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Is there a way to have the feature name include information like
- Diameter of a Circle

- Z Value of a Plane

- Diameter and Length of a Cylinder
 

I am regularly inspecting hydraulic motor housing and manifolds that have many holes, with many different diameters.

It would be great if as i am creating the feature the feature name can automatically include some detail of the feature that i am creating.

My current workflow is to create a set of features and group them, then rename them like so 'CRL 5.0 #1, CRL 5.0 #2, CRL 5.0 #3' - 'CRL 8.6 #1, CRL 8.6#2'
and so on.
I find that i spend more of my time naming feature over setting measurement strategies and creating characteristics.

 

If this is not possible I am open to advise on how anyone else handles the naming process making it less tedious.
Most of the drawings I am working to at not ballooned, but I have been considering implementing ballooning as I can see how it would make the naming easier.

 

Note - I do not have PCM
Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

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Hallo Sam,

schau mal unter ( Extras, Einstellungen, Arbeitsumgebung, Namensvergabe) vielleicht hilft dir das Weiter.

Gruß Jörg

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I use the Find/Replace feature a lot. I've also dabbled with Name Default. If you go to Extras-Environment-Default Name, Check Activate Name Allocation, open the folder, open the NamePatternsDefault text file and modify the feature/characteristics name to your liking. What this can do: If you have 50 .250 holes, you can change the default name for circle to Circle .250_. Then when you pick each .250 hole it will automatically be called Circle .250_1, Circle .250_2 and so on. It took a lot of trial and error to get it to work how I wanted. The downside is you have to edit the text file any time you want to name different features/characteristics. 

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I have messed around the the Default Names. I was hoping for something more automated, I come from using Esprit CAM where you can make just about anything and everything a formula.

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