iFeatures save both time and money! By capturing commonly used features or groups of features once you are able to minimize the effort required to reuse these features in other design situations. By accurately capturing these features one time, you can ensure they can be reused repeatedly and correctly.
In this tutorial, you learned how to:
- Extract existing features and save them as an iFeature.
- Place an iFeature precisely in an active design.
- Create a table to drive a family of iFeatures.
- Place iFeatures from a family using a key value.
- That once placed, iFeatures are no longer associated to the IDE file that defines the iFeature.
What Next? As a next step, consider editing the TSlot-table.ipt to contain parallel sets of T Slot features spaced on 111-mm centers. Assemble the Cylinder Clamp assembly to the table top using the supplied TNut.ipt and M10x1.5 socket head cap screws from the Content Center. In addition to catalogs of iFeatures, Autodesk Inventor also supports iPart and iAssembly functionality that extends the concept of a family of features to families of parts and assemblies.