From the course: Autodesk Inventor: Configurable Designs and Automation

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Summary and best practices

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Summary and best practices

- [Instructor] In this chapter, we've learned about iFeatures and we should review really quickly what you've learned and then talk about some important considerations that you should go through when you decide to create your own iFeatures. So the first thing we did is we learned how to create a part that is ready to be applied as an iFeature. So we learned how we kept most of the references away from our standard default planes and axes and we learned how we then were able to take that, extract it, and easily place it into our new part. We then learned how to publish the iFeatures, and we learned the importance of making sure that you include all of the different parameters that you want. If you want to give the end user the ability to make changes and to resize the different features as necessary. We then looked at editing actual iFeature parts, which are the IDE format, and we saw how you can actually create tables that allow us to create a family of iFeatures that an end user can…

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