Can I suppress features from design table?

I have a lot of configurations - and would like to suppress/unsuppress
features from a design table.

In the table I could then easily see what's on and what's not.

Is that possible?

I just did the online tutorial on design tables - it's good, bud does not
mention anything like this.

 

Yes, look up help on suppression in design tables, the cells only require a
"S" or "U". Features and parts can be suppressed in part and assembly files
via design table respectively.

From the help file:
a.. Method 1 (recommended). The column header for controlling feature
suppression uses this syntax:

$STATE@feature

where feature is the name of the feature. For example, the column labeled
$STATE@Hole1 controls the suppression of the first hole.

In the table body cells, type the value for the desired suppression:
Suppressed (or S), Unsuppressed (or U). If a cell is left blank, the default
is Unsuppressed.

 

If you create 2 configs one with all the features unsuppressed and the
second with all the ones you want to manipulate in the design table
suppressed and then create your design table it will automatically populate
the columns and the suppression states. then you can add the needed configs
at will from the design table. This way you don't have typos.

Corey

 

check out a user group presentation on design tables at
www.frontiernet.net/~mlombard follow the rules of thumb link.

 

Another way to prevent typos is to do it the normal way by double clicking
on whatever feature or dimension you want added to the design table. Why
would you want to type the header info into the design table?