Am I going crazy ?

guy_rogel

I think (or either i am going crazy) something has gone very badly with the hide and show option in the last few days When I hide all instances in an assembly with few levels , and then press show on a subassembly it will not show the parts. I need to go through all the parts and show them.
Am I going crazy , it was never like this before was it ? Before this change , if I asked to show a subassembly it automatically showed all the parts under it no ?

Matthew_Rosete380

Do you mean that when you hide a part in a subassembly and it doesn't show when you show the subassembly? If that's the case if you hide a part in another assembly it doesn't matter if you show the assembly itself the parts will still be hidden. I hoped that helped.

STEG

You can hide/show parts and assemblies separately. If an assembly is "shown" but its parts are "hidden", you won't see its parts even if the assembly is in a "show" state. I suggest you learn and use "display states".

S1mon

Hide/Show is ultimately dangerous. All users see the hide/show state, and it is recorded in history, but it's not a great way to capture design intent. It's also not great for temporary viewing. Isolate or Make transparent are much better for temporary, per user, visibility changes. For more permanent, and easy to recall states, "display states" or suppressing components with configurations is better.

I still use hide/show - carefully - sometimes, but I always consider the result of "show all" to be the correct design intent of a document. Anything else seems like a potential mistake that some user made for temporary view purposes.