Help with the meaning of an error

[clamschlauder]

All,

I am getting the following error: "cannot add a new feature to the tool body of a suppressed boolean feature"

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,


David

 

[clamschlauder]

Sorry. Some missing information.

I am using NX8.0.0.25

Also, the biggest thing I cannot figure out is that I have no boolean features suppressed before I am getting this error.

David

 

[cowski]

Boolean features include unite, subtract, and intersect; if any of these are suppressed that may be where the error is coming from. If so, use "make current feature" to roll back the history before the boolean before making your edits.

Do you have any other parts open that link back to your current work part? If so, the error message may be coming from one of these other parts when it tries to update after your edit.

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[JohnRBaker]

This message is not so much an 'error' as it's an 'explanation' of why you are unable to perform the operation that you're attempting.

As for this idea that you have no 'Suppressed' Booleans, make sure that you do not have any Filters set. Go to the Part Navigator, press MB3 and if you see the 'Apply Filter' item toggled ON, try toggling it OFF and see if the helps.

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[clamschlauder]

Cowski,

Thanks for the reply. I do not have any boolean features suppressed. This part is the only open part.

Maybe explaining what is going on will help. Right now the part is 916 features long. I am trying to edit back at around 120. The features were not a problem before I made a few changes. I know it probably had something to do with those changes but I need to figure out what the error means before I can attack this to investigate it.

 

[jerry1423]

Maybe do a part clean-up to see if that helps
File -> Utilities -> Part Clean-Up

 

[cowski]

Also be aware that some creation tools (such as extrude and revolve) can create 'embedded' booleans. You can specify to unite or subtract the extrude at the time of creation and that boolean doesn't show up in the feature tree (unfortunately, in my opinion). Have you used a boolean option during feature creation?

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[clamschlauder]

No Filters on. I still did not figure out what the exact problem was. I ended up deleting the feature and starting over. All is fine now. The problem was somewhere within a pattern feature.

Thanks for every ones responses.

 

[clamschlauder]

Not sure. It is possible. What is the difference between Extruded and Extrude in the parts tree?? Seems to me the difference is Extrude you can go back and edit just like you did when you first created the feature where as Extruded you can only edit dimensions really. The 3 Extrudes that I had suppressed before the feature that was giving me trouble are all "Extruded" which I cannot find where to change that boolean if I have one.

Is the feature called "Extruded" if it is part of a separate boolean and "Extrude" only if it has an internal or no boolean???? This would be the only reason I can think of.

David

 

[JohnRBaker]

The difference in the names, 'Extrude' versus 'Extruded', has to do with WHEN the feature was created. Up through NX 1.0 the name of the feature was 'Extruded'. With NX 2.0 the Extrusion feature was completely re-implemented but we continued to support the edting of the older, pre-NX 2.0 'Extruded'. So as to help users distinguish the difference we changed the name used for the new 'Extrude' feature. And yes, one of the characteristics of the newer 'Extrude' features was that you can edit not only it's parameters but also the Boolean operation used when the feature was created. This was not possible with the older 'Extruded' features.

Anyway, I hope this helps.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
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[clamschlauder]

Yes that clears that up. Thank you very much.