Activity 2: Change the Visibility of Objects

These activities are designed to help you get

started with CAD to teach you essential operations

and techniques. And in this video,

we're going to go over activity number 2,

which is to change the visibility

of objects within the CAD system.

So, looking now at the instructions,

we want to

change what is displayed

with the 3D geometry,

and we're gonna try that.

We're gonna start by looking in the feature list.

And hovering over a sketch or a plane, and we're gonna click

on the eye that appears right to the right side of the operation

name and to hide it or to unhide it.

So, let's go down that path first.

First of all,

here is the feature list

over in this area.

And we can see as we're looking at this object

that we only see the geometry right now in this object.

But if we come over here for example to top plane

and show the top plane,

we can now see the geometry and the top plane in there.

Now, I could do that with all of these

with the center axis.

I could do it.

I could even go into here into these things and

turn on these sketches.

OK.

Sketches are used to create the 3D geometry

as you're sort of going along with it.

And so,

that's that. We can use the eyeball to hide

or to show

things.

OK,

that's great. We'll go on to the next part of the instruction then.

The next part is to

try some keyboard shortcuts to hide or show multiple objects

all at once.

So for example,

we press P

to hide or show all the planes,

shift and H to hide or show all the sketches,

and shift P to hide

all of the sketches,

planes,

and curves.

So, let's go try those ones.

OK.

So, if I hit the

keyboard,

key,

I can see all the planes coming on and off

every time I hit the key.

We

can also do shift H,

which will get my sketches

on and off.

And if I have my sketches on and my planes on,

then you can see sometimes you wouldn't really want that to be the case.

And so, you can do the shift P to get rid of everything

all at once.

OK.

That's it for

that activity.

It's all about visibility.