Upgrading Part and Sketch Features

You can upgrade part and sketch features using the Upgrade command.

This page discusses:

The Upgrade Command

When improvements or corrections are linked to the update algorithm of a feature, these are always versioned in order to ensure update upward compatibility. This means that a feature will always be updated using update code linked to the release version used for its creation.

The Upgrade command is available through the context menu of sketch features, and allows you to select it and thus access all latest evolutions and improvements available on your current release.

Upgrading Features

To upgrade a sketch feature right-click it and select Upgrade.

Upgrade updates all version information which is stored in the sketch feature and its content before updating it to take into account all existing improvements and corrections. By the way, this automatic local update on the sketch feature is performed using a dedicated optimized algorithm trying to avoid as much as possible sub-element naming changes in order to minimize the number of reroute operations needed on impacted features when you will update your part data.

Nevertheless, upgrade operations can lead to slight changes to geometry. In this case, there is no warning message. Upgrade operations can also require some reroute operations to take full benefit of upgrade operations and retrieve up-to-date part data.

Recommendations

There are a few things that are recommended when upgrading part and sketch features.

We recommend you :

  • perform upgrade operations on non-deactivated features.
  • perform upgrade operations on up-to-date features (specially if they contain use-edge features).
  • use Tools > Sketch Analysis before checking its use-edges status and if sketched geometry is solved (solving diagnosis).

Due to data modification performed in V5R8, all existing use-edges created before this release cannot be upgraded. We advise you to remove them and create them again. If that is not possible, follow this scenario in order to ensure that the sketch data will be fully upgraded. Otherwise a partial upgrade is just possible and you will not access and take benefit of all available improvements and corrections:

  • Edit your sketch feature.
  • Select Tools > Sketch Analysis and click the Use-edges tab. You can check whether the sketch contains such type of use-edge data. In this case the 'Upgrade not possible' message appears in the Comment field.
  • Deactivate all old use-edges to fully upgrade your sketch.
  • Exit Sketcher.
  • Upgrade your sketch feature.
  • Edit again you sketch feature.
  • Using Tools > Sketch Analysis activates one by one each deactivated use-edges to see if these use-edges can be supported with the newly released version. If not, use-edges have to be deleted and created again.