Hello everyone, I'm working on a prototype part that I'm making lots of little adjustments on as I test out different shapes and features to see how they might work. It's a pretty simple piece just using a couple extruded sketches and cuts, but since I'm constantly making changes I keep getting error messages from features further down the tree from sketches saying they are missing dimensions or relations when I make changes to the first feature sketch. Initially I thought it was because I was sometimes using a face on the part to make a sketch plane that I would then use for another feature, but after using nothing but the origin planes for my sketches and still getting the error I'm not really sure how to prevent it from happening, or how to quickly fix the issue besides deleting the feature and redrawing it.
Thanks!
Hi Matthew,
If I am understanding you correctly, you are telling us that you are creating a solid and then modifying step by step sometimes by editing previous (or the initial) sketches. If this is the case, then what you need to realise is that as you proceed with your model your features are dependent on the sketches that you create. If you then go back up the feature up the feature tree and edit a sketch you may be removing some of the elements that the features lower on the tree are relying on, hence the errors. I don't know how much knowledge or experience you have with SolidWorks and I'm sorry if this sounds condescending but it is pretty basic stuff. Of course, my comments are based on my interpretation of your question.
If you can attach you model then forum members can clearly see where the issue may be and help you resolve the issue.
Dave.