Reference feature

[Jacoolo]

Does anybody use Reference feature > IntentSurf/Chain, Datum, Axis etc with success?

I see some potential regarding Autoround but it is hard to see further advantages.

 

[kdem]

Some other advatages are searching, placing on layers, auto-placing UDF features (haven't tried this one), and projecting a curve or sketch onto surfaces that you would need to select individually.You can also use the reference feature as trajectory referencesfor a VSS, Swept Blend, or Sweep.

 

[Jacoolo]

still finding appropriate valuable examples of potential advantages comes hard to me. If I am up to select several curves for VSS among other existing it means I`ve got a mess in my model. It could be an issue if these curves comes out of my model, from assembly, but then Reference feature does not work on this level, and I would use publish geom instead.

I found some potential of Intentchain in Sketcher when it bounds edges from different features, which can not be selected at once by Intentchain directly from Reference window in sketcher.