Today proved most interesting & educational. It started when I received CAD data from Volkswagen on their new AdBlue system, or more accurate the location of the AdBlue Tank in the Volkswagen Crafter vehicle. First the files came in as a .ctp format & a Folder labelled ccrypt. So that took a phone call to work out (a compression encryption program) & a method of extracting the file into the iges files they were suppose to be. (Drag & drop the file into the entschluesselin.bat file. See that was easy!
So after sitting around watching the green bar scroll across the screen a few hundred times.
I ended up with, well very little apart from the Warning Message & two greyed out Assembly files.
Nothing to be concerned, just Unsuppress.
As a “S”Key, Command Manager, RBM (Right Button Mouse), use the same tools type of guy I did just that….RBM – Unsuppress
and got …….. a whole lot of unsuppressed Sub Assemblies with a whole lot of Suppressed Sub Assemblies & even more Suppressed Parts
I was faced with the prospect of a whole lot of Select & Unsuppress in front of me. So I entertain myself & tweeted
The SolidWorks Community responded with plenty of suggestions & advice.
Should be able to Select all (LBM + Shift – Select)
Which lead to more Suppressed Sub Assemblies & even more Suppressed Parts!
Then Lou Gallo (SolidWorks Heard) tweeted
and as simple as that:
I ended up with what I needed…. (& another 6 files to review)
So a SolidWorks Lesson Learnt
Special Thanks to all my friend, @SteveOstrovsky , @gupta9665 , @MegaHertz604, @JeffMirisola , @gol10dr , @MetalDesigner for the advice & support.
Check out their Blogs:
Lou’s SolidWorks Heard – Weekly Podcast
Deepak Boxer’s SolidWorks Blog
Jeff”s Jeff’s Tool Shed
Dan’s 6.04 Megahertz
Michael Lord 
3 responses to “Unsuppress with Dependents – SolidWorks Lesson Learnt”
I love these types of posts! Keep it up, and thanks for the plug.
Thanks Dan. It’s the one thing I miss from most of the other SW bloggers. A few years ago there were lots of post like these, but most of there blog’s have evolved away from the basic – intermediate level.It can be the start of my series What Michael doen’t know about SolidWorks! That should give me years of posts!
<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Haha, sounds good. I’ll try to get into the habit of posting this kind of thing too. Practice what I preach, so to speak. And now that I have a big import project too, I hope I’ll have the opportunity more often.<br><br><div>Daniel Herzberg</div><div><a href="mailto:dherzberg@alum.wpi.edu">dherzberg@alum.wpi.edu</a></div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br></div></body></html>