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:
The graphical view becomes less cluttered, and it’s easier to work with the items of interest.
If many items are being displayed at once, hiding those not in use will speed up the graphics considerably.
Graphical selection becomes easier, because there are less items to pick incorrectly.
To Toggle An Individual Item’s Visibility:
Right-click the item in the tree or graphical view and toggle the Show option.
To Hide or Show All Items In a Container or Category:
Right-click the container (collection or folder) or category in the tree and select Hide All or Show All.
To Hide or Show Individual Points:
Right-click the point in the tree or graphical view and toggle the Show setting to toggle visibility of individual points, or select View>Show Points or >Hide Points, then select the points to show or hide.
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.
Hide/Show Selected Points offers a prompt to allow you to select a list of points to hide or show.
Hide/Show Selected Items offers a prompt to allow you to select a list of items to hide or show. Items are any object such as CAD, SA Geometry, Vector Groups etc. Selecting a single point will in tern select the entire group.
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.
In the Show Selected Sources dialog, select the sources you’d like to show, then click OK.
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.
Show Nominals - this option should allow a user to control display of the nominal geometry only within a selection of GR-Features
Show Measured - this option should allow a user to control display of the measured geometry only within a selection of GR-Features
Show Nominal and Measured - this option should allow a user to control display of the both nominal and measured geometry within a selection of GR-Features. The selections you made for display should overwrite the display for both objects.
Vector Group Thinning