FeatureWorks - Works Even Better.

Sean-Michael Adams · 2003-09-25T23:24:28+00:00

Hi All.For anyone using feature works, you will be plesantly surprised withone major improvement.We now have the ability to recognize features multiple times on agiven imported body.Gone is the "all or nothing" scheme that has existed for far too long. Formerly, if you needed to recognize features in a dumb importedmodel, you needed to recognize ALL the features at one time, just incase you needed them to be parametric at a later date.In days of yore, once you mapped your recognized features toparametric features, you were all done recognizing anything on thatgiven model FOREVER.This made featureworks a really crippled add on.BUT now, you may recognize features, map them, exit featureworks, addnew solidworks features and then come back later to recognize morefeatures, and so on and so on.SolidWorks has really made life better for the manufacturer (other aswell I' sure) with this awesome and much needed improvement! If youuse this add on, you will not be encumbered by the "once only"paradigm anymore, which means that you can selectively recognize onlythe features you need without worrying if you will need to do them allJUST IN CASE you might need them later.If you need them later, go back for more feature recognition . . .Long overdue . . . great improvement!Regards,SMA

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Arthur Y-S 23 years ago

Hey Sean,

What a world that would be.... thing is these software companies are SOOO protective of their code...blah, blah. blah. And in some ways rightfully so. I remember that there was a little feature included in SW that would let you bring in Pro/E files nicely. What happened.....lawyers got involved and that was the end of that.

The day we get parametric imports WOW

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