Setting up an imported bracket for draft analysis

Was the imported STEP checked for gaps, tolerance and topology before anything was built on it?

Roughly forty seconds between 21s and 60s is spent orbiting, zooming and picking around the imported bracket. That is a real inspection and it is more than many sessions manage. It is still only looking. No Join-Healing, no gap check, no tolerance query appears in the session, so the geometry everything downstream sits on was never actually established as sound.

Is construction geometry defined parametrically, or picked off the screen?

Point Definition is opened at 61s and switched to the Coordinates option rather than picked — the habit that separates geometry which survives an upstream edit from geometry that has to be rebuilt by hand. It does not go cleanly: an Error Detected dialog lands at 83s and the point is redefined. The recovery is competent and the end state is right. The line that follows is built Point-Point off that definition, which is the correct dependency.

Is a working axis system defined and made current before measurements and analyses depend on it?

An axis system is built between 97s and 126s and explicitly set Current at 125s. That last click is the one that matters and the one most often skipped: an axis system that is never made current is decoration, and every draft direction and measurement afterwards silently resolves against the import's own arbitrary origin instead.

Was the draft analysis configured correctly — pull direction defined, display mode chosen, live update enabled?

Feature Draft Analysis is opened at 179s and then actually configured. The compass direction is set at 193s, again at 195s and 201s as the view is re-oriented, and on-the-fly checking is switched on at 233s. It is then revisited at 375s after other work, and the direction confirmed once more. Defining the pull direction is what separates a real draft check from a coloured picture, and doing it again after the view moves is what stops a stale direction being read as a result.

Is the reasoning behind the decisions recoverable — narration, step marks, notes, artefact snapshots?

The microphone worked. Four hundred seconds of narration at a healthy level, which is a real improvement on the silent sessions before it and the single biggest thing separating this capture from an unreadable one. What is still missing is structure: no step marks were set, so the narration has to be listened to rather than indexed, and git was not installed on the machine so no snapshot of the part exists at any point. Properties is opened at 318s to set colour, linetype and weight — housekeeping that suggests care, and that nothing in the capture can verify.