Dynamic Reference Visualization
SOLIDWORKS uses Parent/Child relationships between features. For example if a Cut-Extrude feature has an applied Fillet feature, the Cut-Extrude is the parent and the Fillet is the child. If you suppress the Cut-Extrude feature, the Fillet feature is automatically suppressed. This makes sense since the…
In SOLIDWORKS 2017 the Dynamic Reference Visualization has been redesigned! Dynamic reference arrows have been redesigned to improve clarity in the FeatureManager Design Tree. The white dot shows the originating feature, and the new arrows won’t get in the way of underlying text in the tree….
The dynamic reference visualization has been enhanced in SOLIDWORKS 2016 with the ability to now also show child feature dependency in parts. When you select a feature in the FeatureManager design tree SOLIDWORKS will now point to related parent references in blue and child references in red. You can even…
New in SOLIDWORKS 2015 – Dynamic Reference Visualization [VIDEO]
Another excellent feature that has been added to this 2015 release of SOLIDWORKS is Dynamic Reference Visualization; this is the ability to dynamically see the parent / child relationships between features within the FeatureManager. To quickly view feature dependencies, simply move the mouse cursor over the…