hide entity

[Columbo™]

Can someone explain how "screen", "hide entity" works. I thought that after clickin "hide entity" then click a line that line should hide. It seems to work in reverse or am I not understanding this the right way.

 

[Guest]

Blanking and hiding entities

The Screen menu provides options you use to temporarily remove and restore selected entities in the graphics window display.

 

 

Blank Entity: Removes selected entities, on any level, reducing the complexity of the screen display.

 

 

Unblank Entity: Available only if blanked entities exist in the file. Restores all previously blanked entities.

 

 

Hide Entity: Removes unselected entities, allowing you to focus on a small amount of geometry. If hidden entities exist in the file, this function "unhides" them.

 

 

Hide more entities: Available only if hidden entities exist in the file. Allows you to select additional entities from the current display and remove unselected entities.

 

 

Unhide some entities: Available only if hidden entities exist in the file. Displays only the entities that are hidden and allows you to select additional entities to display.

 

 

There are important differences between the Blank and Hide functions:

 

With Hide, you select the entities that will remain in the graphics window; all unselected entities are removed. With Blank, you select only the entities to remove.

 

You can save blanked entities; hidden entities are not saved.

 

Choose Hide to remove many entities from the display, or to quickly restore hidden entities.

 

Choose Blank to selectively remove and restore a limited number of entities from the display.

[Columbo™]

Thanks again del

 

[Cobra Driver]

Word to the wise-people working with Solid Works files: DON'T BLANK ANYTHING! When you go to unblank it you may never find it. You're much better off putting things on different levels.

[Columbo™]

I know in MC the blank gets put on that level so they are easy to find

 

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

Colombu.It sctually works two ways.

I prefer to preselect amd I use old shortcuts like

Alt+E ,Alt + and Alt -