You suppress one feature and everything underneath it gets suppressed. You cringe, a volcano erupts under the sea and five babies are born, slapped and all at once and named Llyod. Don’t you wish those ornery SolidWorks Features would just behave sometimes?
Well there just so happens to be, not one, but two single ways to make sure your features will always work for the configuration you need them in. What is it?? We could choke it up to ‘having a plan’ but that just won’t do. We need specifics and that’s what we’re about to drop on ya.
Now, if you use configurations, within the mayhem of part version creation and feature suppression, you’ll know creating features to work well with those configurations can be a fine art. Fortunately, there’s the FeatureManager and a nice little thing called history.
The history (stack of features) can cause some pain, but it can also allow you to manipulate and locate feature to work perfectly for what you need to show in each configuration. That’s a single thing, but not the two single things we need to focus on.
The two ways to set up features for making them more useful in configurations are…
Oh, well, now that strawberry jam and smiles have been spread all over it’s exterior, we’re never gonna full resale value. It does however make me feel like dancing, fist punching the air and checking out these snazzy lookin’ links.
The last time I saw something this lovable and all together creepy, Sigourney Weaver was watching mama Alien get sucked through a quarter-size hull breach. Shown at the 
If you’re an old hat at using public transit, or someone trying frantically to go site-seeing, in the bustling, historic cities of Europe, you’ll know how important bus information can be.
Cover your hair. We are firing up the burners on the Feature furnace of SolidWorks about to drop some gas-drenched geometry into the flames.
Oh, It starts innocent enough. First, it’s, “Let’s turn this desk into liquid-cooled, quad crankin’ beast!,” then suddenly it’s, “Papa, can I replace my spleen with hybridized nitrogen cooling units?”
So what do ya think, is SolidWorks ‘old lady CAD’ out for a stroll only to trip over a small grain of feature-based modeling, tumbling face-first into a small ditch mumbling, “hebber, hebber..” Hmmmm. I see some CAD vendors lookin’ on in anticipation.
Simply smashing I say! A small child climbing backwards up a river of chocolate with two poodles and a baby penguin dancing atop his head? Amazing! Have you finished your tea dear? Yes! On to… the links! 
I know your brainpan is sore from beating it against the wall of deadlines you have looming, but if you have a website in one hand and some 3d models in the other, you can smash those together right now to splatter everyone with your 3D genius.
Yep, SolidSmack is starting to reek of greasy touch-screen bliss. Let’s pummel this iPhone stuff even further into the ground. You remember that 
