Learn about the new Finish feature added in this release of Inventor.
The new Finish feature enables you to not only specify the appearance of your parts, components and assemblies, but also the manufacturing process such as material coating or surface finish.
All applied finishes are listed in a new Finishes folder in the browser. You can re-order the finishes in the browser node, suppress, rename or delete them.
In Drawings, a new "Parameters - Finish" type category is added to the Leader Text and the Format Text dialogs to enable Finish information to be used in drawing notes. These parameters will automatically be updated if changed in the modelling environment. This enhances your drawing by adding additional manufacturing process information to the documentation.
Each Finish feature setting has a parameter with corresponding unique name in the "Finish Parameters" category in the Parameters dialog. All Finish parameters can be exported. Exported parameters are displayed in iProperties. Note that change in iProperties doesn't affect the model finish feature parameters.
The Finish feature can be captured in Model State, iPart an iAssembly.
For more information see To Assign a Finish to a Component.