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Breaking a Parent/ Child Relationship

Breaking a Parent/ Child Relationship

Breaking a Parent/ Child Relationship

(OP)
Good after noon folks I have an interesting mind teaser. I have to modify a model and in the process I have to delete a couple of features, like a chamfer and a radius, but there are some relationships that appear when you try and delete them. My question is, is there a way to break those relationship so I can delete the chamfer and the radius without rebuild half of the rest of that model? Thank you in advance for any help rendered.

RE: Breaking a Parent/ Child Relationship

Go to the child sketch and delete the relation prior to deleting the parent feature. A good test to verify the link is broken is to first suppress the parent feature. This will also suppress all the children. After you have severed the relations... suppressing the parent will no longer affect the other features. Now it is safe to delete the original parent.

-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Pretty good with SolidWorks

RE: Breaking a Parent/ Child Relationship

(OP)
Thanks but it did not work well at all. once I deleted the chamfer, the radius disappeared as well and with it the thread and knurl profiles. I found the dimensions that caused the failure and re-dimensioned both and now everything is just wonderful.

RE: Breaking a Parent/ Child Relationship

I did not suggest to just delete the chamfer (parent feature). I suggested to go into ALL of the children features and deleting the relation... prior to deleting the chamfer (parent feature). Glad everything is wonderful however.

-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Pretty good with SolidWorks

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