Composite Feature
A composite feature is used to create and analyze laminate and laminate objects. The composite feature can contain one or more internal features. In a part, you can create one or more composite features. The composite features are listed in the Model Tree.
Before you create or redefine a composite feature, make sure you are working in both of the following:
• The generic part and not an instance
• The master representation or automatic representation and not a simplified representation
Create a composite feature as follows:
1. Open a part or an assembly. In an assembly, activate the part in which you want to create the composite feature.
2. Click > . The Composite Design tab opens.
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When you skip this step, an empty composite feature is created in the part.
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4. Click
OK.
| Clicking Cancel exits the Composite Design environment without creating a composite feature. |
In a Composite Design environment, you can use composite materials of the part to create laminate objects. The geometry you define in the composite feature remains inside it. When you create a composite feature, a system-generated composite material, a body, and optionally an IML quilt are usually created in the part. When the geometries defined in the composite feature do not merge, several construction bodies are formed in the part instead of a single body. The regular body or the construction bodies are categorized as the composite bodies.
A composite feature fails when one or more internal features of the composite feature fails. A failed composite feature is identified by
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