Re: Does anyone else do this?

graminator wrote:
> You're in part mode and you've modified your model somehow, which has
> caused a feature to fail, so you use clip/suppress. Then when you look
> at your tree, the arrow indicating where you are in the model has gone
> to the bottom, after all the features you've just suppressed. If you
> need to create a feature in order to get the rest of the suppressed
> features to regen, it will of course be after all the suppressed ones.
> 
> I do this several times a day and after using ProE for 12 years. I
> create a new feature and - woops - it's at the bottom of the tree
> after all those suppressed ones. "Damn I did it again!" Buts what's
> even more annoying is I can't just drag the new feature up the tree
> and place it after the last regenerated one, because ProE won't place
> the new feature *before* a suppressed feature. Why?
> 
> Also I can't just drag the arrow up the tree to after the last
> regenerated feature for the same reason - ProE won't put you *before*
> a suppressed feature. WHY? This seems like such a simple thing so I
> don't understand why it doesn't work this way.

I'm missing something.  Why aren't you able to use the Fix Model method 
to begin building the new feature on-the-spot?

That said, I agree that suppressed features and insert mode are a problem.

Dave