Create a Hiding Group

You can hide the geometry of selected objects from both the drawing and the model by creating a hiding group of the objects. When you have created a hiding group, you can make it visible and hide it alternately.

Create the first hiding group:

1. Select one or more objects.
2. Right-click to open the context-sensitive menu.
3. Select Advanced > Hide Geometry.
4. Type a name for the hiding group in the text window.

The program will hide the geometry of the selected objects.

Create a new hiding group:

1. Select one or more objects.
2. Right-click to open the context-sensitive menu.
3. Select Advanced > Hide Geometry.
4. Select a question mark (?) from the hiding group list.
5. Type a name for the hiding group in the text window.

The program will hide the geometry of the selected objects.

Add objects to an existing hiding group:

1. Select one or more objects.
2. Right-click to open the context-sensitive menu.
3. Select Advanced > Hide Geometry.
4. Select a group from the list of hiding groups to which you want to add the objects.

Note

• You can create hiding groups which are managed individually but have the same name in drawing-model pairs which are independent from each other. The drawing-model pairs are independent from each other when they have separate drawing and model files.
• You can also hide the objects as follows:
  • Hide all the objects of a required object type, see Hide Objects by Type.
  • Select the objects to be displayed in the model regardless of the object type and hide the rest, see Hide Unselected Objects.
  • Hide the selected objects in the model, see Hide a Selected Object.
  • Hide an object so that its geometry is visible only in the drawing but not in the model, or vice versa. See 2D/3D Presentation.