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Supressing an annotation with an expression.

Supressing an annotation with an expression.

Supressing an annotation with an expression.

(OP)
Hello,
I am making a lot of parts using the family parts function in NX4.  I want to have the drawing in the part update along with each family member.  For one family set, I have a bolt circle, which is controled with a suppression expression, "1" turns bolt circle on, "0" supresses it.  I have an annotation in the drawing which calls out the bolt circle, hole diameter, etc.,  and I can not find a way to supress the annotation automaticly when the bolt holes are supressed.  So when I supress the bolt circle, the callout still appears, but with no associativity.  
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks,
Rick
Tool Engineer

RE: Supressing an annotation with an expression.

   We call this type of drafting as "Template Drafting",  that we did it in 2-3 projects.

   In drafting u can select Edit->Suppress drafting object.
In the dialog select Expression button, and select whatever expression u want, and then select the annotation, dimension, or centerlines etc that should be suppressed (or unsuppressed) by this expression.
  For example here u can associate bolt circle expression to this annotation.

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