The Parent and Children command enables you to view the
genealogical relationships between the different components of a part.
It also shows links to external references and explicitly provides the name of the documents containing these references. If the specification tree already lets you see the operations you performed and re-specify your design, the graph displayed by the Parent and Children capability proves to be a more accurate analysis tool. We recommend the use of this command before deleting any feature. |
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Open the Parent_R9.CATPart document. | ||||||
If you cannot see the element of interest in the specification tree because you have created a large number of elements, right-click this element in the graph then select the Center Graph contextual commands: the element will be more visible in the specification tree. | ||||||
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Parent/Children Applied to Dress-Up Features |
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The application builds a dress-up feature using edges or faces
belonging to a feature of any kind previously created. The geometry of this feature is then considered as parent to the dress-up feature. As design goes on, the application computes specifications from the geometry preceding dress-up features. This geometry can then be different from the initial geometry used to build dress-up features if you have inserted intermediate features. Applying Parent/Children to a dress-up feature does not display the most recent geometry preceding the feature in the specification tree. The capability always displays the geometry initially used as the parent of the dress-up feature. Conversely, when editing a dress-up feature, the application always shows the geometry used to compute the feature. These different behaviors explain why for a given dress-up feature, the geometry displayed by the application depends on whether using Parent/Children or Edit. The parents displayed for a dress-up feature are not necessarily the features preceding it in the specification tree. |