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I cannot suppress a pattern element components

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:58:37 GMT

Any idea why I cannot suppress the parts of a pattern elements? Any idea why you cannot just suppress the entire pattern? I have spent 10 minutes looking at this menu and cannot find suppress. Am I losing it?

Betreff: I cannot suppress a pattern element components

WHolzwarth — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:19:31 GMT

What do you see, when right-clicking at Element:4 ?

Betreff: I cannot suppress a pattern element components

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:24:22 GMT

It has something to do with imported parts as references. It is hard to tell, but the icon for two of the three parts is showing that they are imported.

When I replaced the imported parts with converted instead of referenced files, the behavior works as advertised. I could suppress the longshaft.ipt, but not the other two.

Interesting but frustrating. - Idea time!

Thanks.

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johnsonshiue — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:18:06 GMT

Hi! Indeed, Suppress is not available for AnyCAD component in a pattern. Also it cannot be suppressed in LOD. This is a limitation right now. I have seen the idea you posted it on Inventor Ideas. I hope there will be a lot of vote soon.

Many thanks!

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Curtis_W — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:25:29 GMT

@johnsonshiue wrote:

Indeed, Suppress is not available for AnyCAD component in a pattern. Also it cannot be suppressed in LOD. This is a limitation right now.

Hi johnsonshiue,

Is this documented anywhere? Such as in the help files? I looked previously and could not find it, but maybe I just overlooked it?

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

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Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:36:07 GMT

Thanks for the update. It was actually a Solidworks part that would not suppress.

Thanks.