Part Navigator question 1

[Crocostimpy]

I get a little yellow triangle with an excamation point in it next to a feature in the Part Navigator every once in a while. So far they've only been next to sketches. I assumed it meant "Hey CAD guy, look at me, there's something wrong here, you should probably fix it." But wjen I go back into the sketch nothing appears to be wrong. The sketch is fully constrained. No pink or orange.

I've gone so far as to delete every constraint and recreate them in an attempt to get rid of the symbol, but I can never get rid of it. They stay there forever and so far the sketches have not given me any trouble. I suppose that's ok, but it really bugs me that they're there. Anybody know what they mean?

Mike

 

[SiW979]

Have you tried Tools > Upadate > Update Session? Not sure what version of NX you are running.

Best regards

Simon (NX4.0.4.2 MP4 - TCEng 9.1.3.6.c)

http://www.jcb.com

Life shouldn't be measured by the number of breaths you take, but by those extraordinary times when it's taken away...

 

[jerry1423]

I believe you can get rid of that yellow triangle by doing a right mouse click on the component (in the ANT) and someplace on that menu is "clear" (or something like that). I am not at work right now so I cannot be more precise at what to do.
You are right at why that triangle may appear, but many times I ignore them because the reason that it is there is because of a minor issue.

 

[Crocostimpy]

Sorry, this is NX5. I just did the Update Session and it didn't change anything.

Mike

 

[CEGraves]

PRODUCT: NX
SUBJECT: What does the yellow triangle exclamat in the PNT tool mean?

SUBMITTED BY: WALTER SCHNURR SUBMITTED DATE: 09/27/2007
IR #: 5817926 DOCUMENT ID: 001-5817926
PLATFORM: INTEL OPERATING SYSTEM: WINDOW
OS VERSION: XP32_SP2 PRODUCT VERSION: V5.0.1

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HARDWARE/SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION
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NX5 Design
All Platforms

SYMPTOM/PROBLEM
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What does it mean when yellow triangle with exclamation with a sketch feature
in the Part Navigation Tool (PNT)?

SOLUTION/WORKAROUND
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When hovering the icon with the cursor, there will be a clue as to what is
missing in the constraints. For example it might indicate that the horizontal
reference is missing, or that an edit might cause dimension and curves to flip.
This is caused by incorrect associated attachments of sketch to the datum
plane or datum axis. Edit the sketch and Reattach until the condition is
corrected.

 

[Crocostimpy]

@ Jerry
Did the Clear Information Alerts and they are still there.

@CEGraves
I don't get anything when I hover on the feature name or the alert. If I right-click on the feature and pick Info it says that the sketch is fully constrained.

My guess is that this is one of those weird issues I seem to have that defies logic and that no one else seems to have. I can live with it I guess because they don't seem to affect anything. I was just curious as to what they were.

Mike

 

[CEGraves]

I get it when I make the Part Navigator the active window by clicking in the Part Navigator then hovering over the word Sketch.

 

[Crocostimpy]

Well, they're gone now, but I'm exactly sure how it happened. My Part Navigator is tacked to the NX window, so I could never really make it 'active'. It seemed active all the time. So I untacked it and opened it in a separate window. Still got nothing when hovering over 'sketch'. I inadvertently picked the first sketch (I had three in a row that had the triangle), which turned it off, which turned off a bunch of children. When I turned it back on, everything regenerated, and all three of the triangles are gone now. I'm happy they're gone but I wish I knew why they wouldn't go away before. I had picked View - Operation - Regenerate Work numerous times while working and they never went away. Perhaps that's a different kind of regenerate???

Thanks to everybody for the suggestions.

Mike

 

[hudson888]

Without seeing the data one can never be really sure why your sketch is adrift. As a guess it may either have lost the reference to either a positioning dimension or some other external constraint applied to individual elements within the sketch itself.

When you see that symbol it means WARNING it isn't necessarily an error so the model will continue to function despite the deficiency that one or more of its parameters aren't working. What that means for you is that you cannot expect that parameter to continue to function as you might otherwise expect if you change the surrounding geometry. Many times you know that you're not particularly likely to do so and for some circumstances people are reasonably happy to tolerate such warning messages. Especially on sketches once they have examined and understood that there is no real risk of downstream consequence.

Best Regards

Hudson

www.jamb.com.au

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[Simon205]

Also, (if you can't see error messages by hovering over them) then at the top of the part navigator right-click on the 'Name' field title, then go Columns > Alerts.

They should then be displayed on the RH side of the part navigator.