Assisted Feature Creation

Support assisted feature creation through CAD Auto Create.

Datum can be set after creating the feature:
You can right-click on that feature group in the left-side tree view and select Set as datum, and the created feature can be set as datum used for datum alignment or measuring parallelism or perpendicularity in GD & T.

Note

After creating a feature, click in the right Properties panel to highlight the object in the left tree view and the 3D scene.

CAD Auto Create

Create features by directly clicking on geometric shape features (lines, single planes, circles, spheres, cones, cylinders, etc.) on the CAD model.

Note

• Before creating geometric features using the CAD auto creation method, please import a reference model.
• Support selecting the target feature in the Direct Feature Creation toolbar first, then using the Pick on CAD Model method to automatically create features.
• Features created using the CAD auto create method are reference features by default; if you need to extract measured features, please import a measured model and extract measured features automatically or manually.

The steps for creating features using the CAD auto creation method are as follows:

1. In the Feature Tools bar, click to enable the CAD auto creation tool.

2. Select Regular or Sheet Metal Hole as the creation method.

   Note

   • You can create line, plane, circle, sphere, cylinder, cone, surface, and polyline features using the Regular method.
   • You can create circle, slot, regular polygon, and rectangle features using the Sheet Metal Hole method.

3. Click on the highlighted geometric feature on the model in the 3D scene to create.

   Note

   Select multiple areas at once and quickly create multiple features.

4. Click Apply to create this new geometric reference feature, which will be displayed in the feature module of the left tree view.

Note

• Click on circle, slot, regular polygon, and rectangle feature groups to view the hole type in the property information on the right side of the interface.
• Circle features created in Regular Mode display as Standard Hole in the Hole Type of the property bar on the right side of the interface; features created in Sheet Metal Hole mode display as Sheet Metal Hole in the Hole Type of the property bar on the right side of the interface; if using direct creation methods (such as anchor and from polylines), created circle, slot, regular polygon, rectangle features or child features created from already created features display as Default in the Hole Type of the property bar on the right side of the interface.
• Different hole types have different parameter settings; if you need to change the hole type, you need to delete the created measured object in the tree view, then manually extract the corresponding measured object, and select the hole type in the property bar on the right side of the extract measured object interface.

Extract Measured Values

After creating reference features, the corresponding measured features can be extracted automatically or manually.

Note

Import at least one measured model before extracting measured features to generate feature pairs.

• Automatic Extraction: Enable Auto Extraction of Measured Values via Settings in the upper right corner of the software interface or check Extract Measured Feature in the creation window. The software will automatically extract the corresponding measured feature with default parameters after creating any reference feature.

  Note

  If there are multiple measurement objects, please select the corresponding extraction object in the creation window; the default selection is the first measured model or the first measured model within the first measurement group.

• Manual Extraction: After creating a reference feature, right-click the feature group in the tree view on the left, select Extract Measured Feature and specify the measurement model to be extracted; you can specify Align Object in the extraction pop-up window.

Note

When selecting sub-features, 2D features, or when there are only sub-features or 2D features in multiple selections or groups, right-click the feature group in the left tree view and select Extract Measured Feature to directly extract the measured feature without selecting a measured model.