Hello,
I have a part with a few hundred configurations. I want to add a couple of display states that hide some bodies across all the configurations? However when I go to hide a body it doesn't hide in all the configs. (And, no, i do not have the display states linked to the configurations.) The point was to be able to use any one of the 5 displays on any one of the hundreds of configs, not one state with each.
help?
Elise
yes, I am. But the body will only hide in some configs and not others. Some configurations have those bodies suppressed, so i'm wondering if that is the issue? Or maybe I needed to make the display states before the design table?
I'm pretty sure that the configurations and display states are independent. So if you're looking at a configuration where the body is showing, try switching display states.
You are correct on your configuration settings if you don't have them linked display states will translate through all configurations. That being said you can't hide what is suppressed since it is already not visible when suppressed. You should still get the same look...are you not? I am not understanding why you would need to hide something that is already suppressed. If it is only suppressed for visual purposes than just don't supress it and hide it.
Cheers,
Derek
The bodies are only suppressed on some of the configurations, not all. The problem is that even that bodies that are unsurpressed on all configurations will not hide without me going through all 576 configs, and hiding it on each one. I can't just hide a body and it hides on all of them.
Hmm, that's strange. In my experience unless you have your display states linked to a configuration they translate in all of the configurations. I don't ever deal with files with 576 configurations though. Just to be clear you have Configuration 1 with Display State 1 with a body hidden and you then switch to Configuration 2 with Display State 1 selected and the body is visible. anyway you could attach a few screen shots of what you are seeing, the tree and your configuration display states visible.
Are you hiding the body from within the Solid Bodies folder when the pdisplay state is active?
That works for me.