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Visibility Toolbar

Visibility commands let you manage actor visibility in the scene.

Command Name Description
Show All Displays all actors.
Show All Geometry Displays all geometry actors without changing the visibility of collaborative actors.
Show Selection and Hide Others Displays the selected actors and hides all other actors.
Show Selection and Ghost Others Displays the selected actors, ghosts (displays as partially transparent) all other geometry actors, and hides all other collaborative actors.

Notes:

  • You cannot ghost collaborative actors. Ghosting collaborative actors hides them.
  • You cannot select ghosted actors in the viewport. Select them in the Assembly tree.

Hide Selection Hides the selected actors without affecting the visibility of other actors.

Tips:

  • You can also hide actors by pressing H.
  • You can temporarily hide actors by highlighting them in the scene and pressing Tab. To restore visibility, press Shift+Tab or move the mouse off the actor. This capability is useful to access actors that are below other actors.

Show Selection Displays the selected actors without affecting the visibility of other actors.
Ghost Selection Makes the selected actors partially transparent without affecting the visibility of other actors.

Notes:

  • You cannot ghost collaborative actors. Ghosting collaborative actors hides them.
  • You cannot select ghosted actors in the viewport. Select them in the Assembly tree.

Invert Visibility Hides visible actors and displays hidden and ghosted actors.
Invert Visibility with Ghost Ghosts visible actors and displays hidden and ghosted actors.
Unghost Restores full visibility to all ghosted actors.
Show/Hide BOM Table Toggles visibility of the BOM table in the viewport.
Show/Hide Callouts Toggles visibility of callout collaborative actors.

Tip: The Filter on visible callouts BOM table property controls whether callout visibility affects the BOM table.

Show/Hide Collaboration Toggles visibility of collaborative actors.
Restore Active View Visibility Restores the visibility of all actors of the active view. Use this command when you have made changes in the view (such as changing actors' position, adding actors, changing actors' visibility) and then want to restore the visibility of all actors to the last updated state. Other properties such as color, opacity, position, etc. will not be restored.
Load on Visibility Enables loading on demand (LOD) mode. If a product is not loaded and visibility is activated, then the object is loaded.


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