Part remains hidden

I'm new at this... I hid a part in the assembly and can't get it back. The
part file also has turned invisible, although the tree looks okay. Help,
please!

 

Well you can search the tree the part you hid should show as a clear block
instead of a yellow one. If you have many parts then you have to do them
one by one. There are some utilities out there to help handle this type of
stuff, i believe most of them are free. I wrote one that gives you a
preview of the part. If you would like to use it send me an e-mail and I'll
send it right over.

Corey

 

open the part, rmb on ANY feature, Show Solid Body

hehe

 

If you know you only have that part hidden, or maybe only a few identifiable
ones, you can highlight all the items in the Feature Tree, then go to
Edit\Show with Dependents and decide what configs it applies to, if you have
more than one. This will "unhide" everything down to the last, deepest
part.

WT

 

hehe is right - in SW2004, it no longer works that way. You can only click
the LAST feature that contributes to the solid body to Show/Hide.

I have presonally complained in the past that surfaces didn't work like
solids; we could conveniently show/hide on any feature in the solid, but
only the last feature that contributes to a surface could be clicked for a
show/hide. So, in a viscious attemtp at consistency, instead of fixing the
way surfaces work they screwed up the way solids work. Way to go (insert
insult here).

They will of course excuse themselves by pointing to the bodies folder at
the top of the tree - but if you have many hidden bodies, some copies of
others, its a severe waste of productivity to find the correct one to
show/hide.

Maybe the guy who was charged with this fucntionality was leaving the
company and wanted to include a little 'f*** you' into the program on his
last day? Thats the only thing I can think of that explains this.

-Ed

 

Dunno... I tried all suggestions so far but no go. Since it was a design
table controlled part, I deleted and recreated it. Still don't know what
caused the problem - there are dimensions and it occasionally previewed
okay, and sometimes it just previewed with a shadow, but when it rebuilt,
*poof*. Anyway, moving ahead now. Thanks, all.

Mac