"graminator" <grahamew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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.
No, I've never done that, don't think I even knew clip/suppress does as
you
say. I just go into the Dreaded Resolve Mode and fix the feature failure,
including, as Geesaman suggested, using Fix Model (for features that need
fixing before the failed one because they caused the current feature to
fail). I guess I'm also left with questions, such as why you'd ignore the
built in "insert" (Resolve Mode) and try to do that by the back door
(suppressing a bunch of features, then trying to ignore and make a big end
run around them). All I can think is that this is something you learned a
long time ago and have been beating your head against the wall ever since.
You might reconsider doing it this way, bite the bullet and learn to use
Resolve Mode (other than clip/suppress).
The only reason I can think of for using clip/suppress is to quickly get
out
of the DRM so you can reload the part and start to figure out what went
wrong. If you're using Intralink, you can reload the part easily by doing
'File>Update>Current' and it restores the file to the last saved version.
If
you wanted to learn resolve feature failures, I'm sure I saw webcast
specifically on that topic at PTC.com
David Janes
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