Question
User Defined Features vs Family Tables
I could use some help understanding the differences between User Defined Features and Family Tables, working in Creo 10, how you choose which to use when trying to standardize/parameterize a particular component or feature, and why you would use a User Defined Feature that contains (or otherwise references) a Family Table or vice versa.
Here is my current understanding of the differences:
- User Defined Features
- Created from features in a part file, may or may not maintain references to it (subordinate/standalone)
- Creates a .gph file
- Used with a series of defined prompts that relate to feature parameters (dimensions etc) and placement in the model using it
- Instances as a body or a modification to a body
- Family Tables
- Based around a generic ancestor part file
- Creates additional part files as you create instances
- Used by assembling instances of the relevant part file
- Instances as a part

