Best Choice of Visibility: Component or Body?

[Inspections_JCH]

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?

[tmostad · Accepted solution]

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.

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1. hide body > only the body is hidden

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

günther

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

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.