Using the Display Only Parents Option to Retrieve a Creation Context

You can use Display Only Parents while editing a functional feature. It displays the minimum creation context of the feature being edited by deactivating the feature and all the features which are not parents from it. It works as a filter to facilitate the selection of faces and edges.

This capability is mainly useful for local modifiers such as drafts, chamfers, and fillets features that use face or edge selections.

This task shows you how to use Display Only Parents after changing an edge into a spline.

Before you begin: Open a 3D shape representation with edge fillets, draft, and a spline for an edge.
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Creating Part Design Dress-Up Features
  1. Double-click the spline in the tree to enter the Sketcher.
  2. Delete the spline.


  3. Click Profile and draw a line to join end points of the spline. This is to change the deleted spline into a simple line.


  4. From the standard area of the action bar, click .
    The Update Diagnosis dialog box is displayed, indicating that three features cannot build themselves.
  5. Click Edit to edit edge fillets.
    A warning message is displayed, indicating that two edges cannot be used.
  6. Click OK to close the message.
    The Edge Fillet Definition dialog box is displayed.
  7. Click Display Only Parents.

    The edge fillets and draft are deactivated. You can now select the missing edge.



  8. Select the required edges.
  9. Click OK in the Edge Fillet Definition dialog box.
    The first edge fillet line has disappeared from the Update Diagnosis dialog box.
  10. Select a second edge fillet and click Edit.
    A warning message is displayed, indicating that an edge cannot be used, the Edge Fillet Definition dialog box is displayed.
  11. Click OK.
  12. Edit draft.
    After a warning message, the Draft Reflect Line Definition dialog box is displayed.
  13. Click Display Only Parents.
  14. Select second edge fillet.


  15. Click OK.
    The 3D shape is rebuilt.