Hi all
I have a couple of patterns that I would like to hide on a particular drawing view. I know how to accomplish this through creating a new configuration with suppression, but I really don't want to do that, as I already plan on having many configurations and it would complicate things too much.
I had the bright idea of using a display state and hiding the patterns, it works fine till the pattern changes - then I have random bodies all over the show. I sort of understand why - SW doesn't hide the pattern parametrically (which in my view should be the behaviour of hiding a pattern) its like a one off thing.
Just typing this I guess I could try Isolate, and saving as a display state.. That doesn't work either, in fact it's even worse in that it doesn't work properly in the first place.
Im on SW15 SP4 - I guess the Isolate problem is a bug and the hide pattern is just a limitation. Any other suggestion please?
Not sure if this will work Rob, but one thing I do in assemblies is put all hidden parts in different display states in a folder prior to hiding.
I am thinking you could put the pattern in it's own folder and hide the folder, thus whatever gets added to the folder will hide everything in that folder.
It's also Friday and my brain may be checking out on me. But I thought I would give a stab at this one, since I don't pattern bodies very often I could be way off base.