BlogEditingGenie
Click a face, say the change
Pick a face on your part and tell Genie what should change. It finds the feature behind that face, edits it, and keeps everything that depends on it in step.
Changing a model you didn’t build, or one you built months ago, usually starts with a hunt: which sketch holds that dimension, and what breaks if you change it? With Genie you point at the thing and say what you want. We clicked the side of the bearing housing’s boss and wrote:
Make this boss 8 mm taller.
What happened
- Genie found the Boss feature behind the clicked face and changed its height from 26 to 34 mm above the flange.
- Everything built on top of it moved with it: the Ø47 bearing seat moved up with the boss’s top face and is still 15 mm deep, and the 1 mm chamfer on the boss’s top edge followed too.
- The kernel measured the new part: 90 × 44 × 90 mm, exactly 8 mm taller. Genie also said what it didn’t re-measure (the seat depth and the chamfers).
Why it helps
- No hunting through the feature tree. You point at geometry, the way you’d explain it to a colleague.
- Design intent survives. Genie edits the feature itself rather than patching the shape, so the model stays parametric and later changes keep working.
- Every change can be undone. Ctrl+Z takes back Genie’s edit in one step.
Try it: click a face, an edge or a hole, then type the change: “two millimetres thicker”, “make this an M8 clearance hole”, “round these edges by 3 mm”.
