Part Design Overview

What it does

Part Design builds parametric 3D parts. Every feature is recorded as history in Design Explorer. You can edit a value at any time and the part recalculates.

Typical workflow

1. Create a Sketch on a plane or a face.
2. Add material with a feature: Extrude, Revolve, Sweep, Loft, Helix.
3. Remove material: Extrude Cut, Revolve Cut, Sweep Cut, Hole Wizard.
4. Finish: Fillet / Chamfer, Draft, Shell, Wrap / Project.
5. Repeat: Mirror, Linear / Circular Pattern, Path Pattern.
6. Set the material and color and the Part Properties for drawings and BOM.
7. Save as .metprt.

Part Design ribbon

For details of every group, see Ribbon and Command Search.

Right-click in the view

• Empty space: Measure, Size Box, Sketch, Edit Sketch, Boss (Extrude/Revolve/Sweep/Loft/Helix), Cut (Extrude/Revolve/Hole Wizard), Fillet, Chamfer, Shell, Mirror, Linear/Circular Pattern, Plane, Rebuild
• Face: Measure, Insert Sketch on Surface, feature color, Edit Feature, Edit Child Sketch, Suppress/Delete Feature, Insert Offset Plane from This Face…, Fillet/Chamfer Edges of This Face, Edit Face Color, Edit Solid Color

See also

• Design Explorer
• Feature Parameters