tips backlog - stable relations

My best practice: whenever possible, avoid making relationships to edges and
vertices and instead try to make relations to the SKETCHES that were used to
create those edges and vertices. The extra effort only takes a couple of
seconds (and maybe a little trickery using pierce and/or coincidence to get
the relation to act according to your design needs), and it will save hours
of time if there is a model change. I've recently saved myself man-days
worth of time with this practice.

The reason is that model sketches are safe, while all of the edges and
vertices in a model are constantly vulnerable to being absorbed by other
features, can be wiped out by fillets and chamfers , their I.D.'s can be
annihilated by split lines, and their location can change due to draft,
etc. The only way that relations to edges and vertices is a wash when
compared to selecting the foundation sketches is if you never, ever, ever
expect to rollback and add features to a model.

 

All of the above, with filters as the least used option.