The FeatureManager design tree makes selection and filtering
operations simple, and provides access to many folders and tools that are useful when
working with models.
The FeatureManager design tree and the graphics area are dynamically
linked. You can select features, sketches, drawing views, and construction geometry in
either pane.
You can split the FeatureManager design
tree and either display two FeatureManager instances, or combine the FeatureManager
design tree with the ConfigurationManager or PropertyManager.
To change the visibility of the FeatureManager design tree area, press
F9 or click , which is especially useful when in full screen mode.
Use the FeatureManager design tree to:
- Select items in the model by name.
- Filter the FeatureManager design tree.
- Identify and change the order in which the features are created.
You can drag items in the FeatureManager design tree list to reorder them.
Dragging an item changes the order in which features regenerate when the model
rebuilds.
- Display the dimensions of a feature by double-clicking the
feature’s name.
- Rename items by slowly clicking two times on a name to select it
and entering a new name.
- Suppress and unsuppress part features and assembly
components.
- View parent/child relations by right-clicking a feature and
selecting Parent/Child.
- Locate errors
and warnings 
associated with
the model or a feature and described in tooltips and in What's Wrong?
- Display the following items:
- Feature descriptions
- Component descriptions
- Component configuration
names
- Component configuration
descriptions
The FeatureManager design tree provides the following folders and tools:
- Use the rollback bar to temporarily roll the model back to an
earlier state.
- Add features, sketches, mates, and reference geometry to the
Favorites folder
.
- Add sensors to the Sensors folder
to monitor selected properties.
- Add a new equation, edit, or delete an equation by
right-clicking the Equations folder
, and selecting the action
that you want. The Equations folder
appears when you add the first equation to a part or assembly.
- Control the display of dimensions and annotations by
right-clicking the Annotations folder
.
- Keep a Design Journal and add attachments to the Design Binder folder
.
- Add or modify a material applied to a part by right-clicking
Material
.
- View all solid bodies that the document contains in the
Solid Bodies folder
.
- View all surface bodies that the document contains in the
Surface Bodies folder
.
- View Planes
, Origin
, Axes
, and Sketches
of inserted parts.
- Hide the origins for components and assemblies by right-clicking
Origin
and clicking Hides origin
.
- Add custom folders, and drag features into the folders to reduce
the length of the FeatureManager design tree.
- View and work in a flyout FeatureManager design tree in the
graphics area while a PropertyManager appears in the left pane.
- Move between the FeatureManager
design tree, PropertyManager, ConfigurationManager, DimXpertManager, and
DisplayManager tabs by selecting the tabs at the top of the left pane.
