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Missign references - floating and unattached red coincident icon
eryk_czajkowski957
Member Posts: 4 ✭
Hi, I made some changes to a sketch which caused multiple issues in my document, in particular "Some external references are missing". I fixed most of them, but two sketches still show erroneous and there are "overdefined" icons shown in them, but those icons seem to be just floating in space, not attached to any part of the actual drawing. They seem not possible to interact with. How to fix this? Similar thing happens in Sketch 3 and 9.
This is the document: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2b0ea1f5e2894a204f09b1b3/w/0cfebd79d975efc61a388b71/e/ccc6c344e4d928ac1ba4aa3d
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When editing a sketch, do your best to move objects around. When a line or what ever is deleted and replaced it will get a new ID which will cascade through newer features in the list. Any sketches, extrudes, sweeps etc. can be affected. Faces used for sketch will have a new ID as well.
Had a look at the whole parts studio. I'm not sure why some folks draw sketches out of place and transforms them after. Makes a lot of extra work. Here is a sample showing how much shorter the feature list can be.
I find for me that making sketches in place is less confusing, especially as the project continues.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/434f9fa2842dfea060196ac6/w/2acc0e7d66e69d2575e53477/e/53b4623666f2948f627cb7e9
PS. I left the fillets out so you'll have something to do. They're B——H
However they can be done on one protrusion and arrayed same as protrusion.
Oh, thanks, I will try to analyze what you did. This document was literally my first part that I did in Onshape, so surely it was far from good. :)
I understand that when you remove a line, references will get messed up, but how to to understand which part causes issues? That icon was not attached to anything, what was the actual step to fix this? I did rotate my part to see, but it did not provide any answers. It was floating from any perspective.
The red icon has lost reference. it stays in view as indicator of problem.
Look at feature tree and see where the warnings and errors start. The previous feature would be a likely suspect. First option is undo. If you notice a problem that may be very time consuming to fix. There is an option to go back via the version and history tree to before this happened. Select make a version. Select the versions one at a time until you arrive before the the error then select main. Right click on good version and select restore to main.
In this sample a line was deleted in sketch 1 that caused a cascade through everything else. Step one is undo. If not noticed for some time then use longhand version of undo via history tree.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/434f9fa2842dfea060196ac6/w/2acc0e7d66e69d2575e53477/e/f348390433068652422dcf9e