supress by layer

Anyone know if it is possible to suppress by layer?

In pre-wildfire versions of proe (might even be in versions as old as
19) you used to be able to "suppress by layer". In other words you
could select a layer while in suppress mode and have all the features/
components in a layer be suppressed.

PS: What happened to this forum? very few posts are related to using
Pro/e. Is there a better website for that?

 

I haven't used this at all, both previous and current with WF5, no solution I know.

It seems that some user Joe788 refuses to remove this list off his "CC" and is bringing this list down with garbage.

Paul

 

I found it. More steps then is used to be and it has a 500 item
selection limit. Layers can have more than 500 items, but the function
I found only selects 500 items on a layer at a time.

Here goes:
Show the layer tree in the left panel
Right click on a layer (or select the layer and then right click) for
a fly out menu
Select "Select Items" on the fly out menu all the items on the layer
(up to 500) will be selected
Go to the "Edit" menu in the top menu and select Suppress

Alternatively, you can expand the layer name in the layer tree and
Select the first item in the layer item list, scroll done to the
bottom of that list and, while holding down the control button, select
the last item in that layers list. Then go to the edit menu and select
"suppress. There is still a 500 item limit, but after you've
suppressed the first 500 items you can repeat the process to select
and suppress more items.

A bit more cumbersome than it used to be, but it works.

So why do I have more than 500 items to suppress?
Our electrical group uses Altium to create curcuit boards. They
output the 3D step files. When I bring those files into proe as an
assembly, they often have several hundred to several thousand parts.
Most of them are tiny little blocks that I don't need. The bigger
parts and jacks I need to see to fit housings around. I put the big
parts on a layer and do the same with the little parts. Then, to keep
the session from loading thousands of part names into session I
suppress the little parts. It's very tedious to find a part in
session when you have to scroll through a list of over a thousand
parts.

Often times I will suppress all but the little parts so that only the
little parts are shoiwing. Then I output that as a step or .sat file
and bring that back into one part called "lil parts". I delete the
little parts from the assy and bring in the one part file that has all
the blocks from the little parts. Then I can see them all but they
are just one part name in session.

 

Some of the little parts stand off the PCB as much as .1 inches. That
causes interference problems with our housings in a few areas. We
also have a Surface mount light sensor and surface mount microphone
that require an open "tube" or "boss" to come down to nearly meet with
them. So the sensors and the components around them need to be on the
PCB so that the tube extending to them doesn't touch what it's not
supposed to.