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Configurations - Not Staying Suppressed

Configurations - Not Staying Suppressed

Configurations - Not Staying Suppressed

(OP)
Hello,

I am having an issue with configurations for Solidworks. At this moment in time, I am having issues with Weld Beads, but I believe this issue occurs for many other things such as features, dimensions, etc. but I do not notice them as much as problems with Suppressing/Unsuppressing Weld Beads because it takes me 20 minutes to Suppress Weld Beads.

I have 4 configurations: A,B,C,D
Current configuration: "B"
When I right-click => "configure feature" I get the modify configurations dialog.
I set certain features (namely a couple weld beads) to be suppressed in all configurations except the current configuration "B" and click "Okay"
When I change configurations to configuration "C" then all the Suppresses that I checked for "C" disappear, but all the other suppresses are still displayed correctly.
I can set all the suppresses/unsuppresses again from configure feature and when I switch configurations to another configuration that I have yet to visit with the new set of features such as config "A", then the Suppresses become Unsuppressed for configuration "A", but not for "B" or "C".

My configurations properties also has the
"Suppress new features and mates" & "Suppress new components" options checked

Picture Attached: (dont count default as one of the A-D)
1: Configuration "B" - set suppresses/unsuppresses for config "A","B","C","D"
2: Switch configuration to "A" - features are unsuppressed

RE: Configurations - Not Staying Suppressed

Check the associations of the features. If you suppress one feature, the associated one may suppress.

Chris
SolidWorks 11
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RE: Configurations - Not Staying Suppressed

(OP)
How do I check associations of weld bead features?

I am not having issues with trying to suppress a feature and having other ones become suppressed along with it.
The problem is that I am designating features to be suppressed because the associated parts in the specific configurations are suppressed, and when I switch to those specific configurations, the parts are correctly suppressed (from suppressing them at a previous time) but the features (weld beads in this case) BECOME unsuppressed.
This problem only occurs the First Time I switch to an affected configuration after designating the configuration-specific attributes (such as suppress/unsuppress).
Switching configurations back to one that I had already RE-configured does not give me any inconsistencies/issues.

Hope that makes better sense.

RE: Configurations - Not Staying Suppressed

I find that using a design table to control configurations makes them much more stable.

RE: Configurations - Not Staying Suppressed

(OP)
I remember someone telling me that I can't use design tables and modify configurations at the same time or something along those lines???

But the main reason why I cannot use design tables is because I am doing CAD Automation and Automation + design tables don't get along.

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