Suppression Feature (EN)

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Command: SUPPRESS

Use the Suppression feature to temporarily suppress a set of entities in your drawing. If the condition is equal to zero, then any corresponding entities are presented, otherwise, they are suppressed.

Suppressed entities are internally placed on a special frozen layer. This allows you to speed up orbit, zoom and pan operations, improves object selection performance and reduces regeneration time for complex drawings. Suppressed entities are also excluded from mass properties calculations (generated drawing views and bill of materials). Use a parametrically-driven expression for the condition parameter of a suppression feature, to create different design variants of your parametric components.

Suppress entities

1. Execute the SUPPRESS command.
2. Select the entities to suppress and set the desired name for the suppression feature.

Unsuppress previously suppressed entities

The Mechanical Browser:

1. Find the suppression feature in the tree (use the "Search" field to search by name).
2. Select the feature.
3. Type "0" in the "Condition" field, under the feature's properties.

The Parameters and Constraints panel:

1. Find the parameter with the same name as the suppression feature (use the "Search" field to search by name)
2. Type "0" in the "Expression" column for the corresponding parameter.

To set a condition for the suppression

You can set an expressional condition for a suppression feature: dependant on the value of the current expression, the entities will be suppressed or unsuppressed automatically.

The Mechanical Browser:

1. Find the corresponding suppression feature in the tree (use "Search" field to search by name)
2. Select it.
3. Enter a desired expression in "Condition" field in its properties.

The Parameters and Constraints panel:

1. Find the parameter with the same name as the suppression feature (use "Search" field to search by name)
2. Enter the desired expression in the "Expression" column for the corresponding parameter.