Invert Selection

[josh.lopez-binder]

It would be really usefull for large assemblies to invert the current selection.

When I am working on a large assembly I sometimes want to only view a few components or sub-assemblies. This makes it much easier to see the components and make changes to them. If I could simply select the components I care about, invert selection, and then hide all those newely selected components, that would be great! 

Of course if there is another route to achieve the same thing I am fine with that too.

[Zero__]

At my old job, this is something we would have to do all the time in NX/Unigraphics when working with huge, complicated assemblies (we were building a space capsule). This would definitely be a useful feature.

[RobbGodshaw]

I would use this every day.

As it stands, I typically right click and enter isolation mode, but it is hard to design this way.

+1

[TrippyLighting]

A workaround or better alternate feature as already been suggested is to select these components and isolate them. Isolate also works on a group of components.

The second thing you can do is to create selection sets of different groups of components and then hide-unhide these selection sets. This is also very powerful.

I see that inverting the selection could have added benefit so I am going to vote for this.

[josh.lopez-binder]

This makes sense! Since posting I have begun to use the isolate command quite frequently.

Is it possible to isolate a selection set?

[TrippyLighting]

Yes. Isolate always hides what is selected. If you manually select one or more parts it isolates one or more parts. That means once you have slected your selection set you can simply isolate it.

[josh.lopez-binder]

Awesome, I see indeed that it does. thanks for the rapid response!

[Anonymous]

It's great that we can Isolate things, but would also awesome to have the ability to quickly (and by quickly I mean with one click, or even a keyboard shortcut) get back to the state before isolation. That would speed up things quite considerably IMO. 

Cheers 

Luke

[JBerns]

Indeed. Inventor has "Undo Isolate" and it is very helpful.

I hope to see this functionality in a future release of Fusion.

Regards,

Jerry

[JBerns]

Josh,

I realize this is an old post, so I hope you have discovered that Fusion does now have an Invert Selection tool.

Regards,

Jerry

[Anonymous]

I'll vote for this, when working with assembly's, it would be handy to hide the components I am working on and then just invert the selection so that every thing else is now hidden and only the components I want to see or cut are shown, if the invert was selected at the assembly level and turned on/off the components in the tree, as it is now, show/hide and show all only affect the assembly and not the individual components.