Library Features

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by Jeff N, Oct 20, 2004.

  1. Jeff N

    Jeff N Guest

    I need to be able to put a dimple feature on a sheet metal part. I noticed
    the the supplied library 'dimple' is a .sldprt (under Design Library>forming
    tools>embosses) and when placed on the model it becomes a static feature. I
    looked through all the help stuff on Library Features and saw that I needed
    to create the dimple as a .sldlfp in order to set it up so that each
    inserted dimple feature references the dimple.sldlfp part. The reason I need
    to do so is that I may need to change the dimple feature later on and want
    them all to update when I change the library feature part.

    The issues I'm having is figuring out references. I cannot get the feature
    to orient correctly, and I cannot figure out reference dimensions.
    I noticed that all the forming tools are .sldprt files and all the
    sheetmetal cutouts (under the features folder) are .sldlfp files. Why is
    SolidWorks supplying both for features?
     
    Jeff N, Oct 20, 2004
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