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## Form Features

You may either create form features or use those provided by STAEDTLER.
Before being able to use the form feature it has to be created and saved (SAVE FORMFEATURE). Then the form feature may be used for the construction of parts (INCLUDE FORMFEATURE; positioning via drawing management) or reloaded for further manipulations (LOAD FORMFEATURE). The form feature located within a part can also be switched off (change visibility; FADE FORMFEATURE), modified (MODIFY FORMFEATURE) or deleted (DELETE FORMFEATURE).
All form features belonging to a part or component may displayed in a list or put out into a file.
The form feature may be connected to other geometries or form features parametrically. For example, an interdependence between the position or dimension of a form feature and other form features may be added.
Each form feature has an own item number. In addition, it may have an own characteristics bar, which remains even after the positioning and via which the form feature may be modified at any time. For this purpose a form feature may be selected from the variation management in the main menu. The content of the characteristics bar then refers to this form feature.
In each form feature there is a point called FeKPunkt, which represents the origin of co-ordinates. If the list of form features is put out into a file, the co-ordinates of this point are also part of the list.
For further information about and explanations of this topic please see the help text of the command INCLUDE FORMFEATURE. Please click the form feature icon ( symbolizes a boring and a slot) under the command INCLUDE FORMFEATURE with the right mouse button.