Why can't I control visibility of items in a linked design?

[Anonymous]

I'm rather surprised I can't control visibility of objects from a linked design in my design.  They seem like they should be a property of the new document, and I should be able to control that even though the source document is effectively read-only.

My use case is I want to link the design, and I'm primarily doing it for the sketches to leverage as guides / templates in my new design.  However, if the sketches are hidden in the original I can't show them.  Or, if there are multiple bodies obscuring the sketches, I can't hide them to better work with the sketches.

[SaeedHamza]

Hi,

2 choices here, one is to break the link and you will be able to edit the inserted component as you like, and the second is to open the imported design ( original ) and show/hide or edit whatever you want and then update the imported component

Regards

[jeff_strater]

Hi @Anonymous,

Since you asked "why", I can elaborate a bit.  The short answer is:  it's on our list to fix this, but it's not there yet.  The reasons are pretty implementation-specific, but the crux is that changing the visibility of things like sketches, bodies, etc are considered edits to the design.  So, if I turn off body 1 in a design, every linked usage of that design will not show that body.  We did, however, implement visibility overrides at the component level in the top-level design, which is why you can change whole components' visibility.  The task for us now is to extend that override system to include body, sketch, workplane, etc visibility in the top level.

sorry for the inconvenience at this point - we realize this would be good to have - we didn't do this to intentionally limit that capability, it is just a question of priorities.  Component visibility was higher priority at the time, so we did that first.

Jeff

[Anonymous]

I hope Autodesk will make time to implement this feature. In my workflow (use sketches & construction items as guides for the assembly), the current restriction adds tons of going back and forth, save, reload, align / join(t), go back to the component to undo everything in order to remove the clutter in my assembly. That is a laborious workaround that could easily be done in one two steps show/hide in the assembly design.

From a developer perspective I (believe I) understand the implications of implementing this, nevertheless from a user perspective this is very close to the top of my wishlist.

[forgejax]

3 years have passed, is this still on the to-do list?

[gautham_kattethota]

Hello @forgejax @Anonymous @Anonymous 

We are happy to inform you that we are currently working on this functionality and will be available in a Fusion update not too far in the future.  With that you should be able to change the visibility of entities in linked components without going into Edit-In-Place or the more tedious way of opening the linked component in its own tab to toggle visibility.

Regards,

Gautham