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Locking geometry will not eliminate any inferred Sketch Constraints on page
169. You will not be able to edit entities in a way that would break those
constraints.
Features
This page describes the concept of “Features” in Inventor Fusion.
A Feature in Inventor Fusion is essentially a collection of faces that represents
a shape corresponding to a mechanical feature.
Inventor Fusion uses the Direct Modeling paradigm as opposed to the
Parametric Modeling paradigm used by Inventor. As a result, the concept of
a Feature in Inventor Fusion is a little different. The main differences are:
1 Features in Inventor Fusion are not “ordered”, in that the order in which
they are created and represented in the browser does not affect how the
model behaves under further operations.
2 A feature created in Inventor Fusion exists only as long as it is “valid”,
for example, the shape defined by the feature conforms to the definition
of the feature. If you create an Extrude feature and then tweak one of the
faces created by the Extrusion using the Move command such that the
Extrude is no longer valid, the Extrude feature ceases to exist.
3 Features in Inventor Fusion that offer the Edit function are edited
“directly”, for example, editing the feature does not cause a cascading
effect on other features in the model as it would in a history-based
modeler.
Inventor Fusion provides the following Features:
■ Extrusion
■ Revolution
■ Sweep
■ Loft
■ Hole
■ Fillet
■ Chamfer
■ Shell
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