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Having a difficult time hiding components within an assembly

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chad38
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Having a difficult time hiding components within an assembly

I have an assembly I'm working in, and it would be helpful to hide some of them because I'm still adding parts to it, and I cannot see. When I turn off visibility to some of the parts, I get a dialogue asking if I wish to remove associativity. This is because I'm driving the location of some holes off of other parts in the assembly. Is there no way to hide some of these components without removing the associativity? I just want to be able to see inside of here, not get rid of the components altogether.

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Cadmanto
in reply to: chad38

Did you look in to creating levels of detail?  Or maybe creating an iassembly factory file.

 

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blair
in reply to: chad38

Or View-Reps as well as the mentioned LOD's. LOD's are primarily used to reduce the memory footprint. If you structure your View-Reps/LOD's they can also be used in your drawings as well.

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chad38
in reply to: Cadmanto

Yes, I have created an additional level of detail, however this doesn't seem to change whether or not hiding a component results in it wanting me to remove associativity. This is the first major assembly I've put together in inventor, so perhaps I'm not getting something about this. But I have a new level of detail active and it won't let me hide some things without removing associativity.

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Message 5 of 12
chad38
in reply to: chad38

Okay, now I tried suppressing the components instead of turning off visibility and I didn't get the same or any dialogue about associativity. Would suppressing these components be an acceptible way of achieving what I'm looking for? Is there any problems that may arise if I suppress them?

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blair
in reply to: chad38

I just tried using the "Supress" in a View-Rep with items that are adaptive to other parts. Suppressing the other parts didn't post any message about Adaptive

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blair
in reply to: chad38

Suppress is all I ever use.

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Message 8 of 12
chad38
in reply to: blair

So am I to understand that "suppressing" a component in an assembly doesn't affect the assembly in the same way that suppressing a feature does in the part?

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Message 9 of 12
Cadmanto
in reply to: chad38

It depends on your definition of acceptible.  I also suggested creating a factory file which can kind of sorta do the asme thing with out having to create LOD's.  You can suppress these components within the factory table and control everything there.  This would give you the same end result without creating an LOD.

 

 

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Message 10 of 12
chad38
in reply to: Cadmanto

Acceptible as in I only wish to be able to see inside of my assembly, but I don't want this to affect the assembly in any way other that me being able to hide the component, as in hide it so I can see past it.

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Message 11 of 12
blair
in reply to: chad38

No parts will fly around. Think of an engine assembly. You can work on the heads much easier if you suppress the block, crank and pistons. The heads will still remain in their correct position at the top of the block even though the engine block is suppress. Not like working in a IPT where you suppress a feature and it disappears and any features that rely on the suppress feature will fail as well.

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Message 12 of 12
PaulMunford
in reply to: chad38

I think that this warning only deals with associativity with the current view rep, not associativity between parts.

If you're in the default view, turning part visibilities on and off on the fly - ignore it.

If you want to be able to turn the visibility of the same parts on and off frequently, or you want to refer to the view in a drawing or presentation file - save it as a view rep.

Test it out and let us know what conclusions you draw.

 


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