Renaming Features

It is a good practice to give meaningful names to the features in your parts, especially when you plan to use a design table. This eliminates confusion in complex parts, and helps other people who use the parts later.

  1. Browse to the location where you placed the designtables folder and open tutor1.SLDPRT.
  2. In the FeatureManager design tree, select Extrude1 and press F2 to rename it.
    You can also click-pause-click on items in the FeatureManager design tree to rename them.
  3. Enter the new name, Box, and press Enter.
    Feature names cannot contain the @ character.
  4. Rename these other features:
    Old Name New Name
    Extrude2 Knob
    Cut-Extrude1 Hole_in_knob
    Fillet1 Outside_corners
  5. Click File > Save As New.
  6. In the dialog box, for File name enter tutor3.SLDPRT, then click Save.
    To give descriptive names to features as you create them, click Tools > Options. Under System Options, select FeatureManager, then select Name feature on creation. Each time you create a new feature, the name of the new feature in the FeatureManager design tree is automatically highlighted, and ready for you to enter a new name.