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>
> This is probably more than you want to know ......
Here, for some reason, possibly related to NG culture, we don't get enough
ramblers, those who tell us way MORE than we need to know. We, despite the
astronomical augmentation in capacity and speed, still pretend we're some
tightnit, close (and enclosed) little community of scientists working on
classified DoD projects, but needing a secure and cheaper-than-Ma-Bell
method of communicating conversational information quickly. So, short
posts,
approximating telegraphic messages (with 'stops' in them) and short cut
communication with abbreviations, acronyms and anything else to make it
more
like the telephonic in immediacy and speed. My way of saying no need to
apologize for what I asked for or for giving us the needed level of detail
that will help us dig into your problem. In fact, our usual complaint is
that we get too many questions on the order of "can i make a solid
protrusion in pro/e" to which we must inevitably answer "yes", since the
broadest, most vague questions receive the broadest, most contentless
answers. OTOH, the more pointed the question, the more precise (and to the
point) the answer.
> but here's the entire scope of the project:
> 1) Started with an existing model with a complex surface built using
> Style Tool.
> 2) Saved style curves used to construct the surface as an IGES.
Huh, why? From the start, where are you going with this, what are you
trying
to accomplish? This is entirely missing in your presentation. Many of the
problems we encounter in this forum is misconceptions of how to get where
people want to go, and so they try to take bizarre, circuitous routes and
wind up at dead ends in the maze.
> 3) In a new model: create datum curves from file, using IGES.
> 4) Edit Definition (Redefine), Edit File brings up the control points
> for the IGES curves in IBL format.
> 5) I then manipulated points in the IBL file (using Excel and some VBA
> macros) to modify the surface.
Again, why? For manipulation of curves/surfaces, you had one of the best
tools in the world ~ the Style feature. Don't see where you're going with
this but it seems like an extraordinarily roundabout way of getting there.
Maybe what is missing is a simple statement of "I am trying to get from
HERE
to THERE" with enough detail of what 'here' and 'there' are to to form a
picture of the transition, the path, the process. So far, this seems
extraordinarily convoluted and unlike anything we've used or seen demo'd
before. Thus, I suspect you're "off the reservation" and lost, beating the
bush, hoping to find a familiar landmark. I can't provide you with one,
don't know where you are or where you're going. Spare no words on these
relevant subjects.
David Janes
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