CATIA V5 hide/show to view only parts? 3

[RockyAire]

Is there a way in the no-show (hide/show) section of CATIA V5 to only see Solids (Products or parts), or to see just Items I want to see?
Unfortunately CATIA V5 is Tree based instead of Graphical based like CATIA V4. So if something gets no-showed, regardless if it was a mistake or someone else's model. It is impossible to pull it back. I have a large model in which I know where the part should be, but have no idea what it is called on the tree (which is over 20 plus levels deep 100 times over). Upon opening the no-show (hide/show) all I see is a spaghetti explosion (Lines, planes, surfaces, text, Sketch, etc, etc, etc of every part's working geometry. I could not pick a solid (to even find it in the tree) even if I could see even a part of it, and no amount of zooming is going to help. Even on a simple model... surfaces usually cover the parts so completely it cannot be seen.

This would be the perfect place to use layers, if anyone had put them there in the first place (if only CATIA V5 had been programed a way to use them efficiently). Yes... there is a good reason to have layers.

So, is there a way to layer or filter or sub-no-show or turn off items so all is left showing... is just top level items in the no-show view?

The picture attached is already 3 level's deep. Can you see the solids?

 

[drewmumaw]

@RockyAire
Did you attach the picture?

In the model, if you know where the part should be, you can click "swap visible space" to see all the hidden items and then hold the alt key when you left click and CATIA V5 will give you a list on screen of every item "layered" at that point of selection. You can then select it from the list.

Drew Mumaw

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[itsmyjob]

can't even see the attached picture !

I feel your pain as I love layer & Filter... but DS is not helping much here.

You might be lucky: go inside a CATPart and activate the "Onlu Current Body" function this will filter all none active other bodies from all parts.

But you might not be lucky:

what you search is not in current body​

you work with hybrid solid ​

some large surface still visible as they are in current body​

...

Other stuff that might help:

"Customized View Parameter" the last option in the shading.. you can remove wire, axis, points... but not surface ! (at least in R24)

From top assembly level search for Geometrical set and select them and put them on layer 1 then create filter ! But you need to have option in General / Display / Layer Filter set to current filter on all document. => Be aware that this will not be available in V6 as filter can not be applied at product level. I open SR and got "work as designed" answer.

Eric N.
indocti discant et ament meminisse periti ​

 

[itsmyjob]

I could not have the "hold the [kbd]ALT[/kbd]" to work but I can have the default [kbd]up arrow[/kbd] or [kbd]down arrow[/kbd] to open pre-selection function

Eric N.
indocti discant et ament meminisse periti ​

 

[lardman363]

Use the search function to hide what you don't want to see:
[ol 1]
[li]Press ctrl+F on the keyboard[/li]
[li]Select the workbench and type of feature you want to find and hide[/li]
[li]Select where you want to search (everywhere, in selection, etc.)[/li]
[li]Press the search and select button (binoculars with pointer)[/li]
[li]All features of that type will be selected[/li]
[li]Press the hide/show button[/li]
[/ol]