- [Instructor] So here,
I'm going to start off a new file.
I'm just going to simply go into start,
generative shape design.
What's going to happen is it's going to enter
into the workbench,
and by entering into the workbench,
it's going to make a new file.
So every time I go in to start generative shape design.
Like in this case,
it'll make a new file.
Often times, people will get confused
'cause hey, where did my data go?
So if I were to go into, let's say part design,
it'll just switch the workbench I'm in.
But here,
if I go back into generative shape,
again, switching the workbench I'm in,
if I were to reenter generative shape design,
it would make a new file.
So just pay attention to that.
You might get lost with the data that you're creating
and all of a sudden, everything disappears.
It's just simply may have accidentally gone
into the workbench twice, that's all.
Now, with this new file,
I'm going to insert geometrical set.
As I insert this geometrical set,
you'll notice I can give it a name.
So for this, I'll just call it geo set.
I'm going to select okay,
and it appears in the tree.
You'll also notice, and I talked about this
in the previous video a little bit, that underline.
This is telling me where the data is going to go
when I create it.
So let's say I click on a point.
And I select okay.
You'll notice it goes into that geo set.
So I'm going to insert another geometrical set, for example.
And this time, I want this geo set
to go into the one that I just created.
When I select that, saying hey,
this is where I want it to go,
it's going to ask me a question.
Now some of these questions
are a little difficult to understand.
Reason behind that is that because the initial program
is written in a different language
and translated in English,
and sometimes, those translations can be a little confusing.
So the question it's asking is,
do you want geo set to be a feature or the father?
Yes feature, no father.
Better way to ask this would be
do I want this geometrical set to go inside of geo set?
Or do I want it to be the father,
meaning geo set is going to be a child
into the new geo set?
If I want the new geometrical set I'm creating
to be nested under the first geo set,
all I have to do is hit no.
Most of the time, you're going to hit no.
So you'll see here,
the father is going to be geo set.
I can come in here, enter a new name,
and just call it form,
and hit enter.
Now, you'll notice the underline goes under form.
So anything that I create at this point,
just create another point, put it on this plane,
out in space,
goes into that geometrical set.
If I wanted my data to go in this geo set,
I can right mouse click,
define a work object,
and now, if I were to say generate a line
between these two points,
you'll notice I can pick the elements out of the tree.
Select okay.
That line goes now inside of that geometrical set.
If I placed it in the wrong location, once again,
I can right mouse click,
go down to the very bottom,
change geo set,
and indicate where I want it to go.
And I want it to go in there, select okay.
So now that line is in the geo set
that I want it to be in.
Other things that I can do with these geo sets
is I can set various attributes
for the elements contained within them.
I'm going to right mouse click over form,
and I'm going to go into properties.
Under properties, if I go to feature properties,
that's the name,
so if you misspelled it, you can go in there
and change the name.
I'm going to look under graphic.
And here, you're going to see a bunch of things
that I can do graphically to the elements contained
within that geometrical set.
So start off at the top.
Fill.
This is for surfaces.
If I have an actual surface,
this is the color, by default,
the surface is going to be inside of the geo set,
and I'll show you that here in a minute.
Edges.
This is the edge of a surface.
Lines and curves.
So currently, if we look at that line,
it looks orange.
Let me go ahead and cancel out of this just to show you.
Right now, it's white.
So when I go back in,
properties,
I'm going to change this,
and let's make it green.
I'm going to change the line type,
we'll go dashed.
And the thickness.
And we'll just do that, select okay.
Now you'll notice that the line changes color and font.
I can do the same with points.
We go back into properties by right mouse clicking,
so the color of my points, I can make yellow.
I can change the symbol of those points, as well.
Select okay.
If I were to make it with, say, a surface,
and I'll just simply do an extrusion.
You'll notice that's the color of my surface.
And here,
that's the default color.
If I right mouse click over form,
I go into properties,
and I change the color to magenta,
and I go oops, it didn't change.
Why didn't it change?
I wasn't paying attention to where my extrude went.
You'll notice it went into this geo set.
So if I move this now,
change geometrical set to form.
Select okay, you'll notice it changes color
to match what I had set for that specific geo set.
And again, this is a good way
to make sure that your file is organized
because I set, I have a preference
to the colors that I like to use.
So my initial slabs,
my untrimmed surfaces will be set to a specific color.
That way, when I look at 'em, I know exactly what it is.
If I have something that's trimmed or split
or of secondary function to that surface,
I'll often change the color
so I know exactly, again, what I'm looking at.
So I have various presets for my geometrical sets
that I like to use as I go along in design.
That way, again, it helps my organize my tree.
It makes it much easier, visually speaking,
to find what I'm looking for,
and it's just, again, good practice,
because some companies use various colors
for specific functions of a surface.
Maybe you have a ribbon that needs to be trimmed away.
That would be made magenta.
Maybe you have the final element that everyone needs
to see and use.
Maybe that'll be made a dark blue or green
or whatever that may be.
Or I have changes to a specific area
and I want to show those changes
to the next person.
So as part of a revision control from file to file,
I may change the colors.
The same thing with curves.
I may have a line set up as a dieline
or a parting line for drafted surfaces.
So setting those preferences up in the geo set initially
become very important.
That way, you can control, visually,
what's going on in your file.