Yellow warning triangle in part navigator.

[tomstickland]

I keep getting a Yellow warning triangle with an exclamation mark in it in my part navigator.
Is there any way of interrogating the system so I can see what the warning message is?

 

[tomstickland]

I've found the answer (searching the help system was a waste of time though).

Hover over the feature in the navigator and the message will appear after a few seconds.


In my case it's to do with start and finish thread chamfers in a circular array.
I don't see why it's having a problem though - all the threads go straight through the solid.

 

[uwam2ie]

from docs:
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.

 

[tomstickland]

Where in the docs did you find that? I searched for "yellow triangle", "part navigator warning", "part navigator triangle" and browsed all of the part navigator section.

I was using the help->documentation link.

 

[tomstickland]

I've fixed it anyway - was thread chamfers.

 

[jerry1423]

I remember having problems with the thread end chamfer in NX5 (or NX4?), I just left them off. The start chamfer I was able to leave on.

 

[cowski]

The yellow triangle is a warning that basically says something has changed. The feature has not failed, but the change may cause problems later (such as in uwam2ie's examples) or it may be what you intended (if you extrude a rectangle and later remove one of the input strings the extrude will change from a solid body to a sheet body and you will get the warning). If the change is acceptable, you can right click on the feature and there will be an option to 'clear feature info alert' (or some similar wording) to get rid of the triangle.

The most annoying place I've seen it pop up is on the chamfer command. Depending on the options you pick (I think it is the 'asymmetric' option) the warning will pop up on creation and the message is something like 'when using X options the chamfer may not be exact'.

 

[jerry1423]

I see that the "search" was mentioned here ...
Do not use the search at the very top of this page -
Use the search that is located just under the title of the forum. In this case look for the search tab under "Yellow warning triangle in part navigator"

 

[JohnRBaker]

Perhaps it would help if you thought of them as 'Alerts' which take place during an update, not all that different than the 'Alerts' you may have seen when you've been creating or editing a feature interactively. An 'Alert' does not mean that there was a failure, but merely a condition that you might be interested in knowing about. You can ignore it if you choose and the operation will still complete successfully and a valid model will be the result.

Now in the case of a model update we didn't want to interrupt the process whenever an 'Alert' was generated so we decided to implement instead this 'roadsign-like' icon scheme instead. Now what happens is that sometimes during an update something changed and a condition will arise that again we feel you should at least be aware of even if it does not interfere with the update or result in an invalid model, so we 'flag' the relevant features in the Part Navigator. BTW, you can add an 'Alert' column to the Navigator which will make it easier to spot them as well as what the message might be.

You may also discover that many of these 'Alerts' only appear once, immediately after the modification took place which triggered it, and if you perform a subsequent update or modification, that the 'Alert' is cleared since it's already served its purpose. Other's, like the Chamfer ones, do hang around since that condition is one that persists, even if it has no negative impact on the validity of the model (note that in future releases we probably are going to be a little less 'vocal' about some Chamfer issues since they really are quite normal).

Anyway, I hope this helps explain things a little better.

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