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david

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Jul 23, 2008, 11:33:16 AM7/23/08
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Hi all,
I keep getting an error box telling me that I must reorder features in
the featuremanager design tree to create a valid configuration and
parent-child relationship because I have child feature appearing
before it's parent feature. I've checked in the design tree and this
isn't the case. How do I turn this warning off?
Tool/options/feature manager/show warnings/never has no effect.
There are a lot of configurations of this part in the top level
assembly so it's taking for ever to acknowledge all the warnings every
time I switch from part to assembly and back again.
Thanks,
David

david

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Jul 25, 2008, 3:00:46 AM7/25/08
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Is there nobody out there that can help me with this one?
Thanks,
David

Jerry Steiger

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Jul 27, 2008, 5:00:08 PM7/27/08
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"david" <da...@synapsedesign.co.uk> wrote in message
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David,

If you are running 2008, you can tell it ignore any particular error
messages. I think you can select to ignore with a checkbox in the message.
If you are running an earlier version, there is a little utility called
"Push the Freakin' Button" that does pretty much the same thing. Search for
that phrase on google and pick a site to download it from.

Jerry Steiger

david

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Jul 28, 2008, 5:31:14 AM7/28/08
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Hi Jerry,
Thanks for responding. I've just downloaded the 30 day trial & I'll
give it a go.
Regards,
David

david

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Jul 28, 2008, 7:02:24 AM7/28/08
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Hi Jerry,
Thanks for that. It works a treat.
David

TOP

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Jul 29, 2008, 6:59:14 AM7/29/08
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What does your feature tree look like?

Can you roll back one feature at a time till the error stops?

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david

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Jul 30, 2008, 8:58:41 AM7/30/08
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It only pops up when you open the part file or when you open an
assembly that contains it. I've looked at the parent/child
relationship for the items in the feature tree that the error refers
to and they look okay! I'm at a loss really. It's making the whole job
run at about 30% efficiency at the moment.
David

david

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Jul 30, 2008, 9:41:48 AM7/30/08
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Very Strange. The offending features are suppressed in all but one
configuration and that configuration has a different parent/child
relationship than all the others. Solidworks is quite happy with the
relationship in that configuration but in all the others it has the
parent/child relationship for the same features reversed and
consequently flags it as an error! How can that be?
David

david

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Jul 30, 2008, 9:51:24 AM7/30/08
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Sorted. I deleted one of the features (the one without any children in
the unsuppressed configuration) and just recreated it. Consequently
the parent/child relationship in all the suppressed configurations was
removed. No error message!

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