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A feature provides a shorthand by which information can be communicated quickly and efficiently. At their essence, features are an efficient and powerful means of information transfer. To engineers, “features,” and the information they represent, are of interest in many types of analysis. The particular type of analysis defines what specific “features” are germane. In an engineering environment, features are often associated with both manufacturing and design information. Because of this application-dependent aspect, attempts to precisely define what a feature is have come up short. It is more or less agreed upon amongst researchers that a feature is a “physical part of an object being mappable to a generic shape and having functional significance” (van Holland and Bronsvoort, 1995). Beyond this, attempts at defining “generic shape” and “functional significance” often involve generating large taxonomies of feature shapes and functions (Shah, 1988).
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Bezdek, E.J., Thompson, D.C., Wood, K.L., Crawford, R.H. (1999). Volumetric Feature Recognition for Direct Engineering. In: Kamrani, A.K., Sferro, P.R. (eds) Direct Engineering: Toward Intelligent Manufacturing . Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4941-3_2
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