Shape Feature will not be supported in SW 2010
Shape Feature will not be supported in SW 2010
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Has anyone seen this message in 09:
Warning Shape Feature1 - The Shape Feature will not be supported in SolidWorks 2010. We recommend that you replace this feature by a Freeform feature type.
While I am not a big fan of this feature, it was very useful to the industrial design of the shape of this one product, where a feature set that used the shape feature early on made a base shape was saved as six different parts (didn't do configs v parts cause the shape wasn't going to change), which were all placed and mated with the same planes in an assembly, and then in-contextualy edited to form 6 idfferent parts all based on this initial shape. Now all parts and assemblies are compaining about the shape feature and telling me to replace it with a free form. There is no way this can happen as it blows things up, and there are a couple hundred features after this shape feature in each part. It looks like this part will never make it into 2010, or I'm gonig to have to dump these parts as parasolids.
Does anyone else use shape just so I know before I make a request to SW to keep it?
rfus
Warning Shape Feature1 - The Shape Feature will not be supported in SolidWorks 2010. We recommend that you replace this feature by a Freeform feature type.
While I am not a big fan of this feature, it was very useful to the industrial design of the shape of this one product, where a feature set that used the shape feature early on made a base shape was saved as six different parts (didn't do configs v parts cause the shape wasn't going to change), which were all placed and mated with the same planes in an assembly, and then in-contextualy edited to form 6 idfferent parts all based on this initial shape. Now all parts and assemblies are compaining about the shape feature and telling me to replace it with a free form. There is no way this can happen as it blows things up, and there are a couple hundred features after this shape feature in each part. It looks like this part will never make it into 2010, or I'm gonig to have to dump these parts as parasolids.
Does anyone else use shape just so I know before I make a request to SW to keep it?
rfus






RE: Shape Feature will not be supported in SW 2010
RE: Shape Feature will not be supported in SW 2010
Matt Lorono
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Silicon Valley, CA
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RE: Shape Feature will not be supported in SW 2010
A good example would be Excel BOM. They arent really featured anymore as the SW BOMs are now better for the job. You can however still use them when opening an old part.
We'll see.
RE: Shape Feature will not be supported in SW 2010
We aren't very big, so I doubt they will bend over backwards. There is no way to perfectly recreate this shape by using freeform, so their suggestion is no good.
rfus
RE: Shape Feature will not be supported in SW 2010
I think I would be finding out, before throwing a fit over something that may still support if you use it in the past.
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RE: Shape Feature will not be supported in SW 2010
The warning is very explicit.