When a design is cloned and modified, the following occurs to ensure consistency between the meshes on the original and new designs:
Automatically sizing the model accounts for dimensional changes and ensures that newly introduced parts have a mesh distribution. An internal macro is used to ensure that adjustments to the mesh distribution are also preserved.
Extrusion data is also transferred if the corresponding source surfaces can be determined.
The entire process is automatic, and is designed to ensure that the mesh distribution is preserved as much as possible when modifications are made to the model. There are three potential status messages that can occur:
Model entity map was complete. Full Macro played
This means that a complete one-to-one correspondence existed between the original and the modified geometry. All adjustments to the original model were transferred to the modified model.
Model entity map was partially complete. Partial macro played
This means that the number of components differs between the original and the modified geometries. Mesh distribution adjustments are transferred, but there are either new parts that have the default mesh distribution or parts were removed.
Model entity map failed. Macro deleted
This means that none of the original components were found in the model after updating the geometry. The result of this is that the model will be auto-sized, but no size adjustments from the original model will be transferred to the new one.