[Feature request] : ability to suppress (and unsuppress) Features

[Piero69]

I feel useful the ability to control a model by suppressing features when needed. Features are removed from the model (but not deleted) and disappear from the model view. They should shown in light gray in the design tree. Obviously if the feature has child features, the child features are also suppressed. all that must be reversible by unsupprensing

[Kunda1]

I feel useful the ability to control a model by suppressing features when needed. Features are removed from the model (but not deleted) and disappear from the model view. They should shown in light gray in the design tree. Obviously if the feature has child features, the child features are also suppressed. all that must be reversible by unsupprensing

issue #3398
@realthunder may have a solution for this in his LinkStage3 branch?

pinged by pinger macro

@OficineRobotica is that true ?

[OficineRobotica]

@OficineRobotica is that true ?

I hope that I got what he means correctly but realthunder has already implemented that in linkstage3 . Right click on a feature in the tree -> suppress if I remember correctly. I'm on mobile

[OficineRobotica]

phpBB [video]

[Kunda1]

sweet! love that you make these videos and extract the gems hidden in LinkStage3...keep going!

FYI, before you post videos try to run your text through something like codespell, i've seen some spelling mistakes in the text annotations before.

[OficineRobotica]

i've seen some spelling mistakes in the text annotations before.

Thank you for letting me know that. I usually do my text in libreoffice with spell checking but , at this point, seems that something has skipped. I'll be allot more careful next time. Let's just keep spreading the word about FreeCAD

[Kunda1]

Thank you for letting me know that. I usually do my text in libreoffice with spell checking but , at this point, seems that something has skipped. I'll be allot more careful next time. Let's just keep spreading the word about FreeCAD

Off topic: codespell is great. I contribute to it a lot.
codespell -q 3 will find all typos
codespell -i 3 -w will autocorrect them for you.

[jwatkins672003]

Has the suppress feature been added to FreeCAD yet or will it be added in the next release 0.22?

Because I want to create a short if statement in the equation box for the suppress attribute such that if a feature becomes smaller than x, then this other feature gets suppressed / turned off.

Thanks, Jim.

[NewJoker]

Has the suppress feature been added to FreeCAD yet or will it be added in the next release 0.22?

It's WIP: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues/12361

[flachyjoe]

FYI since 0.22.0dev.36220, PartDesign features are suppressible by right-click on properties, show all and switch the Suppress property to false.

@jwatkins672003 you can set an expression for the Suppress property, eg.

Code: Select all

Radius < 1 mm ? True : False

Notice:

• boolean combo box doesn't show the fx icon, expression editor is available throw the contextual menu, Expression…
• a suppressed feature can raise a TNP if something is based on it
• with older version a suppressed feature can only be unsuppressed with a document recompute.