hide skeletons

[pagnotz]

Bye to all,
Sometimes I have to make carpentry structures, consisting of various welded assemblies (united with bolted connections, for example), each having its own "skeleton", consisting of a sketch or, more often, by a solid 3d (set as "hidden" in distinct components).
is there a quick way to hide all skeletons when they are in the main axieme?
with "object visibility" I can hide in one blow only all the sketches, but not the solid 3d that act as skeletons.
thanks in advance

 

[DrBarde]

we usually use sketches and not 3d solids as skeletons for this.

 

[Pulici68]

if you use skeletons with solids then they are not skeletons. in all cads of the world the skeleton is a sketch 2 or 3d driving. if you need solids to be able to size it on the basis of a solid, do not use the solid, use a surface. then use hide surfaces.
Invenotor tutorial 2012 on skeleton built on a surface ball.

 

[pagnotz]

we usually use sketches and not 3d solids as skeletons for this.

Yes I could do so too, but in so many cases use a solid as a skeleton is very practical.

 

[Catafratto]

I put a prefix to my skeletons, so that I can quickly find them by searching in the side browser, and then I create dedicated views

 

[pagnotz]

if you use skeletons with solids then they are not skeletons. in all cads of the world the skeleton is a sketch 2 or 3d driving. if you need solids to be able to size it on the basis of a solid, do not use the solid, use a surface. then use hide surfaces.
Invenotor tutorial 2012 on skeleton built on a surface ball.

inventor allows to use solids as skeletons of frame structures (and in many cases, combined with 2d sketches on the faces of the solid, are for me more practical than a 3d sketch). I do not see why a solid cannot be considered a skeleton.
It seems to me a great idea to create them as a surface, so it will be easier to hide them.
I'll try the advice, thank you.

 

[Peppe]

You could play on the views.
each set that contains your skeleton/solid frame skeleton part turn off this part in "default" representation but above all in "main" (the last block) and saved.
in this way if you insert your set with frame in other contexts your skeleton will be turned off.

 

[pagnotz]

I put a prefix to my skeletons, so that I can quickly find them by searching in the side browser, and then I create dedicated views

good idea also this, since I always call them with the code of the assieme of which are skeletons, followed by the word "skeleton", looking for this word I can find them and hide them all quite quickly.

 

[pagnotz]

You could play on the views.
each set that contains your skeleton/solid frame skeleton part turn off this part in "default" representation but above all in "main" (the last block) and saved.
in this way if you insert your set with frame in other contexts your skeleton will be turned off.

I should do some evidence. if I open a sub-assieme with skeleton and hide the skeleton in default, when I return to the main axieme you can still see (already tried).
If I hide it in "mainstream", I should ask, when saved, to create a new representation of sight, since the main one is, in fact, blocked.

 

[Catafratto]

... when I return to the main axieme you can still see (already tried).

sometimes you have to select expressly from the main axieme with dx>representations button that the subaxieme uses the main representation; so you see it fits.
(but totally grasped logic even if there is definitely one)

 

[Peppe]

I always use default axiemi or a representation created ad hoc and never keep in the main because blocked

 

[pagnotz]

sometimes you have to select expressly from the main axieme with dx>representations button that the subaxieme uses the main representation; so you see it fits.
(but totally grasped logic even if there is definitely one)

ah yes rightly I have to tell him to display it with the default representation in the main axieme.
However with these axioms already created, the quickest solution seems to me to look for the word "skeleton", and hide all the results out.
in the future I will try to create skeletons as surfaces and not as solids, to be able to hide them from "object visibility".

 

[Peppe]

such a caseistic happens when you generate shared sketches. until you open the part in a separate window, you remove the visibility manually of the sketch this part inserted in various contexts will always present the visible sketch.

 

[pagnotz]

I always use default axiemi or a representation created ad hoc and never keep in the main because blocked

You have to change one by one, right?
because by default it seems to me that insert the assemblies always with "main view representation".

 

[Peppe]

Unfortunately yes, I now have a habit of doing it on each component

 

[pagnotz]

waiting to try in the future to create skeletons as surfaces instead of as solids, the easiest method for me is to use the search function with the word "skeleton", which I always insert in the file name, select all the elements found and uncheck "visibility".

 

[Cast16]

another way could be: Since skeletons are usually reference components (bom structure), you can use the find looking for all these components. I tried it in a complex set. . .