Hello, while manipulating my 3D, I notice that there is a padlock in front of several functions. I don't know how they came about.
What should I do to remove them, because I can't save the file anymore?
Thank you for answering me quickly
Rebelo Daniel
You are probably in read-only.
Right-click on your file and see if "Read-only" is checked. If yes, uncheck the box and reopen your template.
Otherwise, try a take-away composition.
Edit: INTOX alert!! ^^
As much as for me, you simply have to go up the little yellow bar to the top. =)
Edit: This bar avoids too heavy rebuilds.
Hello
These "padlocks" come from the "block bar" (the yellow bar that appears in the tree). Simply pull up the lock bar and the padlocks will disappear.
This block bar is used to block certain functions so that solidworks does not constantly rebuild them and slow down the software on a complicated part.
Hoping that my answer will be useful to you.
In fact you have certainly done right click "blocking" you have to go up your yellow line in and the trick and done
With a right click on the progress bar (line after the functions with padlock), I unlocked. The padlocks have disappeared. On the other hand, how did they appear?? Mystery
Thank you for your quick answers.
I work on quite large files (90 MB), because with 5 configs.
And so the reconstruction is quite long (several minutes x N times). So how do you put padlocks on functions?
Maybe I'll save time, already the reconstruction?
Thank you
In the same way, either drag it down or right-click on the bar => block everything.
For more information on the block bar:
http://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksfrance/2013/10/macro-pour-activer-la-barre-de-blocage-dans-le-feature-manager.html
On the other hand, if you want to block only certain functions, they must all be at the top.
Because the blocking bar acts on the functions in the order of the creation tree.
Thank you for your information.
I actually never got this yellow line, because the "Enable Block Bar" option was unchecked. Hence my astonishment at this appearance, by manipulating the 3D, without going to Option.
Activating the block bar seems interesting to me, given the time it takes to open a file, and during functioning.
I have sometimes modified a function, which has "skipped" functions upstream. That functions go red after the modified function, I understand. That functions upstream of the modification go red, I don't understand anymore.
So, by blocking for example the first 20 functions, if I modify the 100th function, is there a risk that one of the functions "jumps" or does it really block for sure?
The block bar simply blocks the rebuild, these functions will be rebuilt when they are unlocked. So blocking them does not prevent errors that can occur after modifications, these errors could occur during the reconstruction (and therefore unblocking) of these functions.
However, there is little risk that changes to functions will cause blocked functions to "skip", since the blocking bar only works in the order of the tree. (A function change will have no influence on features higher in the tree.)
Hello
Agree with @lionel, on a "simple" part, actions on posterior functions have no influence on anterior functions.
EXCEPT... If you are creating value connections (right-click on a dimension/Link Value), equations, shared sketches, or you have drawn your part in a context (sketch relationships outside the part).
I've already seen on a part drawn in a context (cable in a machine). The fact that the assembly was evolving put me at fault (yellow trangle) my basic function which was a sweep, despite the positioning of the blocking bar at the very bottom of the tree.