Using visibility settings and parameters to hide certain parts of a family

[joe_tuckerZM682]

I have set up a family for an oven so that I can switch the door hinge from RHS to LHS using visible graphics parameters and it works fine. I am now trying to add another so that all of the current family turns off so that a square box (3d) to show the outline of the oven is shown by itself instead.

Not sure if this is possible or not but I am struggling to be able to turn off the rest of the ovens view when selecting the tick box to hide the Outline family?

[Ryan_GormanKT36T]

There are several ways possible. 

For the example you are showing I think you would want to use Visibility settings:

Select the geometry, and click Modify | <Element> tab | Model  panel | (Visibility Settings).

In the Family Element Visibility Settings dialog, select the views in which you want the geometry to display:

• Plan/RCP
• Front/Back
• Left/Right
  And the detail levels at which you want the geometry to display:
• Coarse
• Medium
• Fine
  You may also need to setup visibility parameters.

More info here:

Help | Set Family Geometry Visibility | Autodesk

[TripleM-Dev.net]

If it's a option you want in a project view (the simple 3D box) and another project view the detailled info needs to be seen you have basically 2 options

option 1:

 use detail level for the elements, the Simple 3D box in Coarse and Medium and then the detailled one in Fine.

 trouble with this is that the whole view or whole category has to be at this detaillevel, so could disrupt other families of  that category

option 2: (my go to)

 Use subcategories, per view a subcategory can be turned off or on

 Place the Simple 3D box in "00_reservation_volume" and the detailled one in "00_appliance_detailled"

 Use generic names so they can be used for multiple families, and so you don't end up with 100s of these subcategories

 advantage of this you can set it's linetype to whatevet you need, like the simple box as dashed and the detailled as darkgrey, improving readability of drawings

If detailled level is only needed in elevation views you could go with only showing it in front/back/left/right....and not in 3D. as @Ryan_GormanKT36T suggests

Using visibility parameters changes the actual appearance of the family and will be displayed the same in each view.

- Michel