Dynamic Suppression of features based expression if a certain Configuration is active

Erci_Cheung · April 17

I like to suppress feature based on the configuration, is there a way to do this in the dynamic suppression expression to check which configuration is active or some other way. I can make a variable and set it but this would be simpler.

MichaelPascoe · April 17

Yes, and there are more ways to do this but here is a starting point for you:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a3700d230eeefbe266f4830b/w/b0ecc9fe904f82db35bd955f/e/67bd2110e7791….

And here is a guide for How to use logical operators 📌

Set the configuration's feature id's to something you can actually type like "Shape":

Create a variable "isSquare" or whatever you want to describe and use operators

Right click the feature and add the dynamic suppression expression to it, here is where you can insert your "isSquare" variable.

Do the same thing for your "circle sketch" except insert !#isSquare which will reverse the true false value.

Note: you can control selections and queries with this kind of logic too, but query variable doesn't support it yet so you will have to use something like Query Finder feature to easily turn them into variables that you can modify.

MichaelPascoe · April 17

Yes, and there are more ways to do this but here is a starting point for you:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a3700d230eeefbe266f4830b/w/b0ecc9fe904f82db35bd955f/e/67bd2110e7791….

And here is a guide for How to use logical operators 📌

Set the configuration's feature id's to something you can actually type like "Shape":

Create a variable "isSquare" or whatever you want to describe and use operators

Right click the feature and add the dynamic suppression expression to it, here is where you can insert your "isSquare" variable.

Do the same thing for your "circle sketch" except insert !#isSquare which will reverse the true false value.

Note: you can control selections and queries with this kind of logic too, but query variable doesn't support it yet so you will have to use something like Query Finder feature to easily turn them into variables that you can modify.

ilya_baran · April 17

There are cases when what Michael is suggesting is necessary, but for most common cases, you can just configure suppression with the relevant config input and then convert one or more of the cells to an expression by right-clicking in the configuration table.

MichaelPascoe · April 17

oops, i read too far into it 😁
thought you were wanting to control those features via multiple configurations rather than one configuration.

Erci_Cheung · April 17

This still requires a variable to be created. I was hoping for a way to do it without a variable by directly accessing the configuration name at the dynamic configuration expression maybe something like: ([config]=="Default?True:False)

Erci_Cheung · April 17

Don't suppose there's a way to skip creating the variable and directly access the configuration ID? toString([current_configuration])=="Default"

MichaelPascoe · April 21

You can skip creating the variable and directly insert the equation into the dynamic suppression, but this will make redundant work for yourself so its best practice to create a variable first.

Also this method is not needed at all if you only have 1 configuration list like @ilya_baran mentioned. Simply right click the feature and "configure with [name of your configuration]. This will let you turn the feature on or off for different values of the list.

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