Visualizing Functional Features

This page provides information about the different ways of visualizing functional features.

Topics discussed are:

Hiding or Showing the Geometry of a Solid Functional Set

If the solid functional set is in no show mode, protected features (in red) as well as wireframe geometry remain visible, unless they are contained in a nested solid functional set.

To hide or conversely, show the geometry of a solid functional set:

  • Right-click Solid Functional Set .x and select Hide/show.
  • or Right-click its corresponding functional solid and select Hide/show.
  • or Right-click its corresponding body and select Hide/show.
     
The following figures illustrate the effect of visualization of solid functional set on different features:

In the above figure, the nested solid functional set Nested_Solid_Functional_Set.2 is in no show mode. You can observe that the Circular_Sketch_in_Nested_SFS 2 feature and the shape of Protected_Prism_in_Nested_SFS 2 under Nested_Solid_Functional_Set 2 are visible. This is because the nested body nested_Body.2 is in show mode.

Similarly, the sketch feature Rectangular_Skecth 1 and the protected prism feature Protected_Prism 1 are visible because Solid_Functional_Set.1 is in show mode.

In the above figure, the solid functional set Hiddend_Solid_Functional_Set is in no show mode. As a result, its actual solid geometry is not visible. In this case, you can observe that the fillet Hidden_PDG_EdgeFillet is not seen, but the shape of Protected Prism.2, the shape of Shell Properties.1 and all wireframe/sketch are seen.

Features Contained in a Functional Set

Functional features contained in a functional set are no longer visible as soon as you have selected Only Current Body in the Tools toolbar. However, the features contained in the current solid functional set are shown.

Solid Functional Set.1 is set as current. Only Current Body is not selected so that all its features are visible.

Proctected Prism.2 is hidden since Only Current Body is selected.

Hiding or Showing Protected Features

By default, pure protected features, like protected, holes and fitting features remain visible once created (shown in red).

Conversely, features that are not purely protected like cutout, pocket, push, pull features are hidden once created.

Just use the Show/No Show capability to manage the visualization of features.