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Ketan_Lalcheta2-Explorer
2-Explorer
July 14, 2017
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How to hide Revolve feature in Part

Hello

 

In part file, I made revolve feature as hidden. Still same is visible. Any thought?

 

Regards

Ketan 

StephenW
StephenWAnswer
23-Emerald III
July 17, 2017

In a part, you can hide ALL the solid geometry using a layer.

In an assembly, you can hide assembly components in layers.

In general, I would say both are "poor practice" but their are likely use cases for some users.

 

So if you are not able to check in the part with suppressed features, why are you trying to find a work-around?

Maybe their needs to be exceptions to that rule?

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StephenW
StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
July 14, 2017

Are you refering to the right click HIDE command? If so, you can not hide solid geometry in that method.

You may want to try using part simplified reps for this application.

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Ketan_Lalcheta2-ExplorerAuthor
2-Explorer
July 14, 2017

Yes. Right Click --> Hide. if it's not working, It should not have the functionality available like this.Correct?

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psobejko1-Visitor
1-Visitor
July 14, 2017

Well, the "Hide" command should be there, because it does do something - namely, it hides any internal datums that belong to the feature.

 

I think you need to use simplified rep to accomplish your goal.

 

One other point to mention is that you can hide the entire solid model by putting the "SolidGeom" object on a layer and then hiding this layer.

 

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KenFarley
KenFarley21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
July 14, 2017

Hiding does not affect solid geometry features. To make them "go away" you need to suppress them. Where I've found hiding of features useful is if I've mirrored the full model. Hiding the mirrored feature will make the datum planes, surfaces and other included geometry which can make the display a bit confusing.

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Ketan_Lalcheta2-ExplorerAuthor
2-Explorer
July 14, 2017

Supress will do desired work, but it supresses dependant also. Layer hiding also did not support hiding of Revolve. Any other way to do so except supress and simp Rep?

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StephenW
StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
July 14, 2017

Hide is a special function of layering so they mostly act the same. Hide command can't be used to hide solid geometry but it does have usage as Ken suggested.

 

Family tables is the only other option. I would suggest using simplified reps for parts. I use them all the time to document process on drawings when I don't* want or need a separate part model for that process.

 

*Edit: added the missing don't

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