if nothing to remove.
Click Modeling ▶ Trim at Datum to remove material on one side of a datum.
Click Modeling ▶ Pattern to pattern geometry. Takes existing base into account.
Click Modeling ▶ Mirror to mirror geometry at datum.
Click Modeling ▶ Extrude to create a Creo extrude feature.
Click Modeling ▶ Revolve to create a Creo revolve feature.
Click Modeling ▶ Sweep to create a Creo Sweep feature.
Click Modeling ▶ Attach to fill the gap between selected surfaces and datum FREE_FACE with solid geometry. Auto-attach expands the solid by option value FINISH_DEFAULT_OFFSET and fills the remaining gap with a straight solid.
Click Modeling ▶ Attach Straight to fill the gap between selected surfaces and datum FREE_FACE with a straight solid geometry.
Click Modeling ▶ Attach Along expands the solid to FREE_FACE along original surface definitions.
Click Modeling ▶ Attach with Support to auto-attach the solid to datum FREE_FACE and add supporting geometry.
Click Modeling ▶ Add Support add supporting geometry for selected surfaces or the whole contour.
Click Modeling ▶ Surface Split to separate not contiguous regions of a surface from each other. Separated regions get new geom-ids. Unlike the Creo feature the implementation in SMARTElectrode also works on selected features, giving the possibility to divide all surface regions of a cutout.
Click Modeling ▶ Add Block to create a rectangular shaped solid enclosing selected surfaces. The solid is created as independent geometry.
Click Modeling ▶ Cut Block to create a rectangular shaped cut enclosing selected surfaces. The cut is created as independent geometry.
Click Modeling ▶ Expand Tangent to expand selected geometry with tangential boundary.
Click Modeling ▶ Expand Conic to extrude selected geometry with draft angle.
Click Modeling ▶ UDF to create user-defined feature from library

Note

Detailing functions can be activated with empty selection buffer or pre-selected surfaces. SMARTElectrode automatically starts interactive selection with available frame selection.