Surpressing when LocalPattern 1

[vidgolob]

I have a problem.

I am working on some very large assemblies, and I have to use LocalPattern to save me about a months time. What I am doing is assemblying our product ( a dusting filter ) with all of its fasteners, and that makes a huge assembly. After I completed the basic one I just started adding tiles and rows of the same product using LocalPattern to make the larger systems. My problem is that there is one change on larger systems and when I try to surpress the part that is no longer there ( the part is on the patterned model, not the original - that one has to stay ), they are both/all surpressed. I made the assembly using sub-assemblies. Hiding the part isnt an option.
Is it possible to make this surpress happen or am I doing this wrong alltogether.

Thank you for your time,

Vid Golob
R&D
TRM Filter
Slovenia

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Open the assy containing the LocalPattern. Edit the Local Pattern and Skip the unwanted instance.

 

[Eltron]

In your pattern have you tried the "Instances to Skip" option?

Dan

http://www.eltronresearch.com

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[SteveMartin]

Let me restate your problem first to see if I understand what you're trying to do. Within a 'top level' assembly you have a subassembly patterned many times, and on some but not all of the patterned items (but not the seed item) you want to suppress one or more of the subassembly's components, but not the whole subassembly.

If this is the case, I would make a configuration of the subassembly that has this part suppressed, and switch the relevant patterned copies to this configuration after making the pattern. When you create a pattern the same configuration will be used for all instances, but you can go back and modify it to have different configs in different instances. I generally don't like to work this way, but it may be just what you need.

If instead you just need 'holes' in your otherwise uniform pattern, instances to skip should work as mentioned above. Suppressing the instance should also work, though I'd prefer skipping.

 

[vidgolob]

thank you for that.The problem with ?Instances to Skip? is that it only allows me to skip the entire pattern. I have to get rid of just two parts within that pattern.