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Question asked by 1-A3AHKM on Mar 25, 2009
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I have a sheetmetal part with an extruded cut going through a flange. I have the feature end condition set to blind and the "link to material thickness" box checked. I now added a configuration where I need this cut to pass through another flange. Can this be controlled with the design table? I am using SW2007.

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Mark Kaiser Mar 25, 2009 2:16 PM
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I'm taking a guess you want to control the suppression state of the cut extrude with a design table. To do this, the header for the DT will read something like "$STATE@Cut-Extrude1", without the quotes. Then in the columns below, you can have a "S" for suppressed, and "U" for unsupressed.

You just have to be careful with parent/child relationships when doing this. Sometimes unsupressing a feature also unsuprresses a parent feature you still want supressed.
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- 1-A3AHKM @ Mark Kaiser on Mar 25, 2009 4:47 PM
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  Thanks Mark but that is not what I am looking to do. I have an extruded cut that is cutting through a material thickness of .048 and now I want that extruded cut to go about 18" so I can cut through another flange with the same geometry and location.
  
  Normally I would go to the feature manager and change the end condition to "up to surface" but that doesn't help me because I have the same cut that goes to different surfaces depending on the configuration.
  
  Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.
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  - Wayne Tiffany @ 1-A3AHKM on Mar 25, 2009 5:34 PM
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    Can you just configure the distance of the cut per config? Or give it a value that is out in the middle for all?
    
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    - 1-A3AHKM @ Wayne Tiffany on Mar 25, 2009 6:05 PM
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      Yes Wayne that is what I am going to do. I changed the feature to work with a dimension rather than surfaces. I don't know why I didn't just do that to begin with. It just all of a sudden came to me at lunch. Amazing how Burger King makes you see things more clearly.
      
      Thanks for the help.
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