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184 CHAPTER 6 GettinG More froM Your SketcheS

Best Practice
Before deleting sketch entities, try to understand what types of relationships the change will affect
downstream. Be sure to consider other sketch relationships within the current part, mates, in-con-
text relations, and even mates in the assembly. in fact, keep all this in mind when you are creating
relationships. try to make relations to the most stable entities available, which usually means hav-
ing sketches and reference geometry entities as high up in the tree as possible.

Using Display/Delete Relations
Display/Delete Relations is the primary tool for dealing with sketch relations. It is particularly
useful for sorting relations by the various categories shown in Figure 6.1. The capability to show
sketch relations in the graphics window is nice; sorting them in a list according to their state
makes this feature even more useful. To show the sketch relation symbols on the screen beside
the sketch entities, use the View ➢ Sketch Relations menu selection.

Figure 6.1
The Display/Delete
relations
PropertyManager