Hide/Show Question 2

[leeave96]

Back in my old days of Unigraphics, there was a command similar to SW's hide and show commands - except that all items that were hidden, at the click of a button, would be shown and all items that were previously visible were hidden. Sort of a reverse hide/show command. In UG, I believe it was called "reverse blank all."

Is there a simple way (via a button click) to toggle in mass back and forth between items visible and those hidden within an assembly?

Thanks!
Bill

 

[TheTick]

No such critter in SW. Sorry.

 

[smcadman]

I have seen a "show all" macro somewhere, maybe there is an "invert show/hide" macro or one can be modified to do this.

Flores

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

RMB on a component(s) in the FM and select Invert Selection, then Edit > Show (or Hide) > All Display States

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Ooops ... that should have been Edit > Show (or Hide) > Current Display State[/b]

Also, are you familiar with the Isolate function?

 

[carlbud]

There is some of this functionality in SW. If you have some items hidden in an assembly you can RMB on the assembly in the feature manager tree and select Show with Dependents. This will show all items in that assembly. This works on the top level assembly as well as subassemblies.
The context toolbars have a hide or show components button when used in the feature manager tree that will hide all or show all of the components within the assembly selected. This along with show with dependents can be useful for hiding multiple entities.

Carl
Dell M70
Solidworks 2008 3.0

 

[Eltron]

2008 also has the Isolate command which is handy.

Dan

http://www.eltronresearch.com

 

[JMarv]

This won't do exactly what you want, but I would suggest you try Lenny's ComponentStateSwitcher macro. It's a simple interface that allows you to easily change the hide/show visibility and suppress/resolve state of components in an assembly.

Joe
SW Office 2006 SP5.1
P4 3.0Ghz 1GB
ATI FireGL X1

 

[rwdesigner]

In Solidworks 2008 there is a feature that is exactly what reverse blank all is in UG. Under the assembly tool bar there is an icon called show hidden components or it can be accessed by right clicking into space in the graphics area.

Rick
SW2008 sp 3.0