Is there a way to hide other sketches when you're editing a single sketch?

Is there a way to hide other sketches when you're editing a single sketch?

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Is there a way to hide other sketches when you're editing a single sketch?

Anonymous
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Whenever I start a new sketch on a complex part, my previous sketches are all visible. This causes my current sketch geometry to snap to it and it's just way less tidy. Is there an option to disable this?

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Anonymous
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Turn the visibility off.

 

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Binga
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Have you tried this:

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RMB in the sketch that you want to turn off the visibility!



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Binga
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You can also try to turn off the visibility of all sketches in the tab View > Visibility > 2D Sketches, or simply pressing F10:

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Curtis_Waguespack
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@Binga wrote:

You can also try to turn off the visibility of all sketches in the tab View > Visibility > 2D Sketches, or simply pressing F10:

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Hi Binga,

 

It's very likely the View > Visibility filter is what is causing the issue. I typically do not recommend using this tool (much at all, but particularly at the part level).

 

Right-clicking and turning off the Visibility should solve the issue.

 

 

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

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Anonymous
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All of the replies so far are either to individually deselect "visibility" from each sketch or to press F10.

 

If I have lots of sketches It is very tedious to deselect the visibility of each one individually. Also, F10 only works when you're not in a sketch environment.

Is there some tool to only show the sketch you're working on?

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Curtis_Waguespack
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@Anonymous wrote:

All of the replies so far are either to individually deselect "visibility" from each sketch or to press F10.

 

If I have lots of sketches It is very tedious to deselect the visibility of each one individually. Also, F10 only works when you're not in a sketch environment.

Is there some tool to only show the sketch you're working on?


Hi amarciniakTF6LQ,

 

It's a case of "pay me now, or may me later".

 

If you didn't right click and turn off the sketches when you were done with them, you will have this issue.

 

Using the View filter filters them, but as you've seen other tools toggle the filter off, and they all come back on.

 

To fix the issue you find yourself in at that moment, you can create an illogic rule and paste in this code and run it, and it will go through and turn off each sketch (as if you right clicked them).

 

In the future, do yourself a favor and right click the sketches and turn them off when you're done. Smiley Wink

 

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

 

 

'set document 
oDoc = ThisDoc.Document

'set sketch visibility
For Each oSketch In oDoc.ComponentDefinition​.Sketches
oSketch.Visible = False
Next

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PhetaDesignLink
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ok the snarky remarks like "do yourself a favor and turn off the sketch when your done doesn't help" this guy asked a legitimate question .... it's irritating that when one is in a sketch one would need to leave that environment to filter out 2d sketches which, btw also turns off the visibility of the sketch one wants to see. WTF are you all unable to see this guys issue and the reason it's annoying or do you just like to say **** like that to piss people off? it's like going to the doctor and telling him something hurts when you do a particular thing and the doctor responding with "don't do that then" would that be the type of advice you want from an expert? 


@Curtis_Waguespack wrote:

@Anonymous wrote:

All of the replies so far are either to individually deselect "visibility" from each sketch or to press F10.

 

If I have lots of sketches It is very tedious to deselect the visibility of each one individually. Also, F10 only works when you're not in a sketch environment.

Is there some tool to only show the sketch you're working on?


Hi amarciniakTF6LQ,

 

It's a case of "pay me now, or may me later".

 

If you didn't right click and turn off the sketches when you were done with them, you will have this issue.

 

Using the View filter filters them, but as you've seen other tools toggle the filter off, and they all come back on.

 

To fix the issue you find yourself in at that moment, you can create an illogic rule and paste in this code and run it, and it will go through and turn off each sketch (as if you right clicked them).

 

In the future, do yourself a favor and right click the sketches and turn them off when you're done. Smiley Wink

 

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

 

 

'set document 
oDoc = ThisDoc.Document

'set sketch visibility
For Each oSketch In oDoc.ComponentDefinition​.Sketches
oSketch.Visible = False
Next


@Curtis_Waguespack wrote:

@Anonymous wrote:

All of the replies so far are either to individually deselect "visibility" from each sketch or to press F10.

 

If I have lots of sketches It is very tedious to deselect the visibility of each one individually. Also, F10 only works when you're not in a sketch environment.

Is there some tool to only show the sketch you're working on?


Hi amarciniakTF6LQ,

 

It's a case of "pay me now, or may me later".

 

If you didn't right click and turn off the sketches when you were done with them, you will have this issue.

 

Using the View filter filters them, but as you've seen other tools toggle the filter off, and they all come back on.

 

To fix the issue you find yourself in at that moment, you can create an illogic rule and paste in this code and run it, and it will go through and turn off each sketch (as if you right clicked them).

 

In the future, do yourself a favor and right click the sketches and turn them off when you're done. Smiley Wink

 

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

 

 

'set document 
oDoc = ThisDoc.Document

'set sketch visibility
For Each oSketch In oDoc.ComponentDefinition​.Sketches
oSketch.Visible = False
Next

 

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PhetaDesignLink
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Participant

 

THE ANSWER IS "NO!" YOU CANNOT TURN OFF ALL OTHER SKETCHES WHILE YOUR IN A SKETCH SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIG THROUGH, HUNT AND PICK AMONGST ALL YOUR OTHER SELECTABLE BUT NON INTERACTIVE SKETCH LINES. THE ANSWER IS NO YOU CANNOT SIMPLY TURN OFF ALL THE OTHER SKETCHES SO THAT YOU CAN EASILY SELECT THE SKETCH LINE OF THE SKETCH YOUR WORKING ON WITHOUT SELECTING ALL THE OTHER SKETCHES THAT ARE LAYERED IN THE SAME RELATIVE POSITION. NO YOU CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT LEAVING THE SKETCH AND NO THE ANSWER IS NOT TO FILTER OUT 2D SKETCHES BECAUSE THAT FILTER ALSO TURNS OFF THE SKETCH YOU WANT TO EDIT... SO SORRY AND I'M SORRY THAT THIS COMMUNITY IS FULL OF SOCIOPATHIC INTROVERTS WHO CANNOT GLEAN YOUR PROBLEM FROM YOUR QUESTION THEY SIMPLY WANT TO BE RIGHT AND RESPOND SNARKILY .... I'M SORRY BUT .... NO YOU CANT. NOW THIS IS SOLVED. 

This thread is marked as solved but it is not solved at all... you simply responded with an answer he wasn't looking for and he got tired of trying to explain what intelligent people who are modelers should be able to glean through understanding and inference.  I read through all the comments and absolutely none of you answered this mans question correctly. do you live in a cave and you understand why he's asking this question and then answer intelligently? ... apparently not.

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JDMather
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@Anonymous wrote:

…. This causes my current sketch geometry to snap to it and it's just way less tidy. Is there an option to disable this?


Tools>Application Options>Sketch tab unselect the Autoproject options (except for the part origin - I leave that one on).

 

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Curtis_Waguespack
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@PhetaDesignLink wrote:

ok the snarky remarks like "do yourself a favor and turn off the sketch when your done doesn't help" this guy asked a legitimate question .... it's irritating that when one is in a sketch one would need to leave that environment to filter out 2d sketches which, btw also turns off the visibility of the sketch one wants to see. WTF are you all unable to see this guys issue and the reason it's annoying or do you just like to say **** like that to piss people off? it's like going to the doctor and telling him something hurts when you do a particular thing and the doctor responding with "don't do that then" would that be the type of advice you want from an expert? 


 

 

Hi @PhetaDesignLink ,

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

I assure you my remarks were not intended to be "snarky", and I'm sorry that you interpreted them that way, but judging from the tone of your reply I can't help thinking that you might be projecting a bit. Smiley Wink

 

Sorry that my past attempts to assist another was unsatisfactory, maybe I'll get lucky and do better next time. (<--- see that right there is a bit snarky Smiley Wink)

 

Again, welcome to the forum,

Curtis

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Curtis_Waguespack
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@PhetaDesignLink wrote:

 

....  I'M SORRY THAT THIS COMMUNITY IS FULL OF SOCIOPATHIC INTROVERTS ....


 

 

lol Smiley Happy ... 

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johnsonshiue
Community Manager
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Hi Phillip,

 

Based on your reply, you seem to have a lot of complaints about Inventor. For this particular issue, I think I know where the problem is. It indeed tricky to get the desirable behavior here. A few things. When you edit a sketch, Inventor rolls back the model to when the sketch was created. So, any dependent sketches and features should be invisible (or it will be a bug). But, parent sketches may be visible depending on how the parent sketches are leveraged.

If the editing sketch has direct or indirect dependency on the parent sketches, such parent sketches will be visible to show the source. As you can see, not all sketches can be made invisible on you edit a sketch. Certainly, there might be bugs leading to confusing behaviors. I am not aware of an option or a rule to change these behaviors.

BTW, please avoid typing all-cap letters in your posting. It looks as if you are yelling at people. Also, the forum runs on mutual respect. It goes both ways. We are here to help resolve some of your Inventor issues, not your personal issues.

Many thanks!



Johnson Shiue (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com)
Software Test Engineer