Suppress Feature

[Will2]

I remember when I was using Inventor years ago it has a feature called "suppress feature" that you could apply to a feature to in essence delete it while not really doing so, so you can unsuppress it and it will be back again. I recently thought about it while designing something that uses a couple multi-transform features that take long compute times. It would be handy to suppress the multi-transforms until I needed them while still being able to compute most of the model (instead of using the "skip recomputes" feature to forgo all recomputes until I tell it to)

Seems like something that would be easyish to implement, give the feature a flag that makes the solver skip over it.

Is there a way that anyone has made something function like this in FreeCAD?

Currently what I did was delete the offending feature after writing down all the properties needed to add it back again when the design is complete.

Much appreciation to everyone who works to make this an awesome program!

Will

[herbk]

Hi Willi,
dosn't hide a part by using the space bar doing what you want?

[Jee-Bee]

That feature also exist in creo s i understand what you mean.
The feature don't exist in FC at the moment...
I guess it is more difficult than you think! If you are able to create that feature it would be great. If you want to try that i would start creating it for the part design workbench. Most other wolkbenches it is more complicated to create it.
I think the main reason we don't have that feature is 'topological naming'. Than have you at least something to read

[chrisb]

I guess it is more difficult than you think!

It cannot be that difficult, but you have, of course, to bear the consequences. It is similar to rearranging the sequence of features. If it is possible to move a feature from its place e.g. to the end it should well be possible to ignore it.
The consequences are all the well known toponaming issues, but with a well planned model it should work. And I think it can be indeed sensible for time consuming features like helix sweeps or patterns.

[NormandC]

I agree. I think all parametric CAD programs have this option, except for FreeCAD.

So! Who's writing the feature request?

[wmayer]

I did it. issue #0000402 (look at the ticket number)

[chrisb]

(look at the ticket number)

So this obviously had to wait for the so called PDN to come true.

In Path workbench single operations can can be switched on and off with the boolean property "Active". It seems sensible to me to use the same property name in PartDesign.

[Jee-Bee]

In Path workbench single operations can can be switched on and off with the boolean property "Active". It seems sensible to me to use the same property name in PartDesign.

Or the property get renamed to suppress(ed)

[chrisb]

Or the property get renamed to suppress(ed)

It would be good to have a visual feedback. For several reasons I would prefer to have an overlay icon with the same technique used for the tip; here it might be a red X.

[CCryder]

If you're using the pattern features, you can just reduce the occurrences down to a few. Then when you're ready, you can return them to the desired values.