Parent/Child Feature Relationships

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Parent/Child Feature Relationships

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No, I'm not asking about fixing your broken relationship with your father figure, sorry about that.

https://help.solidworks.com/2021/Englis ... nships.htm

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These arrows that show the relationship between parent/children are great. But they only appear to be turned on temporarily. Is there a way to keep them always on? Was that disabled for a specific reason? I feel like I have just forgotten the details.
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They could be on all the time.
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They are enabled or disabled with these options when you RMB on the top of the FeatureManager.
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But they only show up when an item in the tree is selected. They disappear when it is deselected. Is that what you're talking about?
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matt wrote: Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:28 pm But they only show up when an item in the tree is selected. They disappear when it is deselected. Is that what you're talking about?
It seems that when I restart Solidworks, I have re-enable this feature. I would prefer for it to "always be on".
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charlesculp wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:51 am It seems that when I restart Solidworks, I have re-enable this feature. I would prefer for it to "always be on".
As a document setting or a system setting?

Mine seems to remember it on a single document from day to day. Maybe you could set your templates to do that.

Edit: yeah, you can save your templates with the setting.
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It seems to be sporadic, but after flipping it back on forth on a few users, now it works consistently. Once set on any part, it will stay that way for all parts in the future, similar to a system setting. Strange UI.
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charlesculp wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:19 pm It seems to be sporadic, but after flipping it back on forth on a few users, now it works consistently. Once set on any part, it will stay that way for all parts in the future, similar to a system setting. Strange UI.
Hmmm. It should work like a document property, not a system property. And definitely not like a property with a mind of its own. grumph
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matt wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:52 pm Hmmm. It should work like a document property, not a system property. And definitely not like a property with a mind of its own. grumph
Hear, hear. I'm glad it's a system property. I don't want to be turning it on all the time....

I still think we need a GodMode for Solidworks with omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent control. Ya know, something like this:
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