Interactive Feature Recognition

In this topic, you interactively recognize fillet features.

1. Click Recognize Features (Features toolbar) or Insert > FeatureWorks > Recognize Features.
2. In the PropertyManager:
   1. Under Recognition Mode, select Interactive.
   2. Under Feature Type, select Standard features.
   3. Under Interactive Features, select Fillet/Round in Feature type.
      When you select Interactive recognition mode, FeatureWorks enables the SOLIDWORKS selection filters during entity selection. You can only select entities based on the Feature Type you selected. For example, you can only select faces when you select Fillet/Round in Feature Type.
   4. Click the filleted face shown to select it.
      
   5. Select Chain fillet faces.
      The neighboring fillets are selected automatically.
   6. Click Recognize.
      The recognized feature disappears from the solid body. Any geometry not yet recognized still appears in the graphics area.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 to recognize the remaining fillets on the part.
   FeatureWorks recognizes one fillet feature at a time unless the fillets have the same radius. You must recognize some fillets before others. For example, you must recognize small radii fillets before large radii fillets.

   

4. Do not close the PropertyManager.