topic Re: Best Choice of Visibility: Component or Body? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Best Choice of Visibility: Component or Body?

Inspections_JCH — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 15:49:16 GMT

I am learning my Browser Management and Navigating skills with practice drills. So these are not real parts but just simple shapes. I am naming every component and body to match the parts of my design.

When making the choice to turn off the visibility of either a body or the entire component, what differences will I notice?

Re: Best Choice of Visibility: Component or Body?

tmostad — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 15:56:25 GMT

Components can be made up of multiple bodies so visibility will affect either each body or all of the bodies that are parts of the component.

Re: Best Choice of Visibility: Component or Body?

g-andresen — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 15:57:13 GMT

Hi,

1. hide body > only the body is hidden

2. hide component > all elements included (body, sketches, planes...) are hidden

günther

Re: Best Choice of Visibility: Component or Body?

jeff_strater — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:20:19 GMT

A lot is workflow and personal preference. However, one thing to know: If you have external components (Inserted), you can change the component visibility from the referencing design, while you cannot change the body visibility without editing the referenced design (either in a separate tab or using Edit In Place). For that reason, I tend to stick to component visibility. I tend to usually on have bodies visible in components once they are completed, so issues such as sketch or work plane visibility are not often an issue.