**Solution** Hiding a Cosmetic Sketch in a Merged Model

[TedOtto]

Incase any of you were wondering, the below suggestion did work. After placing the merge feature on the layer, everything but the solid geometry was hidden. I assumed everything would have been placed on the layer and been hidden, but apparently not the case.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Ted


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[StephenW]

Just for clarification on layers, you can't HIDE solid geometry in a PART layer. You can add solid features such as extrudes, holes, merges, etc, to a layer in a part and HIDE that layer. It will not cause the solid geometry to be Hidden. It will however hide stuff like merge sketches and axis and datums from merges that are directly associated to the feature that is on the Hidden layer.

So the analogy I would use it if you HIDE the hole feature layer, the hole is still there and showing, but the axis that is associated to that hole is now hidden. If you want to hide the hole, you can either suppress it (not good for references) OR you can make a part simplified rep and exclude the hole in that rep.

Steve

[pfariello]

Hoping I am catching the whole issue. You can add solid geometry to a part layer. Not sure you can add individual features but you can add the whole solid. In the layer properties menu, with the query select menu, choose the "SolidGeom".


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Regards
Patrick Fariello

[StephenW]

Okay, that's a new one on me. Being the old fart and thinking nothing ever changes doesn't mean nothing ever changes. That's sort of an all or nothing sort of concept though. On WF4, I tested "solidgeom" on a hole feature and a extrude and it Hides everything, the "whole" of the solid geometry. Then I added a surface feature and it didn't hide that.

I guess it gives you another tool in the tool box for visualizing. If you add the solid geometry to a layer and hide that layer, you still see the surface and the datum axis associated to that solid geometry.

[lylebeidler]

This is a very useful tool when you're doing surfacing work where you're
trying to attach surfaces to existing solids, or constructing surfaces to do
a complex cut on an existing solid. lots of nice uses for this one.



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