I have a latch assy. that was sent to me from a customer that was created in Rhino and he brought it into SW and it was sent to me. Now I need to separate the parts, which I have done. Now each part is STOCK part with no features. Is there away to have it behave like a SW part with features? I tried the feature recognition but it fails.
thank you...
Dan
Dan,
You bought in the assembly as a part, so you have a multi-body part with eight bodies. FeatureWorks gives you an error message that the part contains overlapping solids. Otherwise, it looks like FeatureWorks should be able to do a good job on the parts as they are pretty basic. I would try reimporting the assembly as an assembly. You could also save each of the bodies as a part. Then try FeatureWorks on each part.
Jerry Steiger
Well, I just tried saving the latch body out as a separate part and FeatureWorks still fails. I was able to make it work by saving the body as a Parasolid file, importing the Parasolid file and running FeatureWorks on the new part. I suggest that you save all of the bodies out as Parasolid files and import them again. I'm not sure why this is necessary, but it probably has to do with the fact that the original saved body still has features for all of the other bodies, even though the bodies aren't there.
Message was edited by: Jerry Steiger