Part Creation

Sketched Features
Sketched features include:
Extrude
Revolve
Sweep
Loft (Blend)
Others (e.g., Rib, Coil)
Sketched Feature Operations
Boolean operations are included as
part of the feature construction.
Operations include:
Join (Union)
Cut (Subtract)
Intersect
Sketched Feature Terminations
Through (All) – extrude all the way through a part
Blind (Distance) – extrude to a fixed depth
To Next – extrude to next
surface
From To – extrude from one
existing surface to another
To – extrude to selected
surface
Angle – revolve through a
certain angle
Full – revolve 360 degree
Base Feature
Base
The base feature is Feature
the first model
feature to be
created
Other features are
created using
constraints that
locate them relative
to the base feature
Adding Sketched Features
Establish a sketch
plane (share sketch)
Sketch
Constrain
 Some constraints
used to relate new
feature to base
feature
Create Feature
 Extrude, Join
Another Sketched Feature
New sketch plane
Sketch
Constrain
Dimension

Create Feature
Extrude
Cut
Sketched Feature Requiring a
Work Plane
If there are no convenient
faces that can be used to
orient a sketch plane, a
work plane must be created
Sketch, constrain
Create feature
Extrude, Join
Placed (Referenced) Features
Placed features are
features that do not
require a sketch
Examples include
holes, chamfers,
fillets and shells
NOTE: In Inventor,
holes require that
center points be
placed on sketch
plane prior to
feature creation
Parent-Child Relationships
Parent-child relationship refers to way in which
one feature is derived from, and consequently
dependent upon another feature
Child must appear below parent in feature tree
Base feature is parent to all other features
Parent deleted  child deleted
Feature Modifications
Part Creation

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