suppressing features with representation

[Anonymous]

Anyway to suppress a feature of a parts within a assembly when changing
representation?

EL

[Anonymous]

El,

There is no direct way to do what you want but there is an indirect way.
Part feature suppression can be driven by parameters. As a result, you will
need a parameter to be the driver and set condition when the feature should
be suppressed. Here is the detailed steps.

Let's assume you have a part with a fillet feature.
1) Create an Excel spreadsheet with a variable called, FilletControl. When
FilletControl equals 1, the fillet feature will stay. When FilletControl
equals 0, the feature will be suppressed.
2) Link the Excel spreadsheet to the part via Parameters dialog. Then
FilletControl becomes a linked parameter.
3) Right-click on the fillet feature->Properties. In the properties dialog,
the top portion allows you to set the conditions in step1. Set up the
conditions, click OK, and save the part.
Now you can change feature suppression status by just changing FilletControl
value in the spreadsheet. The next step is not necessay but it helps you
manage it in an assembly context.
4) Start an assembly and place the part. Link the Excel spreadsheet to
assembly via Parameters dialog or Insert->Object. After that, you will be
able to edit FilletControl value by double-clicking the Excel spreadsheet
icon in 3rd Party folder
An example of what I just described is attached. Let me know if you have any
question.
Thanks!

Johnson Shiue
Test Engineer
Autodesk
(email: johnsonDOTshiueATautodeskDOTcom)
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Anyway to suppress a feature of a parts within a assembly when changing
representation?

EL

[grc]

Hi,

I am using Inventor 2008 and have come from a Solidworks background. I am currently working on a 3000 part assembly with a few other people and the higher level assemblies are maxing out the memory in our computers within about 30 minutes. We then require a restart of Inventor to free up the memory.

I have previously created in solidworks, configurations of simplified and production for my parts, and then have configurations in the assemblies of simplified and production as well. Therefore when you start up the model, you can get a simplified (low memory) model or a production (high memory but accurate) model to work on.

Is there any way other than a 3rd party link to a spreadsheet or an ipart to suppress features on a part within an assembly?

I have read that 3rd party document linking increases your memory usage and this is why I don't want to do that.

Iparts are not very friendly. The assemblies already exist and I don't want to go around re-inserting each part after it has been converted to an ipart. Also the folder structure on the disk of the iparts is a nightmare to manage when you have thousands of parts.

If anyone has any other suggestions on how to do this, it would be much appreciated.

Best regards,
Graeme Cable