SolidWorks FeatureWorks

With FeatureWorks, sharing data between different CAD systems is easy. The first parametric feature recognition software for SolidWorks 3D CAD users, FeatureWorks enables more productive sharing of 3D models between SolidWorks and other CAD systems.

When importing files into SolidWorks, FeatureWorks applies intelligence to static geometric data, recognizes it, and then readies it for use in SolidWorks. Fine-tuning imported designs is simple with the functionality of SolidWorks. Imported features like holes, cuts, and chamfers are fully editable, associative, and parametric. You can even create new features at any time.

FeatureWorks captures all imported data and recognizes features from files produced by standard translators such as STEP, IGES®, SAT (ACIS®), VDA-FS, and Parasolid® files. Ideal for geometrically regular parts, FeatureWorks recognizes all these features:

• Extrusion features such as bosses and cuts of the following sketch entities: lines, circles, and circular arcs
• Revolved features that are conical or cylindrical
• Any standard hole types, such as simple, tapered, and counterbored
• Sheet metal features including edge flange, sketch and bend, and base features
• Random sketch patterns of features on a plane
• Shell features such as uniform wall and shell inward only
• Ribs and draft features
• Constant and variable-radius fillets
• Applied features such as chamfers and fillets