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Able to select component pattern in drawings

Able to select component pattern in drawings

If I want to hide multiple part inside a component pattern, I need to open every children then remove visibility. Can we just click on the component pattern and do what we want? Thanks

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74321Admin
Advocate

Dont´t know if this is already been suggested.......

In a drawing, I would like the have the option to make a whole pattern invisible.

Until now I have to select the parts within the pattern, which can be laborious.

 

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It would be nice if I could do that easier....

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swalton
Mentor

I usually create a Design View Rep in the assembly file, then display that in the drawing view...

 

 

74321Admin
Advocate

Add the possibility to make patterns/arrangements visible or invisible altogether - instead of unfolding every single element in the model browser and do that individually!

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Anordnungen sollten als Ganzes sichtbar oder unsichtbar geschaltet werden können! Bisher muss man sich im Modellbrowser zu jedem einzelnen Element hangeln und es manuell schalten.

 

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b_ruijter
Advocate

Would clicking "shift" + right mouse button and selecting part select, and than selecting te parts in the model solve your problem?

74321Admin
Advocate

Unfortunately I forgot to mention that I want this to be possible in a drawing, not in an assembly.

 

b_ruijter
Advocate

I tried it, you can activate a part selection filter in a drawing but it looks like there is a bug in there. It does not work.

 

(I never hide stuff in the view on the drawing, always make a view in my model and revere to that view in the drawing. Maybe this is a work around for you too?)

b_ruijter
Advocate

Sorry, in my haste I tried it on a multibody part. And in the drawing envirement there is no "select body" filter. That should be an improvement. 

 

On the other hand, it is possible to press shift and right mouse button to select single parts from a pattern and deselect the visability.

 

You could also right click the part and select "find in browser" to hide the intire patern. Maybe it helps.

Des_Seals
Enthusiast

I would like to have the ability turn on/off visibility of a component pattern in drawings the same way you can in the model. Right now in a drawing you have to expand the pattern in the model tree and select every element in the pattern and toggle visibility, you cant toggle visibility on the pattern itself the way you can in a model.

74321Admin
Advocate
ivanildo.b
Advocate

Need to add!

STEVE_WEST-IR
Explorer

When suppressing, changing the visibility or the view style of parts in the browser it is very time consuming having to expand component patterns then select each individual instance of a part in order to apply the changes to these parts. It would be much easier and quicker if we could select the whole base pattern in order to make these changes to all the parts contained within the pattern. This is especially time consuming when working on drawings and trying to hide these parts on a view or not show them as hidden detail to de-clutter a view.

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74321Admin
Advocate

Maybe this solves your problem. I only found out about this a few weeks ago.

With this you can select parts of assemblies and pattern by just clicking.

 

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74321Admin
Advocate

Okay, forget about it.

You like to selct it in a drawing, not in an assembly. I would like that function, too.

MkEHWD
Collaborator

Yeah that would be time saving

Yijiang.Cai
Autodesk
Status changed to: Future Consideration

Many thanks for posting the idea, and tracked as [INVGEN-70419].

 

@MkEHWD @74321Admin if the component pattern selection supports in the drawing, what downstream workflows you want to do? E.g. turn off the visibility, Select as Edges etc.

What about the context menu command list? Is it the same with the existing behavior when selecting the part element of pattern?

Please share more details with us here.

74321Admin
Advocate

As far as I´m concerned, I just want to turn off the visibility of big patterns without turning off the whole view. In my case it can be a matter of several dozen elements or more. Turn off every single one seperately is annoying, inefficient, time-consuming.

See the picture: 120 elements in this pattern, and I cannot select the whole pattern or even the seperate elements. I have to click on every "+" to turn them off.

 

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MkEHWD
Collaborator

I agree with 74321Admin I just want to turn off/on visibility, transparent, of large patterns.

About the context menu command list, I think it's a better idea to keep the same behavior. I dont see any advantages to have a "Pattern Priority" on my end. I dont know what you think about that @74321Admin

 

I think the best is to be able to select any elements from a component patterns not just the "Component pattern item" ex. Element 1 to 6. The main reason for me is I need to open every childen and like 74321Admin, I have patterns with 10-20-50 elements it's very time consuming. 

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I hope you have your answers @Yijiang.Cai .  If you have any other questions, dont hesitate.

And if any other users have anything to add, feel free to. Thanks

JaSar24
Participant

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There is no visibility button and now I have to hide each part separately, doesn't make sense..

Yijiang.Cai
Autodesk

@STEVE_WEST-IR we provide the select all occurrences command for selection filters, and all the occurrences within the pattern feature will be selected. Please see the image below. Does it make sense to you? Thanks!

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dan_szymanski
Autodesk
Status changed to: Accepted

Accepted idea [INVGEN-70419]. Thanks!

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