Feature Editor tab

Detect panel

Detect Features — Click to display the Interactive Feature Detection dialog.

Create 2D Features panel

Pocket — Select an item from the Pocket menu to create new pocket features:

• Rectangular pocket — Click to create a rectangular pocket feature.
• Circular pocket — Click to create a circular pocket feature.
• Freeform pocket — Click to create a freeform pocket feature from curves or surfaces.

Boss — Select an item from the Boss menu to create new boss features:

• Rectangular boss — Click to create a rectangular boss feature.
• Circular boss — Click to create a circular boss feature.
• Freeform boss — Click to create a freeform boss feature from curves or surfaces.

Slot — Click to create a slot feature from a curve.

Face — Select an item from the Face menu to create new milling face features:

• Unbounded Milling Face — Click to create an unbounded face feature.
• Bounded Milling Face — Click to create a bounded face feature from a curve.

Side — Click to create a side feature from curves or surfaces. Use this option to create features for side faces, cavities, or non-symmetrical channels.

Create Turning Features panel

Profile — Click to create a turning profile feature from a curve.

Groove — Select an item from the Groove menu to create new turning groove features.

• Freeform Groove — Click to create a freeform groove feature from a curve.
• Parametric Groove — Click to create a groove feature from specified parameters.

Turning face — Click to create a turning face feature.

Bore — Click create a bore feature from a curve.

Edit panel

Settings — Click to edit the selected feature.

Open Regions — Click to edit the open regions of a selected pocket using the Open Region Editor tab.

Delete Selected — Click to delete a selected feature.

Feature Colour — Click to edit the colour of a selected feature.

Feature Hierarchy — Click to display the 2D Feature Hierarchy dialog.

Profile Curve — Click to edit the profile curve of a selected feature using the Curve Editor tab.

Tolerance panel

Tolerance — Controls whether the feature you are creating is treated as a child of a larger feature. If the distance between the features is less than or equal to the specified tolerance, the new feature is treated as a child of the existing feature; if the distance between the features is greater than the specified tolerance, the features are treated as separate and the new feature has a new Z level in the hierarchy.

For example, if you create a boss feature within a pocket feature:

• A small tolerance requires the lower face of the boss to lie on, or close to, the lower face of the pocket to recognise the boss as the pocket's child feature.
• A large tolerance value enables the boss feature to be recognised as a child if it is slightly misplaced.

Selection panel

Select — Select an option from the Select menu to control how to select features. The selected features are yellow, the available features are purple:

• Select All — Click to select all features.
• Select Toggle — Click to deselect the selected features and select the deselected features.
• Select Invalid — Click to select all the invalid features in the model.

Utilities panel

Snap when Resizing — Click to toggle between: snapping using the intelligent cursor; or disabling snapping.

The CTRL key temporarily disables snapping.

History panel

Undo — Click to undo your changes.

Redo — Click to reinstate the changes you have undone.

Finish panel

Accept — Click to accept and keep all the created features and close the Feature Editor tab

Cancel — Click to delete all the created features and close the Feature Editor tab.