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- Fully Defined Sketch
- A sketch in which every entity appears black because all size and position information is fixed by dimensions or relations, leaving no degrees of freedom.
- Under-Defined Sketch
- A sketch whose entities appear blue, meaning at least one degree of freedom remains and dragging an entity changes its size or position.
- Mid Plane End Condition
- An extrude option that applies the entered depth symmetrically in both directions from the sketch plane, so the depth value equals total thickness.
- Convert Entities
- A sketch tool that copies selected model edges or face boundaries onto the active sketch plane as sketch entities and adds an On Edge relation.
- Through All End Condition
- An extrude or cut option that extends the feature completely through all existing solid geometry in the chosen direction, regardless of its size.
- Construction Geometry
- Sketch entities flagged as construction are excluded from feature profiles but serve as centerlines, revolve axes, or references for patterns and relations.
- Sketch Relation Types
- Relations such as horizontal, vertical, coincident, tangent, concentric, equal, parallel, perpendicular, midpoint, symmetric, collinear, pierce, and fix constrain entities without numeric dimensions.
- Extruded Cut Feature
- A feature that removes material by pushing a closed sketch profile through existing solid geometry, using end conditions such as Blind or Through All.
- Revolve Profile Rule
- The profile must stay entirely on one side of the axis of revolution; crossing the axis produces self-intersecting geometry and the feature fails.
- Sweep Profile and Path
- A sweep moves a profile along a path; the two sketches must touch at the profile start point, typically enforced with a pierce relation.
- Pierce Relation
- A sketch relation that places a sketch point exactly on the curve where a sweep or loft path intersects the sketch plane.
- Shell Feature
- Hollows a solid into a thin-walled part of uniform thickness, optionally removing one or more selected faces so the interior stays open.
- Hole Wizard Standards
- Hole Wizard inserts standard counterbore, countersink, straight, tapped, and pipe tap holes sized from ANSI Inch, ANSI Metric, ISO, DIN, or JIS tables.
- Full Round Fillet
- A fillet type that replaces a selected face with a rounded surface tangent to two adjacent side faces, producing a fully radiused edge.
- Rib Feature
- Creates a thin support wall from an open sketch, with thickness applied to one side, both sides, or with draft, normal to the sketch plane.
- Loft Guide Curves
- Curves connecting corresponding points on loft profiles that control the shape of the transition between sections in addition to the profiles themselves.
- Fixed First Component
- The first component placed in an assembly is fixed by default and shown with an (f) prefix; right-click it and choose Float to allow motion.
- Concentric Mate
- Aligns two cylindrical faces or edges so their axes share one centerline, leaving rotation and translation along that axis free.
- Coincident Mate
- Forces two selected faces, edges, or points to lie on the same plane or line, removing translational degrees of freedom between them.
- Width Mate
- Centers one face, or two parallel faces, between two other parallel faces, and is commonly used to locate tabs inside slots.
- Flexible Subassembly
- A subassembly setting that lets its internal components move according to their own mates when the top-level assembly is solved, instead of staying rigid.
- Interference Detection
- An assembly evaluation tool that finds and lists volumes where components overlap, highlighting each interfering region for review.
- Smart Mate
- A mate created automatically from geometry cues when a component is dragged with the Alt key while an edge or face is highlighted.
- Over-Defined Assembly Mates
- Mates displayed in yellow or red signal redundant or conflicting constraints; MateXpert lists the offending mates so they can be removed.
- Model Items Command
- A drawing command that inserts dimensions, annotations, and reference geometry already stored in the part or assembly into a selected drawing view.
- Driven Dimension
- A drawing dimension that reads an existing model value, appears in gray parentheses, and cannot be edited to change the model.
- Section View
- A drawing view cut by a section line drawn on a parent view, revealing internal geometry with the cut area filled by a hatch pattern.
- Detail View
- An enlarged view of a small region of a parent view, defined by a circle or spline, labeled with a letter and its own scale.
- Auxiliary View
- A projected view folded out perpendicular to a slanted edge of a parent view, showing a face not parallel to any standard projection plane.
- Bill of Materials
- A table anchored to an assembly drawing view that lists item numbers, part numbers, descriptions, and quantities for each component.
- Magnetic Lines
- Balloon leaders snapped to a magnetic line stay aligned with each other, and dragging the line repositions all attached balloons together.
- Sheet Format versus Sheet
- The sheet format holds the reusable border and title block, while the sheet is the drawing page on which views and annotations are placed.