Object Visibility

All items within SA can be shown or hidden. Hiding an item will remove it from the graphical view, and will dim the item’s name in the tree to gray.

Hiding items not in use has a number of benefits, chief of which are:

To Toggle An Individual Item’s Visibility:

To Hide or Show All Items In a Container or Category:

To Hide or Show Individual Points:

 

The graphical display status of items can also be inspected within the tree. Below are a set of frame. The top one "WORLD" is the job's current working frame and that's why it is listed in bold blue. Below is a "Frame1" which is displayed using a light gray text color. This tells you that the Frame1 is hidden in the graphics.

 

Hide or Show Multiple Objects: Select from the list of options in the View Control>Visibility drop down.

 Filter View by CAD Source:

You can also filter the graphical view to display items only from a specific source. This source can be either SA itself, or an imported CAD file. This allows you to immediately hide objects imported from one or more CAD files, or to immediately hide native SA objects.

  1. In the Show Selected Sources dialog, select the sources you’d like to show, then click OK.

  2. The filter will apply until you change it again.

 Hide or Show Nominal or Measured Geometry:

The Nominal and Measured sections offers the ability to control the display of geometry linked to a Geometry Relationship or (GR-Feature). These options will open an F2 dialog allowing selected of the desired GR-Features to edit.

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