Local Recognition and Re-Recognition

Local Recognition allows you to recognize groups of features at once without recognizing the entire part.

1. Under Recognition Mode, click Automatic.
2. Under Automatic Features, select Extrudes and clear the other check boxes.
3. Select the face shown. You can select either the front or back face.

   The face is listed under Local recognition entities.

   

4. Click .
   The Intermediate Stage PropertyManager appears. Under Recognized Features, FeatureWorks has automatically recognized five Cut-Extrudes and one Boss-Extrude, plus the fillets from the interactive recognition.
5. Select Cut-Extrude1 in the list that corresponds to the large central cut extrude. Under Re-Recognize, select Hole and click Re-Recognize.
   FeatureWorks re-recognizes the extruded cut as a hole.

   You re-recognized that feature to demonstrate that FeatureWorks can re-recognize the initial feature type as another feature type. This is helpful if you need a certain type of feature, but FeatureWorks recognized it as a different feature.

   You can re-recognize:

   • Cuts as revolves, extrudes, or hole features
   • Bosses as revolves or extrudes
   • Holes as revolved or extruded cuts
6. Click .
   A FeatureWorks message informs you that FeatureWorks will continue recognizing features on the remaining imported body.

   If the FeatureWorks message disappears, re-display it by selecting FeatureWorks on the status bar.
7. Click OK.
   The software returns to the FeatureWorks PropertyManager. FeatureWorks recognizes the local features and they disappear from the model.

   

8. Do not close the PropertyManager.