Thanks, I know this is how it works I was just wondering if you were able to essentially be able to get heroic flashpoint OR operation level mods from crafting to put into orange craftable gear and weapons. I've heard that you would be able to basically get a piece of orange gear that you like the look of and mod it out with commendations or craftable gear. Therefor not having to grind flashpoints or operations except for the non-orange gear that you need.
With crafting yeilding cybertech(armoring/mods), Artificing(hilt/enhancments), Armstech(barrels), slicing(augments). If it doesn't have equivalent end game level equipment then making a choice between main and alt crew skills would be easier to choose for myself in the min/maxing sense.
Orange gear threw a wrench in my line of thinking you would be able to have the gear with the aesthetics you wanted without replacing it with operation gear later on.