A General, Why Does SW do this question

[vc66]

Hi All-

Running SW08 SP3.0

I'm basically modeling a rectangular box (simply), and controlling the configurations based on the height, and a few other parameters. On the smaller heights, due to some of the features, I need to incorporate some cuts for clean-up purposes, so I suppress them in the configurations that I don't need them in. The problem is when I go to the taller heights (where I have those cuts suppressed), SW tells me that the those features are wrong because the points that I use as reference for the smaller heights are no longer there. WHY DO I CARE? Those references should only be there when the feature isn't suppressed. Why do I care if the references aren't there when the feature is suppressed.

I guess this is really more of a rant than anything else, but if I'm missing something, and there's a way to stop this from happening, I'd appreciate a solution!

V

 

[handleman]

You may need to suppress the sketch as well in those configs. You can suppress a feature without suppressing its sketch, and I believe this is the default behavior. Suppress the sketch and the warnings should go away.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Does this only happen in SP3 EV?

 

[vc66]

handleman-

If you're right (which you probably are), I owe you a beer.

Like the pirate with the steering wheel sticking out of his pants, this has been driving me nuts!

V

 

[SnowCrash]

If you examine the feature tree closely you will see the error indication is for the sketch rather than the feature. This is how I know. That, and having had this problem a lot . . .

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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2009 SP 2.1
Nvidia Quadro FX 1000
AMD Athalon 1.8 GHz 2 Gig RAM