Inventor has been able to rename modeling browser nodes for a very long time now. But what is the reason for renaming them? Usually it is so you can keep track of your features when the design starts to get large or users start sharing models in the design group. Perhaps the most commonly modified of these is extrusions and holes. The inherit problem with this habit is that when the design changes it may be necessary to change the browser node again which adds steps to the design.
Enter the Feature Rename (click to download) add in created by Allen Gager, Design Engineer and CAD manager at A.T. Ferrell Company. Feature Rename works with Inventor 2009 and 2010 and for both 32 and 64 bit OS.
The feature has really saved me time over my modeling and allows other users to quickly find the features I am discussing without mousing over all the holes and extrusions of my part. As an added bonus to the 2010 version it allows the addition of Multi-Body modeling naming for new solids in the tree. The feature rename tool will also rename features after an edit occurs such as changing a normal drilled hole to a counter bore hole.
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