The following are considered to be features of a part:
Geometric features, such as extruded solids, revolved shells, sketched wires, and rounded edges
Repair operations
Partitions
Datum geometry
If you click mouse button 3 on a feature in the Model Tree, the menu that appears allows you to do the following:
Edit
When you edit a feature, ABAQUS/CAE displays the feature editor. You can either modify the feature's parameters directly or, if applicable, you can modify the sketch that forms the two-dimensional profile or sweep path of a feature.
Regenerate
When you modify features in a complex part, it may be convenient to postpone regeneration until you make all your changes, since regeneration can be time consuming. Select Feature
Regenerate when you are ready to regenerate the part.
Rename
Rename a part.
Suppress
Suppressing a feature temporarily removes it from the definition of the part. A suppressed feature is invisible, cannot be meshed, and is not included in the analysis of the model. You cannot suppress the base feature, and suppressing a parent feature will suppress all of its child features.
Resume
Resuming a feature restores a suppressed feature to the part; resuming a parent feature restores all of its child features. You can choose to resume all features, the set of features most recently suppressed, or a selected feature.
Delete
Deleting a feature removes it from the part. You cannot resume a deleted feature.
Query
When you query a part, ABAQUS/CAE displays information in the message area and writes the same information to the replay file (abaqus.rpy) in the form of comments.
Options
The Feature Options dialog box allows you to tune the regeneration performance of the current model.
