can't hide hidden edges in section view
can't hide hidden edges in section view
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System: Using SW2000, windows 2000 service pack 2, Video card is Guillemot's Xentor 32 (nvidia ultra TNT2), 512 MB RAM
Question: In my drawing I have a front view (think of a simple cylinder for simplicity) and a section view (the section is a side view of the cylinder cut vertically right through the center). In the section view I have "hidden in gray" turned ON in order to see a particular hidden thermocouple hole location, which I need to be on my printout. However, there are other hidden bolt hole edges in this section view that I would like to hide or turn off. When I right click on one of these hidden bolt hole edges and hit the option "hide edge" it disappears temporarily only to show up (be visible) again when I zoom in or out. If I again right click on that same (visible) hidden bolt hole edge I only get the option to "show edge" when it is still clearly visible (shows up on printouts as well)! Note I have the "select hidden entities" option turned on otherwise I wouldn't be able to select these hidden edges in the first place. Note this same type of problem appears with other parts/assemblies in my drawing views as well so it can't be limited to just this particular model. I have wondered if this is a video card issue - maybe the card does not properly recognize these lines? I have also wondered if it has something to do with the fact that these hidden line edges are from a cylindrical cut feature in the model and maybe SW2000 has problems working with these kinds of edges? Any help would be greatly appreciated - this problem forces me to continue to use 2D AutoCAD instead of 3D Solidworks to do many of my designs - Arrghhh!!!
Question: In my drawing I have a front view (think of a simple cylinder for simplicity) and a section view (the section is a side view of the cylinder cut vertically right through the center). In the section view I have "hidden in gray" turned ON in order to see a particular hidden thermocouple hole location, which I need to be on my printout. However, there are other hidden bolt hole edges in this section view that I would like to hide or turn off. When I right click on one of these hidden bolt hole edges and hit the option "hide edge" it disappears temporarily only to show up (be visible) again when I zoom in or out. If I again right click on that same (visible) hidden bolt hole edge I only get the option to "show edge" when it is still clearly visible (shows up on printouts as well)! Note I have the "select hidden entities" option turned on otherwise I wouldn't be able to select these hidden edges in the first place. Note this same type of problem appears with other parts/assemblies in my drawing views as well so it can't be limited to just this particular model. I have wondered if this is a video card issue - maybe the card does not properly recognize these lines? I have also wondered if it has something to do with the fact that these hidden line edges are from a cylindrical cut feature in the model and maybe SW2000 has problems working with these kinds of edges? Any help would be greatly appreciated - this problem forces me to continue to use 2D AutoCAD instead of 3D Solidworks to do many of my designs - Arrghhh!!!






RE: can't hide hidden edges in section view
But you did say that clicked on them a 2nd time, and you only had the option to Show, so there is only 1 bolt hole. What you can try to do is Hide all hidden lines, then only select the thermocouple edges and make them Visible.
Not sure about your video card, it might be the cause. To make sure it is, you could email me your part or a similar part and I could test it on my machine.
rreynolds@riconcorp.com
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RE: can't hide hidden edges in section view
Thanks.
Nobu
RE: can't hide hidden edges in section view
I do see the thermocouple hole only, and do not see any other horizontal hidden lines in your section view.
In the views at the top (outside the drawing border) I am able to hide all the hidden lines from the vircular patterned holes, keeping only the hidden lines of the thermocouple.
I'm thinking it might be your video card, but really hard to say since I am using a different version of SW to view your file.
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RE: can't hide hidden edges in section view
We had a file that was giving us a similar problem. We could not hide a edge that was behind the edge that we just hid. The only option when right clicking was show the edge that we just hid.
Right-click on the edge(the one that the only option is to show) and select other and left click for yes. Now hold down you cntrl-key and right-click on the edge at the same time. The pull-down will have a show edge and a hide edge in it. Select the hide edge. Make sure you do a redraw to see the results. Same goes for showing them both. Right-click on the hidden edge and pick show. Rick click on the edge again and pick select other and left click for yes. Hold down your ctrl-key and right click on the edge you will see the show and hide, select the show and now both edges are shown.
Hope this works for you.
BBJT CSWP
RE: can't hide hidden edges in section view
RE: can't hide hidden edges in section view
Happy modeling
BBJT CSWP
RE: can't hide hidden edges in section view
I pulled up the file that we were having an issue with, in SW2001Plus, and had no problem hiding the edges that were giving us a problem in SW2000. It looks like it was a bug that was fixed.
This is probably why, when MadMango pulled up your file in SW2001Plus, he did not see the issue.
I guess this just goes to show how important it is to keep up with the times. I am starting to think that SolidWorks should come out with new releases once a year instead of every 6 months. A lot of the enhancements could be Super Service Packs. It is really hard for a large company with a large user, customer, and vendor base to keep up with the new releases. If the software was backward compatible it would be a whole different ball game.
BBJT CSWP