SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Part II: Building Intelligence into Your Parts

Caution
Some of the relations listed in the Display/Delete Relations dialog box may be colored to signify the state of
the relation. Unfortunately, colored relations are typically placed at the top of the list to attract attention, but
when you select them, they are always gray, and so the advantage of color-coding is always defeated for the
first relation in the list. The only way around this is to select a relation other than the first one in the list. If
there is only one relation in the list, you cannot see the state color. n

A setting in Tool ➪ Options controls the display of errors. You can choose Tools ➪ Options ➪

FeatureManager to find an option called Display Warnings, where you can choose Always, Never,

and All but Top Level. When a sketch contains sketch relations with errors, they display as warn-

ing signs on the sketch, and will propagate to the top level of a part or assembly if you have

selected the Always option.

SketchXpert

The SketchXpert, shown in Figure 6.3, can help you to diagnose and repair complex sketch

relation problems. The Diagnose button at the top creates several possible solutions that you can

toggle through using the forward and backward arrow buttons in the Results panel. The Manual

Repair button displays all the relations with errors in a window where you can delete them

manually.

By selecting the option at the very bottom of the dialog box, you can make the SketchXpert appear

any time that a sketch error occurs. To display the SketchXpert manually instead of automatically,

you can access it by right-clicking in a sketch.

FIGURE 6.3

The SketchXpert dialog box