Design Rules
Configure design checks, review issues and record intentional exceptions.
Design Rules checks supported relationships against the rules enabled for the project. Its Packs, Rules, Issues and Exceptions tabs separate configuration from results. Rules are design checks, not a legal-compliance certificate or a guarantee that every object and condition has been evaluated. The panel requires the design-rules feature.
Enable relevant rules
Open Design Rules from the editor toolbar. In Packs, enable the relevant built-in packs. In Rules, inspect each rule’s metric, threshold and severity. Pausing a pack preserves rule settings rather than deleting the rules.
Run the check
Choose Run full check. Wait for completion and read any error, stale-result or unavailable-check message. Cancel stops the active run; a canceled or failed run is not a completed clean check.
Review issues
In Issues, review Required, Warning and Advisory entries. Read the measured value and the required minimum, maximum or target where shown. Select both selects the involved objects so you can find and correct the relationship.
Accept a deliberate exception
Choose Accept only when the reported issue is an intentional exception. The accepted state is recorded and appears in Exceptions; it does not change the geometry or make the design compliant. Undo on an accepted issue reverses that acceptance.
Recheck after changes
Use Remove exception in Exceptions when an acceptance should no longer apply, then run a current check. If Results may be outdated — re-run check. appears, the old issue list is not evidence about the latest design. A live drag hint covers a narrower set than full validation.