Hi folks
I'm currently having problems with two separate parts that have been extruded from the same sketch. As one must fit into the other, every time I've tried resize one of them smaller to fit, the other has annoyingly updated to the new dimension and thus won't fit when I go to assemble. I surprising can't find anything on how to turn off the auto update between these two related parts.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Dave is correct, but if you already have the shared sketches you need to go to the part that uses the sketch from the first part. Then at the top of the feature tree right click on the part number. as you scroll down you will see " List External References" select that and in the dialog box select the check box titled "break external references". This will free the second part from the first. Now you will have to go into the feature sketch and remove those references and re dim the sketch to clear the errors.
Stop using the same sketch to do the 2 different extrudes. If you want to use modified geometry of the first sketch, offset the first in a second sketch. This uses the first geometry but has a slightly different relationship.