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Submitted byAnonymouson06-13-201704:54 AM
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"Show hidden parts"...where is it?!!! Please add it!
Not possible that in 2017 there isn't a really used (and present on ALL other CAD software since many year...), a "show hidden parts" function, to show the hidden parts only clicking on them, choosing only the parts that I want to show.
Search "Solidworks show hidden parts" video if you want to better understand 🙂
What is your end goal here? I don't really understand your workflow. What I mean is, if you have parts hidden in an assembly model, you should be working MINIMALLY in the "Default" ViewRep, if not an explicitly named ViewRep specific to what you're trying to show. ViewReps are typically used to make larger models easier to visualize, as well as handle some of the heavy lifting when it comes to drawings with lots of information. If you have parts hidden in the "Master" ViewRep, then any time you switch out to a different ViewRep and back to "Master" again, it will revert to everything being visible. So make sure that you're not hiding parts in "Master".
Now here's the part I'm confused about: You said "...I want to show up not ALL parts, but only some!!" -- If you're looking to be able to have that satisfying click, for parts you've already hidden (in an assembly, & properly using a ViewRep), to RE-ENABLE their visibility, then you can already do this by right-clicking on any ViewRep (aside from "Master") and clicking "Edit Include Components." This will show all of your hidden components (as translucent) temporarily while you select which ones you'd like to re-include into the ViewRep. When you finalize the function, only the components you've directly chosen will have their visibility re-enabled. When it comes down to it, you're really only able to work one way or the other -- If you're in "Master", no visual modifications will stick. If you're in a named ViewRep, then you must manually affect the component visibility, whether turning visibility on OR off. There really isn't (and has never been) an in-between option (nor would I have any idea what that might look like in the software).
Do you have a YouTube example or a screenshot (from another software package) clarifying what you're trying to do? Otherwise, I have no idea what you're asking Inventor to do for you.
The problem with inventor is that it has not really a no-show feature like on catia or Pro-E. you can use the components layers like captain said but its slow, and really inefficient when working on large assemblies.
"...The problem with inventor is that it has not really a no-show feature like on catia or Pro-E."
Jeremy, I still fail to understand what yourself and Riccardo are referring to with a "no-show" feature of the program. Please screenshot another software package's "no-show" feature so the rest of us can get on-board with what you two are referring to. Because as of this point, pretty much any Inventor power user reading this is currently scratching their head and wondering just what in the hell a "no-show" feature could possibly be. By that moniker, it's completely meaningless to those of us who have been using IV for 10+ years. Help us understand EXACTLY what function is performed (and consequently the behavior that is generated) by activating the feature in a software package that DOES have it, and we should be able to easily draw some parallels to IV.
"I think that it will be easy to add a filter in the browser of Inventor 2018. It has a lot of option, but this there isn't!"
Cgusi, What type of filter are you referring to? Are you saying you'd like to see an additional context menu appear when you click "Edit Include Components" that provides a numbered (or otherwise sorted by iProperty) list of parts that are AVAILABLE to be re-included into the ViewRep? If so, I could see the functionality in that. If that's the case, it would be nice if it was based on the Structured BOM, and indented to match. Then anytime you were looking to re-include parts to a ViewRep, you'd simply need to find the correct part number (or other alternate iProperty, if not using PN), rather than being required to physically find it in the viewing window, regardless of what physical sub-/assembly it's in.
its simply two button on your screen, one is : "show"; the other is "no-show"
when you work normally on an assembly, you are in "show" position, anything that has not been hidded with "hide item" is visible.
when you activate the "no-show button", it instantly change all the overview; to make visible ONLY the hidded items (in other words, non-hidded items are not visible), and the background change of colour to remember that you are in no-show mode
for example on this picture, the designer activate "no show"; the result : the parts (not hidded items) dissapears, meanwhile all hidded items appears : you can see many sketch, construction planes, constructions surfaces, eventually hidded parts.
you can find anything, hide and unhide items very fast, find a sketch to edit ....
Could you please try Inventor 2022.1? We provide the "Select All Invisible Components" from selection filter. All the invisible components will be selected, and you take the downstream workflow on desired.
This topic is still alive in 2024 so here is my solution:
Make new macro with this code:
Sub ShowAllParts() ' Get the active Inventor application Dim invApp As Application Set invApp = ThisApplication
' Get the active document Dim asmDoc As AssemblyDocument Set asmDoc = invApp.ActiveDocument
' Check if the active document is an assembly If asmDoc.DocumentType <> kAssemblyDocumentObject Then MsgBox "Please open an assembly document." Exit Sub End If
' Get the component definition of the assembly Dim compDef As AssemblyComponentDefinition Set compDef = asmDoc.ComponentDefinition
' Call the recursive function to set visibility SetVisibility compDef.Occurrences
' Display a message box MsgBox "All parts and subassemblies are now visible!" End Sub
Sub SetVisibility(occurrences As ComponentOccurrences) Dim i As Integer For i = 1 To occurrences.Count Dim occ As ComponentOccurrence Set occ = occurrences.Item(i)
' Turn on visibility occ.Visible = True
' If the occurrence is a subassembly, call the function recursively If occ.DefinitionDocumentType = kAssemblyDocumentObject Then SetVisibility occ.SubOccurrences End If Next i End Sub
This macro turns on visibility on all parts im the main assembly and all subassemblies. After creating the macro I linked it to a keyboard shortcut so it is easily accessible every time.
Surprised this hasn't been fixed, and also surprised it's such a hard concept to understand. Users want to select objects to hide and also select objects to show.
Selecting "All Invisible Components" does not help if users only want to show one of hundreds of invisible components. Simply inverting visibility NX style) is a simple solution that would be beneficial.
