Pairs Clearance

Does anyone else think the Pairs Clearance (formally
clearance/interference) function is hard to read in WF? The model parts
highlight in red and orange and any intereference is I think shown in
darker red, but maybe I'm just looking where I think it should be. It
seems another case to me of something worked well and they stuffed it
up. I've gone to my system colors but I can't see how to change the
colors.

 

It accounts for allowances (smallest allowable size of a hole, largest
allowable size of a shaft) and shows interference from there. That's nice,
it's something. (Maybe it's always done this and I just didn't realize it.)
But the way it "demonstrates" interference is not helpful... in the least.
It is more along the lines of 'users have gone back to sleep, let's go back
to the comfortable, cliquish obscurantism of the "experts"' (who expertly
invent nonsense, pulled from their conceptually pure anuses, which makes
them perfect assholes). PTC's elitism is so tawdry, shopworn and
out-of-date, you'd think anyone with at least one foot on the ground would
be a little embarrassed at HOW out-of-date they are. And, especially when
they are 'carrying' a black sheep, lesser cousin, like Pro/DESKTOP, which
runs circles around them in precisely the visualization department. But, it
seems the management is immune to both embarrassment and education. They're
never wrong and they never learn and only their monopoly position keeps the
stupidity you mention in force. Ain't monopolies grand!! (Maybe someone
should submit an 'enhancement' [de-stupidification] request.)

David Janes

 

The allowances would be based on set tolerances I presume? Never used
that but it sounds like a good feature.

All I know is, in 2001 I used my mapkey for clearance/interference. I
would type "ci", then 2 mouse clicks and there was the interference,
shown clearly against the highlighted parts. I think it was red against
blue. Now it's dark red against red and orange. plus you have to
specify whether you want to pick quilts, edges, surfaces or the actual
parts. Not sure what use it is to test intereference of surfaces in an
assembly. At least I've never worked that way.