trap in using F360

[picadilly]

Hello everybody,

for me it feels, it is hard to get into F360. Here is one trap I fell into again:

I wanted to set a sketch to visible. So I clicked onto the switch (red mark). Now, I had already learned the hard way, that you have to enable at the green and the blue mark, too. But it did work this time. I did not realize, that I had a component in a component. It took me quite a while, to figure out I need to enable at the pink mark, too.

Now, if I click onto something to set it visible, I want it visible. So, if I click onto some nested "make that visible", why dont you automatically set all higher ranking checks to visible as well?

In this case that would mean, if I click to turn the sketch to visible at the red mark, the green, blue and pink mark should automatically be set visible as well.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Maybe this will help:
If I understand you correctly, that would mean that opening a closet door in one room of an apartment in a house would automatically open the main door of the house.
IMO nobody can want that.

günther

[picadilly]

bad comparison.

[picadilly]

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@g-andresen  schrieb:

Hi,

Maybe this will help:
If I understand you correctly, that would mean that opening a closet door in one room of an apartment in a house would automatically open the main door of the house.
IMO nobody can want that.

günther

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Nope, the other way around:

If you want to open a closet door in one room of an apartment in a house would automatically open the main door of the house, you would have to open all the other doors as well.

IMO nobody can want that.

[picadilly]

Correction:

Nope, the other way around:

If you want to open a closet door in one room of an apartment in a house and a main door, you would have to open all the other doors as well.

[jeff_strater]

a better analogy is a set of valves in a series of pipes.  This is, in fact, what we call this model internally:  the valve model.  Say you have a pipe system that has 3 valves.  You are expecting that, if all 3 valves are closed, and you open the furthest one, that water will come out.  Instead, all 3 valves must be open for water to come out.  It is pretty simple to understand, IMO.