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Hi Johan: Once you have created the assembly containing the parts you wish to modify, you need to make one (or more) of your parts "modifiable" (Modeling/Local Shapes/Make Locally Modifiable). After that you can use the Boolean operators (Modeling/Local Shapes/Boolean) to modify your part(s) within ...

Hi Johan: Ah, now I see your problem. I *think* (but I'm not certain....) you will want to make an assembly document containing the part(s) you want to act upon, and then perform your Boolean operations in the assembly document. I believe that you can also trim one part with another inside an assemb...

Hi Johan:

Yes, you will have to indicate which solid is the tool and which is your part.

Cheers, Brian

Hi Johan:

The Boolean functions are found under the Shape tab....Shape/Boolean (the Union, Subtraction, and Intersection options are found in the main dialog window).

Cheers, Brian

Hi Michelle: It sounds like you're on the right track generally, but this can be a little "finicky" sometimes depending on the geometry you have to work with. Sometimes you have to do this in several steps, instead of all at once....I can't tell if there are fillets on the groove edges or not, but i...

Hi Michelle:

Just a guess (and perhaps this has already been resolved?): is it possible that you have uninstalled/deleted some of the templates during your previous "cleanup" of your install?

Cheers, Brian

Hi Michelle:

I just sent you a reply to your PM-sorry for the late response. I think I may have hosed up something with my PM settings-not sure. I will assume "operator error" for now-LOL!

Cheers, Brian

Hi Michelle:

The French forum (http://forum.TopSolid.fr) has much more activity, and might be helpful....if you can read French!

Cheers, Brian

Hi Steve: If you want to make the sort of small adjustments you would usually need to make as a tool wears during a job, simply use cutter comp... If you want to redefine a tool as having a different diameter after regrinding, then perhaps define a new tool in the TopTool database. Cheers........Brian

Hi Steven, Reordering of operations is quite easy...highlight the operation(s) you want to copy/move, hit CTRL-X (standard Windows command for "cut"), or CTRL-C ("copy"), then highlight the operation in the ops manager that you want to paste *after*, and hit CTRL-V ("paste"). If you want to move som...

Hi Stephen, If you can locate your manuals, they have some fairly useful tutorials. The manuals are also available on the install DVD as Adobe Acrobat files ("PDF's"). They are probably good enough to get you started, but as with most any s/w these days, they don't cover *everything.* As I mentioned...

Hi Stephen, Select the feature you want to deactivate (yeah, I know it's called suppress in Pro/e & SWX...) in the feature tree, right click on it, and select "deactivated" in the context menu. You can toggle the features/operations on or off in this manner. Have a look at the help file if this is u...

Hi Stephen, The Model Tree in TopSolid'Cam functions in the same way as in TopSolid, and you can access it in the same way-click on the left edge of the viewport. (Have you used the tree in TopSolid?). If you can tell me exactly what you're trying to do I can probably get you headed in the right dir...

Hi Stephen,

Have a look....the menu pick you want is "Operations/Operations Manager."

Hope this does the trick for you.

Cheers...........Brian