redefine

[kwsauter]

Maybe I just forgot how to do it, but I'm trying to redefine a feature
and not having much luck at it. I need to redefine the SKETCH, NOT the
feature, but Pro won't let me at the sketch. It keeps throwing me into
the feature, and no matter what I do, it just won't let me at the
sketch, which is totally screwing up my part. How do I get to the
sketch WITHOUT having to edit the feature?

Ken Sauter
DRS Reconnaissance Surveillance and Target Acquisition
Infrared Technologies Division
PO Box 740188
Dallas, TX 75374
469-221-5430
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[dgschaefer]

If the feature has an internal sketch, you have to go through the
feature redefine to get to it. If the sketch is external, you have to
find the sketch in the model tree, select it with the RMB and then
select redefine.

[Rant alert]

This is something that really needs improved. I should be able to get
to the sketch to redefine it through the feature regardless of whether
the sketch is internal or external. Also, although less important to
me, I ought to be able to find the feature that is used by any given
sketch from within the sketch definition.

The flexibility afforded by having the option of external sketches is
nice, but it can make for some disjointed situations where you cannot
get from the feature definition to the sketch definition and visa-versa.

[end rant]

Doug Schaefer

[kwsauter]

You got that right. And it would sure be nice if the feature that
failed, or the sketch is HIGHLIGHTED so I know exactly what failed.
Trying to guess what failed in the middle of a bunch of complex features
while proe is spinning the part all over creation is pretty hard to do,
if possible at all.


Ken Sauter
DRS Reconnaissance Surveillance and Target Acquisition
Infrared Technologies Division
PO Box 740188
Dallas, TX 75374
469-221-5430
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[ArnoldCollett]

You can expand the feature in the model tree to show the internal sketch and then RMB and redefine takes you directly to the sketcher.

Arnold