Mysterious ( i ) next to a feature help?

[pkquat]

I can't seem to get any information about it. I don't see any points off in space. What am I missing?

I deleted and recreated the feature (a set of holes) and I got the same ( i ).

This started from a part where a cutout was removed from the first extrusion and I was left with a pink dot. I deleted the reference line with the pink dot, lost a bunch of dimensions, projected the new line, and re-dimensioned. Its worked before.

Pete

[Anonymous]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:42:31 +0000, pkquat <> wrote:

>I can't seem to get any information about it. I don't see any points off in space. What am I missing?
>
>I deleted and recreated the feature (a set of holes) and I got the same ( i ).
>
>This started from a part where a cutout was removed from the first extrusion and I was left with a pink dot. I deleted the reference line with the pink dot, lost a bunch of dimensions, projected the new line, and re-dimensioned. Its worked before.
>
>Pete

Well can't really tell you why it is, but it appears that the
construction lines in the sketch caused the i to appear.

I removed the construction lines and used sketch constraints instead
to position the holes along with the required dimensions. Away went
the i...

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Stephan
2003 Yamaha R6

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[Anonymous]

Wow! 2 in 1 day! See icon meaning thread from a couple hours ago.

wrote in message news:5220722@discussion.autodesk.com...
I can't seem to get any information about it. I don't see any points off in
space. What am I missing?

I deleted and recreated the feature (a set of holes) and I got the same (
i ).

This started from a part where a cutout was removed from the first extrusion
and I was left with a pink dot. I deleted the reference line with the pink
dot, lost a bunch of dimensions, projected the new line, and re-dimensioned.
Its worked before.

Pete

[smjanows]

Yes this is strange. I decoupled the sketches from each other and moved your problematic stetch to the end. So all your dimensions in this version are gone as well as the construction geometry to try to isolate the problematic features.

It seems like 3 holes in the sketch are causing all the problems. Those points are not included in the holes and the ! disappeared.

[Anonymous]

Pete,

This is indeed a weird one. I delete the vertical dimension of 2.25in and
recreate the dimension and update the part. The feature becomes healthy.
Regarding why the (i) appears, I have to forward it to development for
review.
Thanks!

Johnson Shiue
Test Engineer
Autodesk
(email: johnsonDOTshiueATautodeskDOTcom)
wrote in message news:5220722@discussion.autodesk.com...
I can't seem to get any information about it. I don't see any points off in
space. What am I missing?

I deleted and recreated the feature (a set of holes) and I got the same (
i ).

This started from a part where a cutout was removed from the first extrusion
and I was left with a pink dot. I deleted the reference line with the pink
dot, lost a bunch of dimensions, projected the new line, and re-dimensioned.
Its worked before.

Pete

[Anonymous]

Sometimes you'll get one of these informational warnings if your sketch has
lost its parent face or coordinate system.

[pkquat]

Don't those normally show up on the sketch? I did try a redefine the sketch face, but that did not have an effect so I didn't save that. I didn't check coords, but as mentioned I thought that was related to sketch information and IV usually tells me more about those errors.

Pete

[pkquat]

I will give that a shot, and I can speculate to the cause of why that has an effect. This part was a living part as such. A base design that changed many times. I tried to keep the holes to keep the mates. How the part was defined changed often.
The 2.25 dimension changed a few times to a reference dim and back again. The 2.25 dim and the construction line it is tied to were indirectly related to the "pink dot". A dimension from projected geometry had controlled the location of the construction line. This dim also changed to and from a reference dim. At the time of the incident (lol) this dim was not reference and the 2.25 dim was a reference dim.


The part originally had a cut on the right side of the first sketch. This was removed and the lower line extended to the top. This also removed the projected line the construction line was dimensioned to and the caused the pink dot. The dimension to the construction line was deleted along with the projected line that had the pink dot. A new line was projected and the bottom dims recreated. The 2.25 was dim was changed from a reference dim to a real dim.

It shouldn't have an effect, but ya never know.

Pete