Assembly/Part Half-Section highlighting

[wrw0007]

I was browsing another forum and came upon a question that I never really thought about myself as it doesn't posee any issues for me. He is a new user coming from another program and I pointed him towards this forum.

When you section an assembly or part you are left with a display of (usually) half of that part. If you hover over it, you see the prehighlight that shows the entire part, half as active and half as "inactive" or as a "ghost" as he put it.

I say "inactive" in quotes because the software doesn't see this as an inactive part.

His question was whether this "ghost" could be toggled on or off.

Digging through the (Tools>Application Options>Display) and similar places I could not find an option for this. The closest I found was (Tools>Application Options>Color>Disable PreHighlight). This is an easy cut and dry workaround for when you need to present a clean model to a client or coworker, but is there a formal solution for this? I have used other programs that have this setting, but they also handle assembly sections in a different fashion.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideastation/half-quarter-section-view/idi-p/5576999

[wrw0007]

That's not what we are trying to achieve, but I appreciate the response and reference.

[Anonymous]

I can't say I really understand the problem.

[wrw0007]

No problem.

I have attached 2 images showing a pipe assembly that has been half sectioned.

The first image shows the assembly without hovering over the pipe.

The second image shows the assembly while I am hovering over the pipe.

When hovering over it, the silhouette of the removed (graphically) pipe shows up. (circled in red)

Is there a setting to remove that silhouette?

[Anonymous]

Have you tried unchecking this?

[wrw0007]

I have. And it almost works. But leaves the outline of the part.

[admaiora]

Hi Wrw,

sorry, you can't do it.

[wrw0007]

So it seems. Not a big deal. it doesn't impede workflow... Maybe an idea for the idea station for future versions?

[Anonymous]

Do you have enable PreHighlight uncheck also.

I have both unchecked and I get no highlight at all unless I click on the part.

I have been working in an assembly, I just tried this in a part file, and it does not seem to work the same.

[wrw0007]

As mentioned in the original post, I have done this. It does work as a workaround, but this isn't section specific and disables the highlighting of every part all the time. Not only when a section occurs.

For another route of action, is there a way to set up a hotkey/key combonation to toggle those two options? This would be a much more viable solution.

Thank you for the responses.

[Anonymous]

I have deselected both "enable prehighlight" and "enable enanced highlighting" and am still getting highlight on hover.  I only want it to highlight if I select it.

I am trying to constrain two parts and can't see the edges of what I need because the highlight is too dark, not to mention incredibly annoying.

Please tell me how to shut it off.  I am working on 2011.

[William.LamJZ983]

Unchecking both of those "enable"s did the trick. Thank you! That resolved the very frustrating feature.