- Edge Selection Toolbar Available for Fillets
When manually adding or editing constant and variable radius fillets, a pop-up toolbar is available to help you select multiple edges or fillets. The same toolbar is used with FilletXpert.
- Enhanced Support for Mounting Bosses
More options are available for creating mounting bosses.
- Enhanced Support for Thin Extrudes
The Extrude features support multiple open contours for thin extrudes. You can create a thin extrude by selecting from a series of open or closed profiles within a sketch.
- Enhancement for Inserting Cosmetic Threads
With the Start from a face/plane option, you must select a face or plane, and specify the thread depth. This applies to new cosmetic threads and to legacy cosmetic threads that you edit.
- Enhancements to Part Reviewer
- Highlighting Related Bodies or Surfaces in Multibody Parts
In multibody parts, if you select a body or surface in the graphics area, the corresponding item is highlighted in the Cut-List-Item folder, the Solid Bodies or Surface Bodies folder, and the feature name in the FeatureManager design tree. The highlighting helps you identify which body or surface was selected, especially if you are working with large weldments and cut lists.
- Inserting Dowel Holes with the Hole Wizard
You can insert standard dowel holes using the Hole Wizard. Dowel holes are used to align components in assemblies. You can choose from standard diameters, or assign custom diameters appropriate to your industry.
- Linking a Defeature Model to Original
You can link a defeature model to the original model. With this option, changes made to the original are automatically reflected in the defeature model.
- Mass Properties in Parts
- Modifying Geometry with the Intersect Tool
You can intersect solids, surfaces, and planes to modify existing geometry, or to create new geometry with the Intersect tool.
- Multibody Library Features
You can create library features from multibody parts.
- Selecting End Conditions for Extruded Features
You can right-click anywhere on an extruded feature and change the end condition from a shortcut menu. You can click in empty space, on geometry, or on the handle.
- Show Hidden Bodies
You can toggle the display of hidden and shown bodies for multibody parts. This command is the same as the Show Hidden Components command for assemblies.
- Smarter Configuration Switching
Showing a new configuration in a part is now faster if the configuration is in memory. A configuration is only in memory if it has been shown in the current session or saved using the new Manage Configurations functionality.
- Transferring Custom Properties
Improvements have been made to transferring of custom properties when you insert a configured part into another part.
- Varying Dimension Patterns
The Instance to Vary option in the Linear and Circular Pattern PropertyManagers allows you to vary the dimensions and locations of instances in a feature pattern.
- Weldments