Isolate components needs to be independent.

[lkrenzler]

To make isolate components useful, it really needs to be more independent of other actions.  IMO it should not effect the view representation since it is more of a modeling aid and you typically don't want to keep the settings. The isolate invisibility should be completely seperate and always reversable without effecting any permanant view reps.

The "undo isolation" needs to be more robust.  At least more than one step.  For example if I isolate a few components, then isolate a couple of those again, I cannot undo that with "undo isolate".  It's a real pain to go back an manually turn on visibility for hundreds of parts.

It's an essential tool but really needs to be completely independent of other visibility settings.

[lkrenzler]

Forgot to mention that the regular "undo" should have no effect on the isolate components command since we have an "undo isolate".

[karthur1]

Totally agree !  Don't you just love it when you forget to "Undo Isolate" and it messes up the view rep?  If the particular view rep is associative in a idw view and that is now hosed.  Takes a while to get it straighten out again, and then you are not really sure you have it right.

[karthur1]

Wish I could vote again for this.  There are so many times that I need to see just a few parts in an assembly.  But If I use the "Isolate" and there are subassemblies there that have Design VR associated to them, this will be lost when the "un-Isolate" is done.  Such a PITA and makes the Isolate almost useless.

[Calvin.hendriks]

I don't understand why the representation of sub-assemblies and parts should be affected by using the isolate command. The way that SolidWorks does it is infinitely more useful than how the isolate command behavior works in Inventor. I basically can't use it because it creates more problems to reset the representations of all of the parts than the benefit of being able to isolate two or three components in an assembly.