I dont want to see hidden components in drawing mode, but they insist to appear

[Anonymous]

I dont want to see hidden components in drawing mode, but they insist to appear.

I dont want to delete them. Only hide them and then prepare a new drawing. but I couldnt find a solution.

Thank you very much for your answer.

Regards

Ertan Yildiz

[HughesTooling]

Did you try the lightbulbs and tick boxes in the drawing workspace.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much for your reply.

There are appr. 500 parts in the model.

Inside the MODEL workspace, I hide ap..100 parts. Then I switched to DRAWING workspace. I was expecting that the hidden parts will not be seen in 2d drawing.

If I use light bulbs left to the parts in DRAWING workspacek, I should again select 100 parts . This is very time consuming and not a fast process.

Therefore, I am trying to see whatever is seen in MODEL workspace also in DRAWING workspace.

Regards

Ertan Yildiz

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@HughesTooling wrote:

Did you try the lightbulbs and tick boxes in the drawing workspace.

Mark

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@HughesTooling wrote:

Did you try the lightbulbs and tick boxes in the drawing workspace.

Mark

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[HughesTooling]

I don't think that would be a good idea or your 2d drawing would change every time you make a change in the model workspace. You have an option when you create the drawing to select the components you want and you can edit that selection using the tick boxes in the 2d drawing workspace. If you really want your 2d drawing to keep changing every time you hide components you'll need to put a request on the ideastation but I think that option would cause havoc with most people's 2d drawings. 

Mark

[lnonnato]

Dear Ertan,

If I understand correctly, you hid some of the components of you model (switched off the corresponding lightbulbs) and wants to make a 2D drawing with only the visible components. You just need to uncheck the Full Assembly checkbox when creating the drawing and manually select the components to be included in the drawing.

Unluckily, I don't know of any method to automatically select all the visible components at once.

Please notice that, once created the drawing, I don't know of any way to include the previously hidden components.

Cheers,

Luiz

[HughesTooling]

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@lnonnato wrote:

Dear Ertan,

Please notice that, once created the drawing, I don't know of any way to include the previously hidden components.

Cheers,

Luiz

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That's what the tick boxes are for in the drawing workspace browser. You can change the initial selection from when the drawing was created.

Mark

[Anonymous]

I cant see which component I should hide in drawing mode. Therefore, I select the components in Model workspace. The main problem is that I selected 100 hundred component to hide. Therefore, it is very difficult for me to select again all the components in Drawing workspace.

I think I couldnt find an easy solution.

Regards

Ertan Yildiz

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@HughesTooling wrote:

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@lnonnato wrote:

Dear Ertan,

Please notice that, once created the drawing, I don't know of any way to include the previously hidden components.

Cheers,

Luiz

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That's what the tick boxes are for in the drawing workspace browser. You can change the initial selection from when the drawing was created.

Mark

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[HughesTooling]

I was going to say start a new 2d drawing, uncheck Assembly and window select all your visible components but I just tried it and it doesn't work. I got some odd results so I'll start another thread as a bug report.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

I thought I'd put my screencast here as well as the same procedure might work correctly for you. One note, make sure you have Select Through enabled in your selection filters.

Mark

[jltharin]

Dear @HughesTooling 

I tried as you have showed in your video. And with component part who contains components parts, it works as in your video.

I got an issue when I have a TOP level assembly who contains linked assembly who contains smaller linked assembly.

If they are linked assemblies who contains hidden component, the all assembly who is linked is also hidden.

And in the 2D drawings , it make automatically some sheets with different linked assemblies but not all.

And more the hidden parts in the 3D model are visible.

Here I selected the parts that I want to see in the 2D drawing as described in video. I don't selected the option to open each linked assembly in a new sheet. As you can see the component hidden "Crosses for silk..." is hidden and so not selected.

Here the result in 2D drawing, it opened two sheet with the linked assemblies (why two sheets I don't know) and the hidden part in 3D is show!

Either I did something wrong, either it has a bug when linked assembly is used

Do you check and let me know if I did something wrong, please?

Thank you in advance
Regards
jltharin

[jhoynash]

I can't believe this hasn't been dealt with. Why would anyone not want the default import to the drawing to be the visible components only? Toggle on what you want from there but don't make us toggle off everything we already hid in the model space! It's idiotic! They never fix anything people actually care about that improves the U.I. of the program. Dear Autodesk, do you make anything that actually works and based on user feedback? If so, I'd buy it. Please tell me what your brilliant developers have done about these basic problems in the last 5 years? :

-Why can't I offset an already offset line?

-Why are there imposed negative dimensions when I've already indicated the direction?

-Why can't I designate respective angles?

-Why can't I snap to line intersections (why must I tell the program there is a point there?)

-Why can't I array sketch items?

-Why can't I set default text settings?

[ClintBrown3D]

Hi @jhoynash 

I'm the product manager responsible for 2d drawings in Fusion 360. I'd like to invite you to connect with me directly, to discuss the issues that you are facing. It's my responsibility to ensure that we are building the right tools at the right time, and it sounds like we are not meeting your expectations. 

The best way to connect, is to jump on a Zoom call. Here is a link to my public calendar:  https://bit.ly/FusionDrawings Please book a 30 minute session with me, at a time that suits you. note times are in 24:00 format so 03:00 is 3am, 15:00 is 3pm). 

I look forward to fully understanding your requirements and discussing your current workflows.

cc: @Kyle.williamsJU9H9