About View Filters

• View filters
• Filterable elements
• Non-filterable elements
• The Default filter
• Equivalent filters
• Newly created views
• Naming Uniqueness
• Reorder Filters

View filters

View filters can be created for the following view types:

• Projection views (front, top, bottom, left, right and rear)
• Isometric views
• Section views, section cuts and auxiliary views
   

When creating view filters, remember the following points:

• You cannot change the filter type (Display, Mask or Equivalent) once it has been created.
• Filters do not change the graphic properties of elements in the filtered view, they simply overload them. This means that filters cannot show elements that are hidden in the 3D model, nor can they make pickable elements which are not pickable in the 3D model.
• More generally, filters conform to the standard behavior of elements. Refer to the specific User's Guide for more information.
• When pasting to another layout a view to which view filters are applied, the filter is not pasted (therefore, the view is not filtered).
• When editing a multi-instantiated part layout in the context of a product, only the edited instance is affected by the filter, and only the sub-elements of the part reference can be filtered.
• Filtered elements may be impacted by the result of an operation (such as activating/deactivating the elements, changing its Hide, Low Intensity or No Pick property, cutting, deleting, etc.). Most operations are automatically supported and you do not need to perform an update.
  However, after having selected a feature or a Geometrical Set in the context of a Change Geometrical Set operation, you need to perform a manual update (using the Local Update command which is available when right-clicking the layout, sheet or view).
• You can launch Edit > Selection Sets and Edit > Search while the Edit Filter dialog box is running. However, only filterable elements are actually selected. You can also use the power input mode to launch a search query. For more information on selection sets, search operations and the power input mode, refer to the Infrastructure User's Guide.

Filterable elements

You can filter the following elements:

• Part Design: xy plane, yz plane, zx plane, PartBody, Body at the first level, Geometrical Set (under the root part or contained in another geometrical set), Ordered Geometrical Set of first level, User Defined Feature (only contained in a geometrical set), 3D Tags (only contained in a geometrical set).
• Functional Tolerancing & Annotation: Annotation, Annotations Set, Capture Callout, Constructed geometry, Datum, Deviation, Dimension, Distance Between two points, Geometrical Tolerance, Note, View.
• Generative Shape Design: elements contained in a Geometrical Set (under the root part or contained in another geometrical set), and listed below.
   

  3D Curve Offset Adaptive Sweep Affinity Axis line Axis to Axis Bead Blend Boundary Bump Circle Combine Conic Connect Curve Corner Curve (Isolated)           Curve Smooth Cylinder Datum Curve Datum Point Datum Surface Develop

  Diabolo Edge Fillet Extract Extrapolate Extremum Extremum Polar Extrude Elements in an ordered geometrical set Face-Face Fillet Fill Healing Helix Hole Hole Curve Intersection Inverse Isoparametric Curve    Join Junction Law Line

  Mating Flange Multi Output Feature Multiple Extract Multi selection surface Near Offset Outputs from MultiOutput Parallel Curve Pattern of Features circular Pattern of Features rectangular     Plane Plane between Plane set Point Polyline Projection Reflect Line Revolve Rotate Rough Offset

  Scaling Shape FilletShape morphing Sketch Sketch output feature (both types)  Sphere Spine Spiral Spline Split Surface (isolated) Sweep Symmetry Translate Trim Tritangent Fillet Unfold Untrim Variable Fillet Variable Offset Wrap Curve Warp Surface

  
  

  In an ordered geometrical set, when you select any element having a resulting element, the resulting element is selected. For example, Split.1 created from Extrude.1 and Extrude.2. When you select Extrude.2, the resulting element Split.1 is selected.

• 2D Layout for 3D Design

  2D Layout Note: Filtering the layout, filters all the views in all the layout sheets. Sheet Note: Filtering the sheet, filters all the views in this sheet. Design views belonging to the same layout.

Non-filterable elements

In general, you cannot filter any element that is not listed as being filterable (in the preceding paragraph). Among these, you cannot filter the following elements:

• Bodies or Ordered Geometrical Sets which are not at the first level.
• Elements contained in a PartBody or in an Ordered Geometrical Set.
• Part features, CAA features, Volumes, 3D Measure elements.
• Bodies that are the object of a Boolean operation.
• Design views belonging to another layout, isometric views belonging to the same or another layout.
  

Default filters

A default filter exists in any 2D layout. A default filter is the first filter that appears in the list of filters. This filter is used to filter all the newly created views.

A default filter is followed by the phrase (As default filter) in the list of filters.

To edit the default filters, click More in the Change View Filter dialog box. In the Layout View Filters dialog box that opens, you can perform the following operations:

Equivalent filters

When creating a view from a FTA capture, the capture definition is saved in a layout as an equivalent filter (mask filter type). This is the only way to create an equivalent filter.

An equivalent filter is associative with its reference FTA capture. A single filter can be created from a FTA capture. If several 2D layout views are created from the same FTA capture, the same equivalent filter is re-used to filter the created views.

Once created, the filters equivalent to FTA captures are accessible from the Layout View Filters dialog box and can be applied to any kind of layout views. These filters are not editable, but you can change their content by changing their reference capture.

Refer to Creating a filtered view from FTA.

Newly created views

New views are created according to the options selected in Tools > Options > Mechanical Design > 2D Layout for 3D Design > View Creation tab > Filter category. Refer to View Creation for more information.

Naming Uniqueness

Reorder Filters