Please simplify the process to create sheet metal punch tools.
There is next to no useful information on how to do this.
The rules regarding centre points and allowable geometry references are arcane and limiting.
The iFeature extraction tool is too limited - I can't select the features/geometry I want to use.
In other CAD packages this process is far simpler. Create the actual punch/anvil geometry you want (not the resulting sheet metal geometry) and specify contact faces and rip/shear faces. That's it. Then it's placed in the sheet metal part using regular assembly constraints. It's all very intuitive.
Compared to this, the process of iFeature extraction is extremely difficult. For what benefit?
And it baffles me that once an iFeature table is added, the original features can't be edited! That is an extremely unhelpful limitation.
For example, I want to add a 3mm deep variant of the attached punch. The attached ide file (it is an ide file but the forum platform rejected that when I attached it, so change the file extension back to ide after downloading) was created many years ago and the original sheet metal model is long gone. The depth doesn't have an explicit dimension so I would need to edit the original features. But I can't! Now I am on a frustrating path of creating a completely new punch tool, which is also proving to be extremely difficult. I'm not alone in experiencing this, judging by the large number of forum posts looking for help with creating punch tools.
