Toggling (UNDO/REDO) of Hide & Show (Revisited)

A followup to a couple of threads regarding visibility toggling.

The Visibility Toggling macro was converted back to .swp and I was
amazed at the increase in speed. It's something like 10X faster.
Available at kentcontract.com. A free update will be sent out to
registered users.

Thanks,
Kent



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From: SR ()
Subject: Assembly Transparency


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Date: 2003-11-14 09:40:54 PST


While the assembly transparency is nice, does anyone know how to turn
all parts off with designing in-context? This wasn't much of a problem
when I was designing small assemblies. I would just select the
parts/subassys and "Hide", but now that I'm working on an assembly
with more parts this is getting to be a real pain. I tried setting up
configurations, but really what I want is to be able todo is toggle
between showing the assembly components (Opague or Transparent) and
hiding all the assembly components when I'm editing a part. Any
feedback would be appreciated.

TIA,
SR

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From: Todd ()
Subject: Re: Assembly Transparency


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Date: 2003-12-04 10:24:46 PST


Guys:

What are your thoughts on this macro?

How slow? What seems to be the threshold of components where it's a
pain to use?

I have a combo of free macros I'm using for this type of thing -- but
with alot of parts they are dog slow.

Wouldn't be nice if SolidWorks Corp. put incredibly useful things like
this into the software? I think it's great that SWX has a good API
that allows this sort of thing but some on these things should be
no-brainers for them to integrate into the code.

Todd



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Message 1 in thread
From: Per O. Hoel ()
Subject: Toggling (UNDO/REDO) of Hide & Show

Date: 2003-01-10 13:54:54 PST

I can't tell you how often (especially during presentations and
development sessions) I'll select one or more parts to hide from view
just TEMPORARILY.

Then, moments later, when it's time to redisplay them the hunt begins
to locate the parts for selection within the Feature Manager. This
reselection process can often be very tedious when the number of parts
is large and especially when some are embedded within sub-assemblies.

Ideally it should be possible to simply click the UNDO button in order
to revert to the previous display of components. Additionally, having
a REDO for the display could allow for going back and forth quickly
when hiding and showing the same selected parts repeatedly.

Setting up configurations to handle this is NOT a solution, since the
need is for "on the fly" random selections!

If any of you have found a way to handle this efficiently using the
existing user interface, please advise. I think an enhancement request
is in order...

Per O. Hoel