Shortcut: Hide - y / Show - Shift+y

Hide/Show selected Part Studio or Assembly entities. These can be sketches, parts/instances, surfaces, mates, folders, or groups. Hide/Show are a set of toggle commands available from the context menu of a Parts list in a Part Studio, the Instances list in an Assembly, or the graphics area when hovering over a model.

Hide/Show is used:

  • To better access entities that may be hidden by other entities (for example, parts hidden by other parts)

  • To show all entities of a specified type (for example, showing all mates in an assembly)

  • When modeling parts that are geometrically reliant on one another

  • When editing in-context.

Available commands are:

  • Hide/Show - Disables or enables the display of a model entity in the graphics area.

  • Hide/Show all - Hides or shows all entities of the same type in the current tab. For example, right-clicking on an instance in an assembly Instances list and selecting Hide all instances hides all instances in the assembly.

  • Hide/Show other - Hides or shows all entities of the same type other than what is currently selected in the current tab. For example, right-clicking on a mate in an assembly Mate features list, and selecting Hide other mates hides all mates in the assembly other than the one currently selected (or right-clicked on).

Hide example

Select the parts to hide and click Hide in the context menu. The selected parts before Hide:

Model example before hide

The model after Hide:

Model example after hide

Hide other parts example

Select the parts you want to visualize and click Hide other parts in the context menu:

Hide other parts example

All other parts are hidden except those selected.

  • Use the shortcut key y to hide an entity under the cursor (entity shows highlighting on hover). Use Shift+y to show the entity.

  • Additional tools are available to isolate and make entities transparent. See Isolate and Make Transparent.

  • Box select also works for selecting entities in the graphics area.