Inventor 07-09 Suppressing and Unsuppressing the Features

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suppressing and unsuppressing the features. Let's say I have a bunch of features here like these uh counter sunk holes and uh I don't need all of them. I need one of them temporarily turned off. I don't want to delete it. Just want to temporarily turn it off.

Uh I can come over to my circular pattern over here and uh you can see that I have all these different occurrences. So um I can just pick any one of these holes, you know, and I can highlight it and say which one. So I'll take this one right here and then I'll right click on it. And in here I have suppress. And now I can suppress it.

And that hole is temporarily gone. I didn't delete it. So maybe later on in the design I might want to bring it back. So if I want to bring it back at a later date, I unsuppress it. So I come over here and I go to my um my circular pattern and I go to my occurrence of that feature.

I rightclick and I uncheck the suppress. When I uncheck it, the feature will come back. So, I have to find it in my browser bar, highlight the feature, and say suppress, and it temporarily suppresses it. Um, you know, this is kind of good, especially in the patterns when you want to take one out of the patterns out. Um, so you just make the pattern the way it normally would be and then you remove the one item in the pattern that you don't