Learn/Drafting/Solid Modeling Tools
Editing Feature References
Updated v2.3.7At a glance
- Every reference a feature is built on shows as its own item — green when it resolves, red when it's lost
- Delete just the broken reference and re-pick it, keeping the good ones untouched
- Hover a reference to light up the matching edge, face, region, or body in the 3D view
- Re-pick a single reference in place — while first creating a feature or editing it later
- A feature that quietly loses an edge or face now flags it instead of dropping it silently
- Broken face-attached construction planes are flagged in the part tree
Every history feature is built on something you picked — the edges a Fillet rounds, the faces a Sheet Metal wall folds from, the regions an Extrude pushes, the bodies a Boolean combines. When you open a feature to edit it, those picks now show up as a list you can manage one at a time, instead of an all-or-nothing "start over."
The reference list
Open a Fillet, Chamfer, Sheet Metal Base, Flange, Extrude, Sweep, Revolve, Move, or a Boolean (Cut / Combine) and each reference it holds appears as its own row with a colored status dot:
- Green — the reference still resolves. Nothing to do.
- Red — the reference is lost (its edge, face, region, or body is gone). This is what you fix.
- Amber — the reference resolved, but only by position rather than by name, so it may need attention if you keep changing the part upstream.
The whole feature no longer has to be scrapped because one pick went bad — the list tells you exactly which one.
Fix one, keep the rest
Each row has a remove (×) and a re-pick (↻). Remove the red one and the rest of your selection stays exactly as it was; hit re-pick and click a replacement in the 3D view to swap that single reference in place. The same list is live while you're first creating a feature too, so adding, removing, and swapping picks works the same whether you're building or editing.
Hover to locate
Point at any row and the matching edge, face, region, or body lights up in the 3D view — so on a busy part you always know which reference you're about to remove or swap before you touch it.
Nothing dropped in silence
If a feature loses one of several references — a Fillet that lost a single edge after an upstream change, for instance — it now flags that on the feature and in the "needs attention" banner, rather than quietly rounding fewer edges than you picked. Fix the flagged reference and the warning clears itself on the next rebuild.
Broken construction planes
A face-attached plane whose face has been removed is now marked in the part tree, so a plane sitting at a stale position no longer goes unnoticed.
Tips
- The colors reflect the last rebuild — re-pick a red reference and it turns green as soon as the feature recomputes.
- Sheet Metal walls and swept/revolved profiles are re-found from the sketch each rebuild, so reshaping the source sketch updates them automatically; a region that no longer encloses anything is the one that shows red.