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Inventor 2017 Feature Recognition Not Asking To Recognize Features

ThePieMonster — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:07:24 GMT

I have Inventor 2017 and downloaded the Feature Recognition add on. However when I go to Open -> CAD Import -> Select my STP file and then Inventor opens the file, I select ok to the default prompts for importing a CAD file and that's it. No where is it asking me to recognize the features of the STP file. I went to add in's in Inventor settings and it shows the Feature Recognizance add in as Automatic/Loaded so I'm not sure why it's not working.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Re: Inventor 2017 Feature Recognition Not Asking To Recognize Features

Mark.Lancaster — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:27:49 GMT

@ThePieMonster

Well it depends on if the information you imported is actually a solid.. It may be just surfaces.. Can you share the STEP file or an image of the Inventor Browser pane so we can see what the data is.

Re: Inventor 2017 Feature Recognition Not Asking To Recognize Features

ThePieMonster — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:38:18 GMT

Thanks for the reply. Are the screenshots below what you are looking for? When I import the same part into Solidworks it has no trouble doing the feature recognition and it was all automatic on import after I selected yes. Is there something that I'm doing wrong in Autodesk? I feel like feature recognition should be a default feature and not some add in as it's causing trouble among users.

Import Prompt

Pane and image of a piece of the part

Re: Inventor 2017 Feature Recognition Not Asking To Recognize Features

JDMather — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:42:33 GMT

@ThePieMonster wrote:

.... When I import the same part into Solidworks....it was all automatic on import after I selected yes. ...

This drives me bananas in SolidWorks as I rarely need to run Feature Recognition when I import parts.

I prefer the Inventor behavior.

But just like in SolidWorks, in Inventor you can always right click on the base solid and invoke Feature Recognition.

Re: Inventor 2017 Feature Recognition Not Asking To Recognize Features

ThePieMonster — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 05:00:09 GMT

Well I did right click the solid and select "recognize features", clicked automatic and then selected all features and faces and clicked apply. It then began to scan the part which took a little while and only seemed to recognize some smaller pieces of the part. It completely ignored larger pieces like the sides, top, and bottom panels which I thought was a bit odd.

Re: Inventor 2017 Feature Recognition Not Asking To Recognize Features

WHolzwarth — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:46:50 GMT

Feature Recognition is only suitable for simple tasks.

It will never succeed with a more complicated model like in your screenshot.