Inventor 2015 - iLogic – Make Feature Suppression More Efficient Part 2

by Luke Davenport

A good question was posted:

Can this feature suppression code be used for suppressing components as well? 

Well as the answer is yes - I thought it would make a good quick blog. Here’s the minor tweaks you need:

1)      Create a multi-value parameter (as before), and make the values ‘PartA’, ‘PartB’, ‘PartC’ etc…..

2)      Make sure you rename the ‘Browser Nodes’, so that the component names in the browser don’t have the ‘:1’, ‘:2’ etc.

3)      Make sure you create a custom level of detail (if you haven’t already). You can see in the picture below I have a custom level of detail (LOD) called ‘iLogic’ active. This is a standard requirement in order to be able to suppress components in Inventor.

4)      Use the (only slightly) modified code below.

And you should be good to go.

Here’s the code. Enjoy!

' Start of iLogic code ******************************

' Create an arraylist containing the multi-value list

ParameterValues = MultiValue.List("CadlineLogo")

' Loop through all values in arraylist

For Each Value As String In ParameterValues

    Try  

        If Value = CadlineLogo Then

            Component.IsActive(Value) = True

        ElseIf Component.IsActive(Value) = True

            Component.IsActive(Value) = False

        End If

    Catch

  End Try

Next

InventorVb.DocumentUpdate()

' End of iLogic code ******************************