Show Hide not showing after inerting a Solidworks group of components

[fishtruk]

Hi,

I just inserted a stp I downloaded from a company's website. It's simple, about 20 components and I started working with them.

All of a sudden I can't Show some of the objects I was just looking at. There are no meshes, etc., just boxes, cylinders and such, simple.

Any clues on this...update problems?

Thanks,

Nelson

[fishtruk]

here's a pic..light bulbs are on but only certain objects show up..??

[fishtruk]

After playing with it, I can hide but I can't show now. It started out working ok.

I'll restart the comp. now...we'll see.

[fishtruk]

I hope this helps...screencast.. 

[fishtruk]

try again.

[fishtruk]

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/0f9ec5a2-e755-42f8-a1d1-7d894e2805ff

[fishtruk]

Here's an F3D file. Other files work okay...What have I done? Have I broken something?

[HughesTooling]

You've hidden the bodies not the components.

[fishtruk]

Mark,

Thanks for finding that.

There is a bug I can't point at - or there is a shortcut way of Hiding bodies I am unaware of and must have done by mistake.

I am obviously working on a standard mold base, and making cavities in same. I Hide all components on the B side, then put the model on the A side, Combine, Cut, to make the cavity. Then I Unhide all the B side and Hide the A side to do the same when I couldn't unhide anything.

At no point did I expand the dropdown to see the Bodies of the Bodies. There has to be a secret way of Hiding without dropping down the dropdown. That or it's a bug.

When I click one component then click further down whilst holding the Shift key to select them, then Hide does it affect all levels? I'll try it now.

Thanks for all the help!

[fishtruk]

I've no idea what happened.

[SaeedHamza]

Hi,

Pressing the V key on the keyboard turns off/on the visibility of the bodies, but the component's visibility stays unaffected, maybe you pressed the V key many times when selecting the bodies in the workspace by mistake

Regards

Saeed

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

@fishtruk Are you window selecting the bodies then right click and hide or as @SaeedHamza suggested pressing v? The default behaviour with widow select will be selection of bodies, you can set the selection priority to components on the select menu to allow selecting components.

Mark

[fishtruk]

Mark.

You come thru again.

As I recall I did window select and hide.

You say that hides the BODIES. Seems to me that's an easy way to make a whole lot of unnecessary work. It took me 5 minutes to unhide those bodies.