Hide objects and lock

[Anonymous]

Is there a way objects can be hidden and "locked"?

We don't want them "un-hidden"

Once certain objects are hidden and the .NWD file is turned over to others, the hiden obects need to stay hidden.

The "unhide all" function turns it all back on.

The hidden ojects need to stay hidden or be deleted from the saved .NWD file.

Thanks

[Patrick_Aps_9121 · Accepted solution]

Not to my knowlegde.

you should start a change request to have hidden items left out of the NWD on publish or SaveAs, so that I'm not alone in asking that in a future release.

The only thing you can do is:

Check your options first -> Interface -> Viewpoint Defaults: set "Save Hide/Required Attributes" ON

-> From now on, the fact if items are "hidden or not" is saved within the viewpoint.

Restart navisworks

Open your NWF. Hide all that is needed to be hidden

Create a new Viewpoint

Change your view, unhide all

Activate the viewpoint and all what you hid should be hidden again.

and teach your Freedom users to use Viewpoints...

If the NWF already had viewpoints you may need to update or re-create those. Viewpoints that already existed will not hide the items again after an unhide all. Exporting and Importing the viewpoints does NOT include what needs to be hidden.

[Anonymous]

Export the model as a 3D DWF. Then open a new Navisworks model and attach the 3D DWF. Also, it retains all layer information so if you are using plant 3D, Advance steel etc it will still include all of the property info when you highlight an item. 

[Anonymous]

Hi

I came on this thread bacause I had the same problem. I now found a work around so that Unhide All doesn't affect anymore.

Here are the steps:

1. Create Selection Sets with the objects you want to hide.

2. Use Appearance Profiler to change the the transparency of the object you previously selected (Selction Sets) to 100%. Run and save this profiler.

With this method the objects are actually still in the model but they are invisible (100% transparency).

Hope this helps!