Hide/show group of parts

No you can only select parts then hide those. If you want to hide other parts then you will have to pick those. You can do it either in the Graphics area of in the FM.

Regards, Scott

Just a thought here. A macro should be able to traverse the FM tree and reverse the selections. Then you could tell it to hide, suppress, etc.

WT

As an exercise for the student, make this macro a noshow. Hint: look for the hidebodies method. Must preselect items to show or hide.

' ****************************************************************************** ' SHOW.swb - macro recorded on 06/21/04 by kellnerp ' ****************************************************************************** Dim swApp As Object Dim Part As Object Dim boolstatus As Boolean Dim longstatus As Long, longwarnings As Long Dim FeatureData As Object Dim Feature As Object Dim Component As Object Sub main()

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

Set Part = swApp.ActiveDoc Part.FeatureManager.ShowBodies Part.ClearSelection2 True

End Sub

How about using a folder to put parts to display? Then just right click the folder to suppress or unsuppress all parts in that folder. Incontext parts would be screwed up though!

Keith

Try the Visibility Toggling program at:

Ken