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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.
  • After creating a feature, you can edit the reference value in the right Properties panel, and the corresponding deviation value as well as the label will be updated in real time.

Extraction​​

If the created feature is a reference feature, the corresponding measured feature can be extracted automatically or manually.

  • 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.
  • 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.

CAD Auto Create

Create features by directly clicking on the geometric features shaped as lines, single planes, circles, spheres, cones or cylinders of the CAD model.

Note

  • Before creating features using the CAD auto creation method, please import a reference model.
  • This method supports specifying features as reference features or measured features.
  • If you define the feature as a reference feature, then you can extract the measured feature to generate feature pairs after importing at least one measured model.
  • You can also select the target feature in the Create Features toolbar first, and use the Pick on CAD Model method to automatically create features.

The steps for creating features through CAD Auto creation are as follows:

  1. Select CAD Auto Create in the Assisted Feature Creation toolbar to enable the tool.
  2. Click on the highlighted geometric feature of the model in the 3D scene to create, and define the feature as Reference Feature or Measured Feature.
  3. Click Confirm in the window of CAD Auto Create to create the geometric feature.