×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Error of "edges have been consumed by another feature, or suppressed"

Error of "edges have been consumed by another feature, or suppressed"

Error of "edges have been consumed by another feature, or suppressed"

(OP)
I used two extrudes and one edge blend features in a model:


I am now trying to use pattern feature to copy the three of these features to somewhere else in the same model. If I use the pattern feature command and select the three of these features, it works without any error. However, if I first select the two extrudes and finish the pattern command and then edit it and add the blend feature, it shows the error:

One or more blend edges have been consumed by another feature, or suppressed.

and the result looks like these:



Even if I select the three of these features and complete the pattern successfully and then just suppress and unsuppress the pattern feature, I will see the error again.

Do you have any opinion on what is the problem and how to fix?

RE: Error of "edges have been consumed by another feature, or suppressed"

That's NOT an 'error' but simply a message informing you that edges used by some previous feature has been 'consumed' by more recent feature.

John R. Baker, P.E.
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

RE: Error of "edges have been consumed by another feature, or suppressed"

(OP)
Thanks for your comment. But if you see my snapshot, you will find that some of the patterened blends did not work and there are some edges withour blend. So, I think it is an error based on its sign in the feature tree and also the output of the pattern.

RE: Error of "edges have been consumed by another feature, or suppressed"

If it were an actual update 'error' the affected features would have been suppressed and flagged with a red [X]. However, the yellow /!\ symbol indicates that something of 'interest' occurred and that's what's being reported to the user. Now it is possible that the final result is not what you expected but NX was able to complete the operation WITHOUT it being seen as an 'error'. What you need to do now is look at the features that you've used and the order in which they're being applied to see what it is that's giving what you feel is not the correct result. You may need to change your approach to the construction since NX has determined that while the result amy be unexpected, it's technically NOT invalid.

John R. Baker, P.E.
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

RE: Error of "edges have been consumed by another feature, or suppressed"

(OP)
Thanks for your post. Basically this is what I have done and am trying to do:

1) Cut-Extrude a rectangle from a block
2) Filleted the outside edges of the cutting

3) Now I am trying to pattern them both to some other part of the block

I have done this other ways without any error or warning. However, I'd like to know what is wrong with the above approach for sake of learning.

Thanks

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources