Hide/Show Entities  

Hide or show selected geometric entities. This topic describes the interaction from the Visibility Floating Toolbar; see also Assembly Tree Hide/Show operations.

The following Hide/Show tools are available from Tools Toolbar:

	Entities/Components Visibility	Manage visibility for components or for entities inside components.
	Show	Show selected entities.
	Hide	Hide selected entities.
	Hide Other	Hide everything except for the selected/highlighted geometry.   Demo: Press the button below to view a short movie demonstrating the function:
	Hide/Show Toggle	Hide all visible entities and Show all hidden entities.

Notes:

• To show and hide groups of entities, or entities of a certain criteria, you can use Sets.

• To show and hide all entities of a certain type, use the Selection Filter to narrow your selection and drag a box to include all entities. Only those entities specified in the Selection Filter will be hidden or displayed.

• In the Assembly application when showing entities, only activated entities/components will be shown. This means that when you click Show, all the hidden entities are not displayed at once; only those entities that are currently activated will be shown.

• When Show is clicked, the datum filter ( ) is by default switched off (except in NC). This is to avoid the possibility of multiple datums being displayed when showing entities.

• The Hide/Show tool can be used together with the Previous/Next tool to maneuver backwards and forwards between screen displays of entity visibility.

 

Example of Entities/Components Visibility

Manage visibility for components or for entities inside components. This is toggle option is available in the Assembly environment.

The system has two hide/show modes while working in an assembly environment:

The first mode (Components mode ) hides and shows entire parts when the assembly is active. In this mode, in order to hide and show entities within parts, you have to first activate the part.

The second mode (Entities mode ) hides and shows entities within the parts even when the assembly is active.

 

The Entities/Components Visibility toggle states are as follows:

	Components mode (button not highlighted). Hide and show entire parts when the assembly is active.
	Entities modes (button highlighted). Hide and show entities within the parts even when the assembly is active.

In order to switch between the Components and Entities modes, click the Entities/Components Visibility toggle button on the floating toolbar. When this button is highlighted, you are in the Entities mode.

 

To hide entities/components:

Toggle the Entities/Components Visibility button to Entities mode (button highlighted ).

 

Pick the entity to be hidden. In this example, note that the selected entity is not active and that it is a face on one of the instances of the slider guiding rails.

Note: The entity can also be selected before activating the Entities mode toggle.

 

Press the Hide button to hide the selected entities.

In this example, note that all instances of the selected entity within the guiding rail component are hidden and that the change was applied only to the selected entities and not to the entire component.

Note also that hiding an entity does not affect the hide/show status of its component in the Assembly Tree. (If you used the component filter and selected a component, then hiding it will turn its light off on the tree.)

To show entities/components:

Toggle the Entities/Components Visibility button to Entities mode (button highlighted ).

 

Press the Show button. This shows all hidden entities in all components that have a show status (or partial show status) in the Assembly Tree.

 

Pick the entities that you want to remain shown; in this case pick the component "holding" the hidden entity.

 

Press <exit><exit>(middle mouse button) twice to complete the selection and to exit Show mode. All the specified entities are now displayed.

Example of Hide and Show

Hide/Show selected entities.

On the part below, the top face and the spline are to be hidden.	Click the Hide button . First pick the top face. Make sure that Face is selected from the Selection Filter. The cursor will tell you what type of entity you are selecting.
Next pick the spline. Make sure that Curves / Spline is selected from the Selection Filter.	Press <exit><exit>(middle mouse button) to complete the selection and the two picked entities are hidden. You are still in Hide mode, as you can see by the pressed Hide button . In this stage you can pick additional entities and press exit to hide them. Press exit again to exit Hide mode. Note that this is not the same as using Remove Geometry, which would actually delete the entities.
To display the entities again, click the Show button . All hidden entities are displayed. Pick the entities that you want to remain shown; in this case the top face and the spline (or select By Box).	Press <exit><exit>(middle mouse button) twice to complete the selection and to exit Show mode. All the specified entities are now displayed.

 

Example of Hide Other

Hide everything but the selected geometry.

Pick the face that you want to be shown (all other faces will be hidden). In this example, the top cylindrical face is picked:	Click the Hide Other button . All other objects are hidden:

 

Example of Hide/Show Toggle

Hide all visible entities and Show all hidden entities.

Pick the face which you want to hide, as shown below:	The required face is selected, as shown in the example below.
Click the Hide button to hide the selected face, as follows:	Click the Hide/Show Toggle button to hide the shown entities and show the hidden entities, as follows:

 

Some functionality may be dependent on the product package. Contact your Reseller if you require a license.