I have read about all of the great new enhancements in SolidWorks 2009 but sometimes you don’t realize how nice they will be until you actually see them in action. As is the case with the above picture. This morning I was working on a component and had added a feature above the chamfers in my FeatureManager tree. Well it caused some errors with missing references for the chamfers so when I went in to fix them I received this nice preview of what was going on. First you will notice in the graphics window that it is showing the ghost images of where my chamfers used to be along with it being highlighted in the PropertyManager. This is great because it will allow me to quickly delete missing references and re-associate them to new faces or edges (in the case of chamfers or radii).
If you haven’t already switched to SolidWorks 2009 you can download SP1 in the Downloads and Updates page of the SolidWorks Customer Portal as long as you are a subscription customer. To see a list of some of the things that were fixed in SP1 you can check out the Fixed SPR’s page or download the What’s New in SolidWorks 2009 PDF document.
Drop me a comment of other new features that you like even more after seeing them in action.
I just had to do this with some faces. HUGE difference in time it takes to fix problems. great post!
Jason,
If you edit the feature with the error, and then click ok without doing anything else, it will ask you if you want to automatically delete the missing references. That way you don’t need to select all the references in the list, then right clcik, and then select delete. It’s faster to just let SW delete them automatically!
Great additional tip Mike! Thanks for the input, I didn’t realize that it would do this. Thanks again.