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It isn't just SolidWorks. Most programs can give a mate indication in the tree. I like the white circle (no mates), half white circle (partially mated), black circle (fully mated); sort of like in the Consumer Reports reviews.
SolidWorks uses a plus sign and a minus sign but doesn't have any indicator for partial mates.
Stay away from color coding unless you do your homework. Never ever use red and green to distinguish between anything. Red/green is the most common type of color "blindness".
Inventor can not degrees of freedom are fully constrained have either been released or do a direct confirmation from the browser tree.
However, in Solidworks, it is possible as shown in the following figure, in the tree pane of the browser to check the status of the degrees of freedom and restraint.
(F) sign is a symbol restraint,
(-) Sign, symbol have some degree of freedom
If there is no restraint, display is not a symbol.
Thus, there is a feature that allows even Inventor, to confirm the degree of freedom of each component of the browser tree ..
You are right with scrolling through the long browser list.
But the opposite is also true: If you only have "DOF glyphs" and you have a large assembly with a lot of (smaller) parts, it is difficult to see which part the glyph belongs to.
Perhaps, it shuold be a combination of both of them and perhaps there are still other ideas. For example, a list or something with not-fully constraint parts.
I only know, that a lot of SolidWorks engineers say, thay are missing the browser icon.
But I do not say, the browser icon is the only or the best idea.
Main point is, it would be nice to see, if and which parts have still degrees of freedom left.
Since the idea is accepted, I hope the Autodesk devs come with a nice solution!
It would be nice if there would be a symbol in the model browser next to any parts or assemblies that are not fully constrained, just like there is a pin icon shown when a part is grounded.
It would be nice if there would be a symbol in the model browser next to any parts or assemblies that are not fully constrained, just like there is a pin icon shown when a part is grounded and parts/assemblies that are suppressed have a strikethrough.
