The .IDW side of Inventor needs careful, focused attention and a lot of
programming hours. The hidden line bug born in R7 is evidence of changes
made without proper attention to detail causes problems, frustration and
expense to users(listen up Autodesk QA department, we are talking about
money here).
In the mean time, you may want to work more with design views to control
visibility of certain parts in your assembly, it is much faster than trying
to individually hide items, and you can apply them selectively to specific
views.
Anthony.
"David Radlin" wrote in message
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> Autodesk, please give me more tools to control hidden line visibility in
> IDW's. We loose countless hours turning off extraneous hidden lines in
> attempt to create legible drawing views.
>
> Improvements we to see include:
>
> 1. Selection of lines in an IDW view by feature for subsequent visibility
> toggling (as you can for colour and linetype).
>
> 2. Selection of lines in an IDW view by edge type for subsequent
visibility
> toggling (eg hidden edge filter) and further the ability to use this
filter
> select all filtered edges by view.
>
> 3. Ability to suppress hidden line display on a part-by-part basis (as you
> can for sectioning).
>
> 4. Ability to suppress hidden line display on a part-by-part basis of all
> "self generated" hidden lines. By "self generated" hidden lines I mean
> lines that are hidden because the represented edge is obscured by the part
> itself rather than another part. So thinking in the context of the
assembly
>
> 5. Suppress hidden line display beyond a reference plane in a view.
>
> Perhaps some or all of these functions may some day be do-able via VBA -
if
> that is the case then hurry up and get on with the IDW environment
exposure
> to the API.
>
> Hidden line controls such as these and persistent design views in the IDW
> environment are (from our application perspective) the top remaining time
> wasters and product short comings. Fix these and as far as I am concerned
> most of the rest is just gravy.
>
> Dave
>
>