Turn off automatic unsuppress of features?
Turn off automatic unsuppress of features?
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Hello,
In a part I have a suppressed blend feature at the end of the feature tree. When I unsuppress this blend, some of its parents, which are suppressed, automatically get unsuppressed as well. How can I prevent this from happening? Is there for example a way to permanently suppress a feature so that it never gets unsuppressed unless I specifically make it unsuppressed? Or perhaps a way to unsuppress a feature without automatically unsuppressing its parents as well?
In a part I have a suppressed blend feature at the end of the feature tree. When I unsuppress this blend, some of its parents, which are suppressed, automatically get unsuppressed as well. How can I prevent this from happening? Is there for example a way to permanently suppress a feature so that it never gets unsuppressed unless I specifically make it unsuppressed? Or perhaps a way to unsuppress a feature without automatically unsuppressing its parents as well?
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RE: Turn off automatic unsuppress of features?
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RE: Turn off automatic unsuppress of features?
For example, I have a blend feature that blends the edges of two extruded features. I later decide to suppress one of the extrudes because it's not needed, but I might need it later. That's why I suppress it, rather than deleting it. The child blend feature will now get a warning indicator, but it doesn't fail so everything is fine. Now I suppress the blend feature. Some time later I unsuppress the blend feature, but unknown to me, the extrude feature that I had suppressed earlier now is unsuppressed! For a more complex part, this is a major issue because there might be many features that get automatically unsuppressed in this manner and I wouldn't know which features got unsuppressed which then have to be suppressed again, or worse, that I continue to work on the part without knowing the features got unsuppressed.
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RE: Turn off automatic unsuppress of features?
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RE: Turn off automatic unsuppress of features?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Turn off automatic unsuppress of features?
When I have a feature that may or may not be used (such as your extrude) I'll rename it in the part navigator. My settings are set to "system + user", so the new name in the part navigator might look like: Extrude (22) "version1". On larger parts I'll create a filter: right click in the part navigator and choose "filter settings". Use the filter to remove all features and add only those with the name I specified (i.e. "version1"). Save the filter. After editing features, I can toggle the filter and quickly see and control the suppression status.
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RE: Turn off automatic unsuppress of features?
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