Hybrid Design... Enable: yes/no

Hello everyone. I would like to take a census.

Do you enable Hybrid design or not and Why.

Also the next box as well..........

Thanks Phil.

No I don't, never have. Never will, don't like yellow bodies...

Heck YES!

Rather than have a referenced plane (for example) hidden off somewhere in a geometric set, you can have it in your partbody right where it is referenced. That way if you need to modify it for some reason you do not need to go searching for it.

The plane example may be a little to simplistic - I realise you can quickly get to the parameters of a referenced plane, but hopefully the idea gets across.

I know several years ago hybrid design was discouraged, but if you are at a fairly current release you should be OK.

I HIGHLY recommend it!

NO.  we have disabled the option and locked it so users cannot enable it.

Because it would cause too much confusion to try to implement now, many years after we established our modeling methods. Our users have become too familiar with working with unordered Geom Sets.  The advantages Hybrid Design offers, do not outweigh the disadvantages for us.

(not that Hybrid Design is a bad thing)

Correct me if I am wrong

With Hybrid, Don't you have to reorder, if you want to build of a piece of geo, using somthing below on the tree. Don't you have to move it up to before?

I hope this discussion continues. There is a lot to this.

Here is some more thoughts

www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm

I think it was put in for PRO-E converts?

Really

Well, is that case Dassault was very considerate

I also heard it was for ProE converts. And yes, if that's true it was nice of Dassualt.Well, sort of (come use our software, we'll make it easy for you).

Well, when I first started I had no pref. one way or another. Didn't really know about it.

Never really gave it much thought. Always it was enabled. Default I think.

Months down the road I learned of it. Stayed in it, enabled....

I took a course at INCAT and the instructor said "Just stay with it not enabled".

Said it was better. There was too much to go over in the class so we really never got into it "WHY"?

So on the following work day back we changed to "no" hybrid design. I really miss it though.

When designing a fixture I can always create a geo set anytime and place items in it when desired w hybrid.

Also, as I would design it is not set in stone. I rethink approaches all the time to figure out the best way possible which may mean a deletion or a major change of a feature.

In Hybrid I always know what is dependent upon another by its placement in the tree. Non-Hybrid I have planes, geo and surfaces in side "geo sets" and when I change my design in a body I get a out of cycle alarm and other messages. Most of the time It cannot be fixed and I have to delete items of interest I would rather keep. In Hybrid those same Items I would be able to fix, reorder, change sketch support, etc. and move on. Features seem to get messed up easier without hybrid on.

This is really starting to get on my nerves.

So from the post here and other forums I have visited....

At one time it was not available for us to use.

Companies had established company wide settings and were locked in.

Change to it was not an option and IT wasn't about to change it.

Customers do not use it so we don't either.

I for one like it better than non hybrid. Both work well. Both are ok. But in hybrid I feel I have more control over what I am doing. Creating a Geo set when I need and being able to provide myself a plane or ? inside a part body tree area if I choose. This may be a time for changing of the guards. So far no one can say exactly why its better so far. Its a new feature. It has advantages. NON-Hybrid has limitations yes? Right? Honestly has someone worked w hybrid for a while. Get use to it and then say they still do not like it?

Maybe this is something the big companies may need to consider changing with in the company. I don't know about you guys but I feel a revolution coming on... Don't you?

Thanks Phil