Can't hide group via Scene Explorer

[office]

Hi,

I'm having problems hiding groups via Scene Explorer. If I click the light bulb to hide a particular group, nothing happens. Please check the attached screenshot. Is this a bug or some settings that I must change?

[Steve_Curley · Accepted solution]

Hmmm. I just tried this in 2012 which doesn't use scene explorers for Layers. Clicking the Lightbulb on the Group doesn't hide the contents of the group. Open the group then try toggling the lightbulb. In both 2012 and 2016 I can clearly see the Group object itself hiding/unhiding. Remember that Groups are NOT real containers - functionally they are more like a bone hierarchy - parent/child relationships. While it might be nice for the "contents" of a group to inherit the visibility of the group itself it would appear that they don't, and by the looks of it never have. If you double-click the Group (in the Layer Explorer) then it will select the children of that group object - you can then hide them all by toggling the lightbulb on the group or on any of the objects. This works because all the objects (group and "contents") are all selected.
Note. Does need Sort by Hierarchy enabled.

[office]

Ok, this requires far more clicks than I would like but it works. Thanks for the tip. I wish it had been made possible to hide it with a single click, it would be much more intuitive.

[Steve_Curley]

You could put the Groups on their own layer then you could hide them all with a single click 😉

Btw, I should point out that Groups have been known to cause problems - Layers, Selection Sets, Hierarchies - almost anything is preferable to using groups.

[msalmo21]

I know this is an old post but i just figured out a solution for the 2021 version. In the Scene Explorer, double click the group so everything is selcted first, then right click and press "hide selection" or use the eye, it will hide everything in the group.

[rock102]

Thanks, man! It is 2024, but problem still exists, or i am a dumb 🙂