Automatically suppress multiple features at once with a rule

Pretty sure you can do that through Pro/Program (Program). An IF THEN ELSE statement(s) should get you the results you want.

Explore the search tool.

For example:

You can create a search with two rules, the first select all the hole features like shown above:

the second rule select the ones that have the pretended dimension:

You can save this query too for later use.

Explore a little this tool to see how powerful it can be.

Another option is to create a layer with the previous rules, then you just have click on the layer, "select items" and "supress".

I found recently that is possible to copy layers from one model to another, this is really handy because you can have a model with all these layers with associative filters and just copy paste it to another.

Jose

Not easily, and not without advance planning.  If this is a model that you have full control over and want to build automation into, then yes.  If you simply want to open anyone's model, locate fasteners by size, and create a rule to suppress, then no.

• Pro-Program works fine to suppress and resume things, but you have to manually create the logical statements to do so in advance.
• Rules can be created to find certain types of objects, but to the best of my knowledge Pro-Program cannot make decisions based on them.

Here are the steps to automate with Pro-Program:

1. Create a parameter to represent your minimum hole size.  ex. MIN_SIZE
2. Edit Pro-Program
   1. Add an IF statement before each hole feature based on the parameter and the hole's dimension.
   2. Add an END IF after each ADD/END ADD block.
   3. Save the Program
3. Control which holes are suppressed by editing the value of MIN_SIZE (and regenerating).

Example (d18 is the hole diameter):

IF D18 > MIN_SIZE

    ADD FEATURE (XXX)

    .....

   END ADD

END IF