The FeatureWorks software recognizes features on an imported solid body in a SOLIDWORKS part document.
Recognized features are the same as features that you create using the SOLIDWORKS software. You can edit the definition of recognized features to change their parameters. For features that are based on sketches, after you recognize the features, you can edit the sketches from the SOLIDWORKS FeatureManager design tree to change the geometry of the features.
FeatureWorks recognizes the following features:
- Extruded or revolved features
- Chamfers on linear or circular edges
- Constant or variable radius fillets on linear or circular edges
- Ribs: extruded parallel to sketch, extruded normal to sketch, and ribs with negative draft.
- Draft features
- Holes. With automatic or interactive feature recognition, you can recognize these types of holes: simple, simple drilled, taper, taper drilled, countersunk, countersunk drilled, counter bored, counter bored drilled, counter drilled, and counter drilled drilled.
You can also recognize Hole Wizard holes.
- Lofts. Interactively recognize base-lofts.
- Shells
- Sweeps. Interactively recognize boss and cut sweeps.
- Volume Features
- Feature patterns: linear, circular, rectangular, and mirror.
- Sheet metal features: base flanges, edge flanges, sketched bends, hem flanges, and miter flanges.
- Sketch Patterns. Using interactive recognition, you can create a sketch pattern from similar features that were created randomly. Partial imprints of features cannot be recognized. Creating a pattern of a pattern feature is not supported.
- Multibody parts. Recognize Multimode parts one body at a time.
FeatureWorks can automatically add dimensions to features it recognizes. It supports baseline, change, and ordinate dimensioning schemes and recognizes concentric and other relations. See Recognized Sketch Constraints for more information.