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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">User Defined Features (UDF)</div>
      <hr noshade="true"><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap398"></a><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap399"></a><p class="para_topic">User defined features in NX replace part, feature, and section catalogs in I-deas.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/icons/icon_udf.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">User Defined Features</b> 
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      <p class="para_topic">To create your own library of user defined features:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Create and place the feature as it will be used in a part.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">File</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Export</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">User Defined Feature</b></p>
            <p class="para_item">The <b class="uiTerm">User Defined Feature Wizard</b> will prompt you through a sequence to create the feature.
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            <p class="para_item">Name the feature.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Define the features to be included.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Define parameters the user will enter when the feature is used.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Define placement faces and edges.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">To use a user defined feature:</p>
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Insert</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Design Feature</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">User Defined Feature</b></p>
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            <p class="para_item">Select the feature from the library.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Define the required parameters.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Position the feature using the placement face and edges.</p>
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      </ol><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap400"></a><p class="para_topic">User defined features can also be used to store standard sketch sections, similar to I-deas section catalogs.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">See also:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Help: <img align="bottom" src="graphics/widgets/book_closed.gif" border="0"> Design &rarr; Modeling &rarr; Modeling Tools &rarr; User Defined Feature (UDF)
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