Relationship Conflict Analysis Reference

Use the Relationship Conflict Analysis dialog box to resolve conflicts while placing, editing, or unsuppressing a relationship.

The Relationship Conflict Analysis dialog box lists only components and relationships related to the current conflict. If there are other conflicts, you are prompted to continue after you resolve one conflict.

Access

  • Click Diagnose the relationship in the Place/Edit Relationship error dialog box.
  • Click Diagnose the relationship in the Suppress relationship error dialog box.
  • Click Diagnose Relationship in the Select a treatment pane of the Design Doctor dialog.
  • Click Diagnose on the browser context menu.
Status

Provides the following commands, enabling you to change the status on multiple selected objects at the same time.

  • Sets the selected relationships to keep. Relationships set to keep are maintained when you click OK.
  • Sets the selected relationships to break. Relationships set to break are deleted or suppressed when you click OK.
  • Changes the selected component to grounded or ungrounded depending on its status.
Solve result
Displays the status of the relationship conflict. The icon is only updated when the Check button is clicked.
  • Displays when there are no conflicting relationships.
  • Displays when there are still conflicting relationships.
  • Check Solves the listed assembly relationships and updates the Solve result.
Symbols
Controls the status of components and relationships. Do one of the following:
  • Click the icon next to an individual object and cycle through statuses.
  • Select multiple objects, and then, at the top of the dialog box, click a status symbol. The symbols correspond to the status commands previously described, with this addition:
  • Indicates that the folder contains mixed keep and break relationships.
Isolate connected components
Right-click the top component node to access the Isolate connected components command. Turns off the visibility of all components not referenced by the relationship being analyzed. Select Isolate connected components again to clear the selection and restore the visibility of all components.
Delete broken relationships
Deletes relationships that are set to (Break).
Suppress broken relationships
Suppresses relationships that are set to (Break).
Display only conflicting relationships
When selected, only components with conflicting relationships display in the list.