SpaceDesign - Filtering which components to include in report

I sent you a pdf file that I made with space design..

you will see some small 2" lengths reported and some components without part numbers, their lengths being reported, which I'd prefer they did not report.

Is there an easy way to suppress these values and only keep the longer values?

thanks again for your help as I'm not all that familiar with your advanced features.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on November 18, 2010 at 11:45am

See this article: SpaceDesign Filtering

You will need to create a new, non-display, attribute which will be set to true for the components you want to skip. And then mark the new attributes as 'skip_if'

for example, add a new variable called: too_short, and mark it as "skip if true", then any components with too_short set will be skipped.

too_short would be calculated using an expression, for example, if you had another attribute called 'length', then the expression could be: '%length%' < 6

This would be true for any components with a length less than 6".

while testing, include too_short in your report, and you should be able to see which components display it as true. (Which will then be filtered out when you set 'skip_if' to true for the 'too_short' attribute.