reordering scketched bens doesnt prevent "self intersceting part" warning

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matt
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Recently I made a relative simple sheet metal part which has 4 sketched bends. on first configuration of the part, the second sketched bend angle is small enough to not cause the part to self intersect (while the other bends are still permanently suppressed). on the second configuration the angle is larger and the part is entering the permanently state of self-intersection, however after rebuild and forward rolling of the rest of the sketched bends the part is not actually self-intersecting although a warning on sketched bend number 2 appears (when clicking "what's wrong" solidworks refers to self intersection state of the part).

Because I made first of all, the first configuration in which the order of the bends is irrelevant, and afterwards I made the second configuration where the second bend (in order of creation) has received a new value which caused the feature to get a warning of self-intersection status, I thought the most elegant and quick solution to this is to change the order of this bend so it will not create a self intersecting object. to my surprise it didn't affect solidworks at all and the warning remains intact.

Can anybody shed some light on it please?

Thanks, Gil

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Gil Alsberg

Matt, thanks for your help attempt. I didn't know this setting exists (may be handy some day i guess). now that you mentioned it, i tried it, and it doesnt help at all - the warning remains as before.

BTW, i made some further investigation on the bend order as it reflects on the flattend feature and on the sketch bend features and discoverd that there is no correlation between them what so ever!! so actualy my real question is: what the hell is going on here? am i crazy or is something fudemantaly flawed in solidworks? and does this "bend order" parameters have any meaningfull use at all in solidworks? or is it intended just for decorating the feature manager tree with beautiful and unmeaningful branches and signs!?

P.S. I am using SW2006 SP3.4

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Gil Alsberg

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