Supress Assembly Features per Assembly Arramgements 1

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I have an assembly that has 20 different arrangements. I want to do some sketching in the default arrangement of the main assembly. But I do not want this sketch to show up in the other arrangements. One solution is to use layers. But My question is it possible to suppress a sketch that was created in the assembly per assembly arrangement instead of using layers.

Thanks

 

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Sorry forgot to mention using NX 7.5

 

[JohnRBaker]

You can suppress Components on a per-Arrangement basis but not features, such as sketches, created at the Assembly level.

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Ok That is what I was thinking but I wanted to double check. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Now you can suppress features using Expressions so it's possible to set up a series of Expressions which you would have to remmeber to edit when you changed Arrangements so as to control which Sketch was suppressed when a certain Arrangement was being used.

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Would this expression filter down to the drawing? For example I have the default arranement on the drawing showing these curves. Then the rest of the drawing views that use the other arrangements I do not want to show these features and or sketches? Also could you give me an example of what the expression would look like in the Expression editor? thanks

 

[JohnRBaker]

Yes, by linking them using interpart expressions. When you 'Suppress a Feature by an Expression' teh system automatically creates the expression for you. A value of '1' will allow the feature to exist. A value of '0' will suppress it.

However, if we're talking about controlling the visibility of the sketch on a per view as well as a per arrangement scheme, than you may have to revert to using a layer-based approach since that can be applied on a per-drawing view basis whereas the Suppression of a feature will be an all or nothing proposition.

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