I am trying to make a design table that shows or hides certain sketches or even parts in my assembly. But I have over 100 configurations and that would take me many hours to suppress everything. Is there a way to use my design table to turn these on/off?
I just made a revision to that title from Hidden to Hide. I might have typed it like that because I was getting frustrated with the monotonous tasks that I've been doing recently.
I have a complete understanding of the design table suppression, which I currently use, but I cannot find anywhere on Solidworks help anything about being able to control "Hide" for any kind of feature in a design table.
Maybe this is something that Solidworks should implement in their software? If there is already a clever technique, I'd love to know about it!
IF display states can be controlled with configurations then that might be a solution for you, but I don't know if that is possible as I rarely use them in my work.
Watch your phraseology! (Quote from Mayor Shin in The Music Man.)
Your post title refers to hiding, but the message says suppression. Suppression state is easily controlled in a Design Table. If you have a bunch of configurations already existing and all of the features you want affected by suppression state control are suppressed/unsuppressed in at least one configuration for each state, then when you go to make a Design Table all you have to do is let it do it automatically. All those features and their current suppression states will be in the DT. You can then edit the whole shebang in the DT spreadsheet. Easy peazy.
I do not know if you can control Hide/Show in the DT, though I am doubtful it can be done without some clever techniques. However, if those clever techniques exist then someone here on the forum has done it!