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ChristianSmith1-Visitor
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January 11, 2011
Question

Hiding datums

  • January 11, 2011
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Is there any way to hide the yellow datums that appear in assemblies or parts? With normal datums you can just hide them, I can't seem to figure out how to hide these ones or if there is a hide/show button for them. What I'm talking about is shown in the image. The yellow datums C and B. Thanks

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ChristianSmith1-VisitorAuthor
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January 11, 2011

I lied, I guess I know how to do it using the model tree and finding each datum and hiding each one individually. I'm wondering if there is a way to do a mass hide datums?

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nico741-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 11, 2011

Hi Christian,

The best way I found is the use of layers, but it would be nice to use the hide plane to hide all.

This is specifically tru with pdm link, if you forget to blank you layer and datum plane before approving you model you can't hide them anymore unless you upissue your model.

Nicolas

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JonathanHodgson13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
January 11, 2011

When planes have been set as datums for geometric tolerances, they don't switch off with the 'standard' planes.

We create a layer in each part (or assembly) called GTOL_DATUMS, and add each such plane. (It may be possible to use rules to do this automatically.)

If the layers in each part in an assembly have the same name, they all group together in the assembly layer tree and can easily be turned off together.

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Kevin1-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 11, 2011

For the rule use Shown Datum Plane (Axis) to select those that are set datums.

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JonathanHodgson13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
January 12, 2011

Kevin,

Could you explain further?

We have some automatic layer settings; they are in our config.pro (WF4) as follows:

def_layer LAYER_DATUM_PLANE ALL_PLANES
def_layer LAYER_CURVE CURVES
def_layer LAYER_DATUM_POINT ALL_POINTS
def_layer LAYER_AXIS ALL_AXES

and some more in the same style, so that any plane created is automatically added to ALL_PLANES; any curve goes onto CURVES; points go onto ALL_POINTS and so on.

Can we use this to also automatically put datums onto GTOL_DATUMS? This is what I was suggesting above.

Thanks!

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