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Controlling visibility of individual objects |
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To hide an object, select it in the Design Tree or in the graphic area of the model and click the icon Visible 
in this object's row in the Design Tree. The icon will change to Hidden 
. The object will no longer be displayed in the graphic range, while its name and icon in the Design Tree will be shaded.
To hide several objects at once, select them and invoke the Hide command from the context menu.
To make a hidden object visible, select it in the Design Tree and click the icon Hidden in the Design Tree. The icon will change to Visible . The object will be displayed in the graphic range, while its name and icon in the Design Tree will turn black.
To show several objects at once, select them and invoke the Show command from the context menu.
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The Hide (Show) command is not available if all the selected objects are already hidden/shown. |
Please note that the solid is always shown or hidden in full, even if an individual shaping operation was selected when invoking the Show or Hide command. For example, after activating display of a glued extrusion element, the entire solid containing this element will be displayed on the screen; after the element is hidden, the entire solid will be hidden.
The same applies to surfaces. For example, after showing or hiding the surface involved in the operation Knit surfaces, all other surfaces involved in the same operation will appear or disappear in the graphical model area.
After invoking the Show or Hide command for other objects (auxiliary axes, curves, points, etc.) only those objects will be shown or hidden in the graphic range of the model.
Applying the Hide or Show command to the object modifies the Visibility property of such object: this will become Hidden or Visible accordingly.
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Managing visibility of the second and subsequent level components has specific features. They are described below. |
Features of managing visibility of the second and subsequent level components
Model components of the second and subsequent levels can inherit the Visible/Hidden state. The Visible/Hidden value is transferred to the current model from the source model containing the component. When the component state changes in the source model, its state in the current model will change automatically.
The inherited component state is shown in the Design Tree with the following icons:
Inherited - Visible,
Inherited - Hidden.
By default, all the model components of the second and subsequent levels possess the inherited visibility state. To ensure that the data from the source do not affect the current model, you can disable inheritance for the component. The following methods are available.
•in the Design Tree, click the inheritance icon and invoke the Visible command or Hidden from the appearing menu,
•Select the component in the Design Tree or in the graphic area of the model and invoke the Hide or Show command from the context menu.
After inheritance is disabled, the component state will be defined by the value set in the current model.
If you want to restore inheritance of the state, call the Inherits command from the icon menu in the Design Tree. or the Inherit from parent command from the component's context menu. The icon in the Tree will change and the component state will be transferred from the source.
If you want to restore inheritance of the state for all components included in the Components section of the Design Tree, invoke the Inherit for all next levels command from the context menu of this section (the section is displayed if the Design Tree is visible). Structural Representation). After running the command, the value Inherited will be assigned to all components of the second and subsequent levels within the section. The state (Included/Excluded) will be transferred from the source of the components. The Inherit for all next levels command can be called for the section Components, located at any level of the Tree.
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During "in place" editing of a model containing the second and subsequent level components, note the following features. For the time of editing, inheritance of state is switched to manually set. The visible/hidden value corresponds to the inherited one, i.e. if the component is visible in the source, it also becomes visible in the current model, and vice versa. Instead of the icons Inherited – visible and Inherited – hidden, the icons Visible and Hidden are displayed accordingly. If the component state in the current assembly was changed, the icon is marked with "*". For example, the component is visible in the source model but hidden in the current model. In the course of 'in place' editing, the icon Visible (as in the original model) is displayed for the component, marked with '*'. After "in place" editing is completed, the state of components is restored. |
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