Outline of Invisible Assembly Components

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to mouse over components in an assembly that have their visibility off and see an outline of where the component is to more easily find the invisible component in the assembly?

[cwhetten]

You can find them in the browser.  Invisible parts will have their icons grayed out.

-cwhetten

[Anonymous]

Yes, but with larger assemblies I don't know which greyed out (invisible) component is which necessarily, and can spend a bit of time turning components off and on to find the component I meant to turn back on.  Do you know of any way to get an outline of them in the assembly when you mouse over them or single click on the in the browser?

[cwhetten · Accepted solution]

You can try toggling the Enabled option instead of using Visibility.  Parts turn transparent so you can see through them and work through them, but you can still see where they are on the model.  Also, when you highlight them in the browser, they light up in the graphics window.

The disadvantage: you can't make use of the View Reps functionality with Enabled/Disabled status (as far as I am aware).

-cwhetten

[cwhetten]

Edit on the above post:  I was wrong.  Design view reps can control the Enabled / Not Enabled status of parts.  I really should use the Enabled status more often, since it could really come in handy.

-cwhetten

[Anonymous]

Thank you... I will try out the Enable instead.

I'm not sure why the visible parts in the assembly highlight but the invisible ones don't...?  Other programs have that functionality.  Another one for the wish list I suppose.

[pierinisimona79]

Dear Sirs, 

can anyone told me how can I toggle enable parts please?

Thank you

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Go to the Model Browser and find the disabled component instances (highlighted in green). Right-click -> check "Enabled."

Many thanks!

[pierinisimona79]

Thank you Jonhnson, I get it. I have an other question. If I open a drawing that is not made by me  how can I know if there are some invisible components? Is there a function that allow me to see the list of invisible parts only?

Thank you very much 

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Are you talking about an iam file or an idw/dwg file? In an assembly, you may use Select tool to find those invisible occurrences -> Select all invisible occurrences.

In the idw/dwg, you may create a regular PartsList (all components are included regardless of visibility). Then create another PartsList with Design View Rep filter enabled (invisible component instances will be removed from the PartsList. Compare the two PartsLists.

Many thanks!

[pierinisimona79]

Hi John, I get it. I really Thank you very much.