How to Find Hidden Parent/Child Relationships in SOLIDWORKS — When Dynamic Reference Visualization Shows More Than You Expect
Right-click a feature, choose Parent/Child, and you see 12 children listed. Open Display/Delete Relations on the sketch — nothing. Enter Edit Feature — no explicit references to those children. Where are these relationships hiding? This is one of the most common sources of rebuild failures and change-propagation surprises in SOLIDWORKS. Features that appear independent are connected through mechanisms that don’t show up in the usual places. This post maps every source of non-obvious parent/child dependencies and shows how to find and break them. ...