Solidworks 2009: Ghost Images
How many times do you get a fillet with an error, and you open it up and Solidworks tells you the fillet is missing one edge? How often can you actually remember what that fillet was filleting? Solidworks 2009 is here to help. Lets take a look.
In this image, we can see a very nice fillet on two of the rectangular holes cut through this brass part:
Now a few months down the road, a change is made to remove one of the rectangular slots. Guess what happens:
You now have a fillet feature with rebuild errors. Well instead of calling your VAR and waking up the application engineer, you edit the feature, and Solidworks 2009 will help you out:
Solidworks will give you red dashed lines showing where the missing edges used to be. This will hopefully jar your memory into what the original intent was, and you can quickly fix it.
I think this is one of the most overlooked technologies in the new release of SW 2009. Repair in SW is incredible compared to other platforms. I can't tell you how many times I've had to delete and start over in Inventor because of its lack of repair options.
Posted by: chad | August 23, 2008 at 11:46 AM
This is probably the most arrogant answer to a problem I have ever heard. Have you guys never heard of diplomacy?
Posted by: Larry Reynolds | August 21, 2008 at 06:03 PM
OUTSTANDING, I'm glad to see they did this because it happens all the time.
Steve
Posted by: Steve Calvert | August 20, 2008 at 08:21 AM