Hiding Objects

This task explains how to hide objects by transferring them to the No Show space (they are no longer displayed).
In DMU Navigator, when you transfer a Review to the No Show space, Groups that belong to the Review will not be transferred to No Show space at the same time.

  1. Select an object.

    In our example, select the line.

  2. Click Hide/Show in the View toolbar, or select View > Hide/Show > Hide/Show.

    Note that you can also right-click the object then select Hide/Show.
    The object (the line in our example) is no longer displayed: it has been transferred into the No Show space.

    Note also that if you have several document windows open containing the same objects, the object is transferred to the No Show space in each document window.

    When selecting multiple elements, all the selected elements are processed in one step and as a whole. There is no individual process, whatever the original space of each selected element. This means that all the selected elements are in the same final state:
    • If all the selected elements are in the Show space, clicking Hide/Show transfers them all to the No Show space
    • If all the selected elements are in the No Show space, clicking Hide/Show transfers them all to the Show space
    • If the multi-selection is heterogeneous, clicking Hide/Show transfers the selected elements either to the Show space, or to the No Show space ; the result is unpredictable.

  3. Click Hide/Show again to display the object in the Show space.
    Note that you cannot hide a face or a feature of a solid tree because all solid features aggregated under a solid tree are considered as one element. Therefore, they cannot be individually impacted by the Hide/Show capability.

    For instance, in the following tree,
    hiding a feature such as Chamfer.1 or Pad.1 hides the whole solid geometry:
    For more information on the behavior of the Hide/Show capability in products, refer to "Managing Graphic Properties in Products" in the Version 5 - Product Structure User's Guide.

When an object is selected, you can right-click it then select Properties (or select Edit > Properties), access the Graphic tab, and look at the Shown check box to know whether the object is hidden or not:

  • means that the object is in the Show space
  • means that the object is in the No Show space.

This check box is displayed for your information only, the Properties dialog box does not let you modify the object's visibility.

A component placed in the No Show space in the product structure appears in low highlighting in the tree.