Breaking References Solidworks Video Tutorial Linkedin Learning This video is for new users of solidworks who would like to learn how to manage their file referencing part files. You can lock, unlock, or break the external references of components or features created in the context of an assembly and the external references of various types of derived parts.
Performance Hack 002 File Admin Solidworks File References Designing parts using the top down assembly modeling technique can be extremely useful. if a component is designed with the “top down” technique, this means it is born in the assembly environment and it is designed using references to other parts within that assembly. References are more stable inside pdm. as for why the references broke, take a look and try find out there's many possible reasons, learn from your mistakes. external references are likely to break and the part should be built to minimize the damage. i deal with external references on a daily basis. i have not had issues like this. You can break, unlock, or lock external references by using dynamic reference visualization in the featuremanager design tree. see viewing feature relationships. You need to edit these features and remove the external references. when you remove them all, you can edit the part in your new context. when you finalize your design, you should localize all the external references of your fabricated parts. this prevents the problem you just described.
Performance Hack 002 File Admin Solidworks File References You can break, unlock, or lock external references by using dynamic reference visualization in the featuremanager design tree. see viewing feature relationships. You need to edit these features and remove the external references. when you remove them all, you can edit the part in your new context. when you finalize your design, you should localize all the external references of your fabricated parts. this prevents the problem you just described. I have a sheet metal box part that loses its references for seemingly no reason. if i change something anywhere else on the model (for example, cut extrude a hole through the bottom), the references break. But i just found out that the problem is not that the references are lost, but rather that the broken features are corrupt and refuses to "attach" to the line or whatever reference entities. Tips to prevent file reference mismatch: use unique names for all solidworks files. this applies to files of the same extension. you may have a part, drawing, assembly, pdf and word document all of the same name, but not 2 part documents of the same name. In this video we take a brief look at a couple ways to fix missing file references. we will also look at the most common reasons they become broken and best practices that can be used to.
Solidworks File References Softarchive I have a sheet metal box part that loses its references for seemingly no reason. if i change something anywhere else on the model (for example, cut extrude a hole through the bottom), the references break. But i just found out that the problem is not that the references are lost, but rather that the broken features are corrupt and refuses to "attach" to the line or whatever reference entities. Tips to prevent file reference mismatch: use unique names for all solidworks files. this applies to files of the same extension. you may have a part, drawing, assembly, pdf and word document all of the same name, but not 2 part documents of the same name. In this video we take a brief look at a couple ways to fix missing file references. we will also look at the most common reasons they become broken and best practices that can be used to.
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