FeatureWorks PropertyManager
You can use the FeatureWorks
PropertyManager to set most of the FeatureWorks recognition options. You
can recognize features automatically or interactively. You can use step-by-step
recognition with automatic and interactive feature recognition or
a combination of these methods. See Automatic
versus Interactive Feature Recognition for details. You can
also recognize standard features, or sheet
metal features.
FeatureWorks cannot recognize entities in
the Surface Bodies folder.
To recognize features automatically:
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Click Recognize Features
(Features toolbar) or Insert,
FeatureWorks, Recognize
Features.
You can also
select an imported body in the graphics area or in the SolidWorks FeatureManager
design tree, right-click, and select FeatureWorks,
Recognize Features. This works
for automatic and interactive recognition.
The FeatureWorks
PropertyManager appears.
Under Recognition
Mode, click Automatic.
Under Feature
Type, click one of these options:
Automatic recognition of
hem and edge flange features include some limitations.
Click
or
to select or clear all feature filters.
Click
to automatically recognize
the selected features.
The Intermediate
Stage PropertyManager appears with the list of Recognized
Features.
If necessary,
you can Find
Patterns, Combine
Features, or Re-Recognize
features as alternate features.
-
Click
to recognize
the features. To exit without recognizing the features, click
.
The features appear in the
SolidWorks FeatureManager design tree.
To recognize features interactively:
Click Recognize
Features (Features toolbar) or Insert,
FeatureWorks, Recognize
Features.
The FeatureWorks
PropertyManager appears.
Under Recognition
Mode, click Interactive.
Under Feature
Type, click one of these options:
Standard features
Sheet metal features
Under Interactive
Features, choose the Feature type.
See Interactive
Feature Recognition Selections
for details on the feature types.
Under Selected
entities , select geometry from the graphics area
to recognize as the selected Feature
type. You do not have to select every face of a feature to recognize
it.
Select from the following options, which appear
depending on the selected feature type:
Chain
chamfer faces. (Chamfer features
only). Select this check box to have FeatureWorks find additional faces
for a chamfer feature adjacent to the face you select.
Chain
fillet faces. (Fillet features
only). Select this check box to have FeatureWorks find additional fillet
faces tangent to the fillet face you select. You can select a chain
of fillets with different radii on each edge. Variable
radius fillets can be included in a chain of fillets. The selected chain
is recognized as a single feature. If the fillet faces do not chain automatically,
you may be able to manually select them to create a chain as a single
feature.
Chain
revolved faces. (Revolve and Hole features only). Select this check
box if you want the FeatureWorks software to determine the faces for a
revolved feature from a minimum set of faces you select. For an illustration
of the effect of this check box, see Interactive Feature Recognition Selections.
Check
parallel faces. (Extrudes only.) Recognizes non-similar features
if they have a face that is parallel to the selected face.
End
Face 1 and End Face 2/Support
Face. (Boss-sweep
features only). Select a start and end face for these features.
End
Face 1 and End Face 2.
(Base-loft
and Cut-sweep
features only). Select a start and end face for these features.
Cut
faces. (Cut-sweep
features only).
Neutral
face. (Draft features only) Select a face for the neutral plane
of the Draft feature.
Normal
to sketch. (Rib features only). You can interactively recognize
ribs that are extruded normal to sketch.
Recognize
filleted. (Draft features only) Recognizes all the fillets and
drafts associated with a selected neutral face in one step. Otherwise,
you must use one step to recognize the fillets and then more steps to
recognize each of the different drafts.
Recognize
similar. (Extrudes, Revolves, Ribs, Sweeps, and Hole features only).
Select this check box to recognize features with similar characteristics.
For example, you have several boss extrudes with rectangular cross sections.
Select the face of one boss, and these features are recognized at the
same time, but as separate features.
Recognize
pattern. (Extrudes, Revolves, Sweeps, and Hole features only)
Up
to face. (Extrudes only) Select a face for termination of the feature.
The FeatureWorks software extends the feature from the sketch plane to
the selected face.
If you select any wrong entities,
right-click the part in the graphics area and choose Select
Other or Clear Selections.
If you want to delete one or more faces, click
.
You can use this prior to feature recognition to get rid of complicated
or unwanted geometry. If you delete faces that are necessary for previously
recognized features, FeatureWorks will not be able to recreate those features.
Click Recognize
to interactively recognize the selected features.
If successful, the features are removed from
the imported body in the graphics area.
If you want to undo the recognition of a feature,
click in the FeatureWorks PropertyManager. Click to recreate the undone feature.
Continue to recognize features of different feature
types.
Click or Recognize.
The Intermediate
Stage PropertyManager appears with the list of Recognized
Features.
You can click to return to the FeatureWorks
PropertyManager to recognize more features..
Click to complete feature recognition
and create the new features.
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