Showing and Hiding Objects

You can use any of these methods for setting the visibility of objects in the Design window:

• Right-click an object in the Design window and select Hide Others to view only that solid, surface, or curve.
• Right-click anywhere in the Design window and select Show All to make all objects visible.
• Right-click an object in the Structure tree and select Always Visible from the context menu. The object will remain visible if you hide its layer, but this setting has no effect on other visibility commands such as Isolate or hiding its parent component by deselecting its check box it in the Structure tree.
• Right-click a face and select the Face context menu.
  • Hide Face hides the selected faces. Hidden faces allow objects behind them to be selected without using the scroll wheel.
  • Hide Other Faces hides all faces except for the selected faces.
  • Inverse Face Visibility inverts the current visibility state for all faces. Hidden faces (even those hidden By Body) become Visible. Visible faces become hidden.
  • Show All Faces shows all faces, whether they were hidden By Face or By Body.
• Deselect the check box in the Structure tree to hide the object in the Design window. The object icon is displayed in gray. You can also right-click an object in the Design window and select Hide (or select it in the Design window and press Ctrl+H) to turn the visibility of the object off.
• Select the check box next to the object in the Structure tree to set the visibility of the object to the layer visibility. If the layer is hidden, then the object will be hidden. If the layer is visible, then the object will be visible.

If the layer visibility is on, the icon appears normally. If the layer visibility is off, the icon appears like the Solid_LayerHidden icon in the figure above. You cannot work with hidden objects in the Design window.