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Showing hidden metric bodies in imperial assemblies

Showing hidden metric bodies in imperial assemblies

Showing hidden metric bodies in imperial assemblies

(OP)
Just wanted to say these forums are great and extremely helpful. Please forgive me if this topic has already been covered.

Summary
I am having difficulty showing hidden bodies in a metric part when viewed from it's imperial assembly.

I have a metric part in an imperial assembly. The metric part (actually an assembly of metric parts) is from our customer. Some of these metric parts have multiple solid bodies and sometimes it is useful to go "selection filter" --> "solid body" and select and "hide" one or more of them. I usually then "undo" or simply not save the modification. However, last time I did this I saved the whole thing. Part and assembly. So now when I re-open the assembly the solid body stays hidden. Doing "show" on the part doesn't seem to work. So next I try "make work part" but I get "component is of different units than the display part". Next I try "make displayed part" and do "show" on the solid body. It shows up in the part, but not in my assembly. The solid body is in the correct reference set. Is there any way around this?

I've noticed this ever since we changed from NX7.5 to NX8.5 - where the assembly show/hide intent takes precedence over the reference set. Is this working as intended?

Running NX8.5 on windows 7 64 bit

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.


The tool and target do not form a complete intersection.

RE: Showing hidden metric bodies in imperial assemblies

(OP)
OK. Answering my own question:

Doing a "show all" in the show/hide menu (ctrl+w) turns on everything in the reference set. But I think the larger question still remains: Why doesn't "show" reveal everything in the part's activated reference set? Seems to me that this makes reference sets less powerful.

Thanks for reading

The tool and target do not form a complete intersection.

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