Suppressing pattern occurance from variable

[T1936]

Is it possible to suppress an occurrence in a pattern from a variable?

I have a large pattern, and would like to omit some of the occurrences based on a calculation, but from what I can find, it seems like suppressing an occurrence can only be done dynamically.

Tim

 

[swertel]

You are correct. Occurence suppression can only be performed graphically from within the command.

--Scott

http://wertel.eng.pro

 

[T1936]

Thanks Scott. This is what I thought too.

It seems odd that this can not be done. Solid Edge seems like such a complete system, and this must be a feature that others would appreciate. I can't help but wonder if there is another way of accomplishing this.

Seems to me to be a common requirement, such as a pattern of holes that could change relative to a variable driven feature, it could be necessary to suppress some of the holes based on that geometry.

What I am trying to accomplish is similar to this, where I need to suppress occurrences and have other items react to those suppressions.

I see that you can apply Variable based feature suppressions, and I might be able to make this work, but essentially I will be creating a pattern manually that needs to change based on variable input.

Could be a challenge.

Tim