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pimm15-Moonstone
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November 21, 2016
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How do you hide construction lines in drawing

  • November 21, 2016
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I need to have construction lines to get intersections and dimension placements on a drawing but I can't seem to find how this is hidden.

I do however have a few solid lines and arcs that I would want displayed on the drawing.

Is there a way to filter by construction entities and blank these on a drawing?


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Best answer by MartinHanak

Hi,

you published picture of your drawing. Unfortunately I do not understand how construction lines were created. Are they draft entities created in the drawing ? If this is true, then hiding them using layer is the only way I know.

MH

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
November 21, 2016

Hi,

can you upload some example data and pictures showing what you want to hide ?

MH

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pimm15-MoonstoneAuthor
15-Moonstone
November 21, 2016

Martin

Here is a view of the type of entities I would like to hide.  See the type arrowed in green.

Construction Entities.JPG

Since my post I have discovered that I can make a new layer to the specified entity type and specifically hide this.

Is there an easier way?  I would prefer to select all of a type and just right click hide, but that isn't possible that I can see.

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pimm15-MoonstoneAuthor
15-Moonstone
November 22, 2016

Matthew,

Thank you for asking.

I guess my initial quandary was that I didn't see an obvious way of turning the construction lines off. 

There were layers shown for each individual drawing view but even though I could select the construction entities within each view there was no option to turn these off.

I filter selected all of the construction entities and was hoping they would blank by a right click option but it wasn't there.

Adding to the confusion I was finding that my construction entities moved around from where they were on the view.  As Kevin suggests it would be best if I didn't need to use construction entities and that in most cases I should be able to get dimensions without it.  This may be true but at this point I haven't learned the way to do this.

It would really be nice if you could toggle hide construction entities.  There are cases when I do want to see a line or arc, but anything that has only a dimension construction purpose it would be nice to hide the clutter with one button push.

This wouldn't be the highest wish on my list (that would be allowing showing drawing decimal places that would be independent of the model decimal places).  Now that I know I can save off the construction entities on a layer I would just need to define this in each drawing.  If however this was changed to toggle on and off  it  would be used all of the time in my application.

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