Chapter 18: Working with Library Features
- Auto-create a design table by choosing Insert ➪ Design Table and then selecting the
Auto-Create option. Edit the design table to look like Figure 18.18. Hide or delete extra
columns that don’t match the data shown.
FIGURE 18.18
The design table for the SpecialHole featureTip
Remember that to fill the first two columns up to Size5, you can make the two-by-two selection of the Size1
and Size2 entries in the first two columns and pull down the handle in the lower-right corner of the selection
box until the appropriate boxes are filled. n
- Manually fill in the C’Bore Dia values, but in cell D3, type the equation =C3/2+.25.
Then use the same Fill technique to populate cells D3 to D7. Click outside of the Design
Table to close it. - Test the configurations to make sure that they all work.
- In the Design Library, browse to a folder where you would like to put this library
feature. (Make sure that it is not used by assemblies or sheet metal forming tools.) Click
a face created by the SpecialHole feature and drag the feature into the lower pane of the
Design Library. The Add to Library PropertyManager should appear on the left. - Although you selected a feature and dragged it into the library, the Items to Add
field appears blank. Select the SpecialHole, tapped hole, and circular pattern features
using Ctrl+select for multiple selections, either through the detachable PropertyManager,
the split FeatureManager, or the flyout FeatureManager. Selecting the features from the
graphics window does not work. - Position and zoom the view of the part so that when it is saved, you see a good pre-
view of the library feature. Also, if you have not changed your background color from
blue to white, this would be a good time to do so.