Hi,
there is something with the feature tree order of features that I don't understand.
I am trying to reuse a surface and it's sketch. I deleted the relations that the sketch had and dragged them both to the bottom. When I tried to edit the sketch and give it some relations everything above it, up until its original location, got greyed out - not making it impossible to reuse.
Can anyone tell me why this is happening?
Thank you
Anton Ivanov wrote:
Hi,
there is something with the feature tree order of features that I don't understand.
I am trying to reuse a surface and it's sketch. I deleted the relations that the sketch had and dragged them both to the bottom. When I tried to edit the sketch and give it some relations everything above it, up until its original location, got greyed out - not making it impossible to reuse.
Can anyone tell me why this is happening?
Thank you
Hi Anton,
It seems to me that even though you deleted the sketch relations, all the surfaces that are greyed out are children of the surface and sketch you moved. Once you moved them the features that are children are suppressed.
Depending on which version of the software you're using if you hover over a feature it will show you that features parents and children.
You could leave the surface and sketch where they were and still reuse them.
Hope this helps.
Hi Tony,
that's the part I don't understand. There are no relations to the grey features above - no arrows pointing to above and none listed when you do Show Parent/Children Relations. Only relation is to the Top Plane.
Anton Ivanov wrote:
Hi Tony,
that's the part I don't understand. There are no relations to the grey features above - no arrows pointing to above and none listed when you do Show Parent/Children Relations. Only relation is to the Top Plane.
Actually, now that I think about it some more, Solidworks won't let you move features below their children in the feature tree.
Maybe when you removed all the relations the features that are now suppressed became "orphans"? Does your model rebuild without errors?
Anton Ivanov , you can move features and it will look like the sketch goes with it, however, the sketch never actually moved.
You will see this if you switch to Flat Tree View:
Then you can move the sketch where you want it and then turn off flat tree view.
wow that's incredible. Thank you. I still remember the frustrations I had when trying to create a folder in the feature tree in a Flat Tree View.
Not a problem. Just glad to help. I had the same issue a while ago and ran into the flat tree view.
