Suppress Feature if it has no effect

[Josh_Hudson97]

Hi, I am after some code that will suppress a feature if it takes no effect after the rest of my logic has run....

I have a square box section post and users can choose to add drilling on each of the 4 face independently. If a user picks to have 3 drillings in a face then picks the opposite face to also have 3 drillings in I want to suppress any features that have no effect. i.e if Drilling positions are the same in opposite face suppress one of them.

I could do this long hand with logic, but hoping someone knows a way I could solve this with a few lines easily 😆

[FINET_Laurent · Accepted solution]

Hi @Josh_Hudson97,

Here a part with an extrusion (Extrusion1) (removing material) which has no effect : 

You could use the folowing code to suppress it : 

Dim doc As Inventor.PartDocument = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
Dim pcd As Inventor.PartComponentDefinition = doc.ComponentDefinition

For Each f As Inventor.PartFeature In pcd.Features
	If f.HealthStatus = HealthStatusEnum.kDriverLostHealth Then f.Suppressed = True
		
Next

Does this suits your needs ?

Kind regards,

FINET L.

[Josh_Hudson97]

Hi @FINET_Laurent,

Perfect thank you!

Funny enough I'd just found the solution on another post and was about to link it in here.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/ilogic-to-detect-features-with-errors/td-p/6297950