Chapter 6: Getting More from Your Sketches
- Add a Comment by right-clicking the VarFillet3 feature, selecting the Comment
flyout arrow, clicking the Add Comment option, clicking the Date/Time Stamp
button, and adding a comment that uses the word Blend. - Check the Tags for the part by clicking the small yellow tag in the lower-right
corner of the Status Bar, then click any feature, and double-click in the Tags
interface box. - Add a Tag by selecting the Cut-Extrude1 feature and adding the tag pilar.
- Right-click any item in the FeatureManager and select Go To from the options.
- Type 37 in the box and click the Find Next button. The FeatureManager should
highlight a feature near the bottom of the tree named Fillet37. - Click Fillet37 in the Feature Manager and select the Zoom to Selection tool. Zoom
to Selection is a magnifying glass with an equal sign in it. The display zooms and pans to
a fillet on one end of the part. - Right-click a face of Fillet37 on the model and select Go To Feature (In Tree),
which will select the FeatureManager if necessary and scroll to show Fillet37. This
sequence of tools shows the importance and interdependence of feature names and the
actual geometry. - Type the word Thickness in the filter at the top of the FeatureManager. Figure 6.24
shows the result. Notice how quickly the results appear. Notice also that the metadata
item that caused the feature to show in the list can be shown in a tool tip by hovering the
mouse over the feature.
FIGURE 6.24
Using the FeatureManager Filter to search for metadata- Click the X at the right end of the filter to restore the FeatureManager to its original
state, and type the word Pilar instead. Now filter for Thermoform.
Tutorial: Sketching Calculator
Sketches can be used as geometrical calculators. Parametrics can be extremely powerful when you
can define relationships between geometry. In this tutorial, you will set up a sketch to calculate the
complex size and location relationships between the rings of a child’s stacking toy.