CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
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How do you hide elements such as planes, points, curves, axis, general axis and constraints of the parent assembly in one go.
Say your parent assy contains 20 sub assemblies and withing them 125 + parts.
If you go to say the part you can go to tool, hide and select all planes, points etc.
Unfortuanatley I need a method to hide all such elements from the parent assembly not the individual parts as there is 125+ parts here.
Unfortunatley the search tool doesn't seem to do the job either as the entities selected will hide the part too ?
Any one have any ideas ?
Cheers
Steve
Say your parent assy contains 20 sub assemblies and withing them 125 + parts.
If you go to say the part you can go to tool, hide and select all planes, points etc.
Unfortuanatley I need a method to hide all such elements from the parent assembly not the individual parts as there is 125+ parts here.
Unfortunatley the search tool doesn't seem to do the job either as the entities selected will hide the part too ?
Any one have any ideas ?
Cheers
Steve





RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
About the assembly constraints there is a setting in tools options-> general-> parameters and measure-> "Constaint and Dimension" tab, there you will find Constraint Display. Now you can set how you want.
RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
I have been trying to set groups in the search tool to do it that way but its quite slow.
Cheers
Steve
RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
Gary.
RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
Now when you hit search the favorite icon becomes active. Add it to your favorites, I imagine it would be faster to search through a large assembly with the internal search function.
Regards,
Derek
RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
Another hint is if you save it to your favorites with a simple name you can use the Power Input Field to invoke it.
For example I have a favorite that hides all visible planes and axis systems. This is called VAP in my favorites list. In my PIF (Note you need a P2 or P3 configuration for it to show up, not available with a P1) I type in f:VAP and then hit the hide/show icon.
Jim
RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
Most points curves planes etc are required for constraining purposes particularly if some components came from v4. So if you have hidden everything then change something in the assembly you need to go back to turn the hidden elements on again so you have got something to attach your constraints too.
When you have large assemblies this is important.
RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
Hope this helps. This is how I keep track of my geometry.
Mybe someone has a better way I too can learn from.
RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
Make a CATvbs/macro and add this:
Sub CATMain()
Set productDocument1 = CATIA.ActiveDocument
Set selection1 = productDocument1.Selection
selection1.Search "(CATPrtSearch.AxisSystem.Visibility=Visible + (CATPrtSearch.Surface.Visibility=Visible + (CATPrtSearch.Wireframe.Visibility=Visible + CATPrtSearch.Sketch.Visibility=Visible))),all"
Set VisPropSet1 = Selection1.VisProperties
VisPropSet1.SetShow catVisPropertyNoShowAttr
End Sub
RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
I tried this macro running on my assembly..worked but the one of the main part became invisible can u check ur macros again for me plz..
thanx
***nathalia
RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
Why don't you use the search feature? Edit-Search-Advanced....
Choose the workbench-type-attribute (if neccessary).
Search, select, hide...Just an example - for axis - Part design-axis-search-select-hide...
Regards
Fernando
RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
Oops, I just see the whole thread. It was mentioned what I wrote before. For v4 models you can use DMU workbench, Tools, CATIA v4 layer filters.....
Regards
Fernando
RE: CATIA V5 HIDE ELEMENTS SUCH AS PLANES POINTS CURVES OF PARENT ASSY IN
The script turns everything non solid to hide, so what is your main part based on (surface or solids)??