About Hiding Features and Entities
Creo Parametric allows you to hide and unhide selected model features and entities in the current Creo Parametric session.
To save design time, you can use the following mini toolbar or the View > Visibility options to hide or show, features and entities:
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Hide — Hides the selected features, components, and layers.
• Show:
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Show — Shows the selected features, components, and layers.
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Show Only — Shows only the selected feature and hides all other features of the same type. You can use this option on planes, coordinate systems, axes, points, curves, quilts, and components.
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Show All Except — Hides the selected feature and shows all other features of the same type. You can use this option on planes, coordinate systems, axes, points, curves, quilts, and components.
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Unhide All — Shows all hidden non-layer model features.
You can also perform the following tasks
• You do not have to assign the entities to a layer and then blank the entire layer.
• You can hide and redisplay individual datum features, such as datum planes and datum axes, without having to hide or redisplay all of the datum features at once.
• You can use the Model Tree search capability (Tools > Find) to select all features of a specified type (for example, all features of the same type in all components within an assembly) and then hide them using View > Hide.
The following types of features and entities can be hidden:
• Individual datum planes (as opposed to hiding or showing all datum planes at once)
• Datum Axes
• Features that contain axes, planes, and coordinate systems
• Analysis features (points and coordinate systems)
• Datum points (whole arrays)
• Coordinate systems
• Datum curves (whole curves, not individual curve segments)
• Quilts (whole quilts, not individual surfaces)
• Assembly components
When you hide an item, Creo Parametric removes the item from the graphics window. The hidden item remains in the Model Tree list, and its icon dims to reveal its hidden status. When you unhide an item, its icon returns to normal display (undimmed) and the item is redisplayed in the Graphics window.
You can save or reset a layer display status as follows:
Save Status—To save the current layer display status, on the
View tab, click the arrow next to
Status and then click
Save Status.
|  Saving the object does not save the current layer display status. To save the current layer display status when saving the object, you must use View >  Save Status and then save the object. |
Reset Status—If you change the layer display status after you have saved a status then to revert to the last saved layer display status, on the
View tab, click the arrow next to
Status and then click
Reset Status.