Option to disable highlighting hidden objects?

[ptc-4864603]

In a drawing, is there a way to disable highlighting/selection of objects that aren't visible? Mainly in section views.

Thank you.

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[ClintWalton]

Hi Ryan,

Can you clarify what you are asking. What do you mean by objects; are they components, GTOLs, etc? Are the objects hidden on a layer or do they just have hidden line style in the section view?

What release of Pro/ENGINEER are you using?

Clint

[ptc-4864603]

Hello Clint,

It's mainly in section views where it gets tedious ballooning.

Learning about the "aperture" setting helped out a little.

Thanks.

Ryan

[James62]

I also coudn't find any way to skip or remove objects from preselection highlight list in an assembly drawing view selection.

For the reason that the highlighting loops through everything that is, and also is not, under the cursor, while it isn't or is sectioned away, ballooning of sectioned assembly drawing views gets very time consuming.

This applies to all WF and Creo versions.

[TomD.inPDX]

Something like "use surface to filter objects/features behind the surface at the mouse pointer off" Or "if you can't see it, don't select it"... that kind of thing. Pretty basic, and even a simple toggle on several -other- platforms.

[James62]

Tom, you meant to say this option exists?

[TomD.inPDX]

Inigraphics NX is a fine example and IIRC, SolidWorks,

[neomechanikos]

This is more of a workaround. Since the parts aren't visible, you can create a view-specific layer and place the hidden components onto this layer and hide it. This will disable prehighlighting for those components in that view. It would be nice if Creo had a check box for this in the view properties under sections.