Thursday, September 9th, 2010

What are the glyphs in the feature PathFinder

Question

I can see some different glyphs appearing in the feature pathfinder what do they mean? I have seen a blue circular arrow, a grey arrow and a red circle with line through.

Answer

The blue circular arrow indicates features that have been temporarily rewound by using the Goto option. This is useful for inserting new features before ones that already exist. The grey arrow indicates that some original design intent is no longer valid. Probably a failed profile constraint or dimension due to a parent feature being deleted or extensively modified. To solve this simply edit the profile and re-construct the desired constraint. The red circle is a suppressed feature. These can be un-suppressed by right clicking and choosing the appropriate option.