Using visibility commands

While everything covered in this chapter so far will help you organize your models and make them easier to navigate and work with, there are situations where you will need to change something in your model as you work on it. You might want to temporarily hide one Object temporarily, or show what has been hidden in your model just for the duration of one modify command. These situations do not require a modification to your workflow but can be addressed using a few Edit and View commands.

Visibility while editing Objects

Any time you edit a Group or Component, you can temporarily hide everything else in the model with a single command. In the View menu is a sub-menu called Component Edit. In this sub-menu there are two toggles: Hide Rest of Model and Hide Similar Components. Clicking on one of these options will place a checkmark next to them. If they are checked, they will automatically activate anytime you edit an Object (yes, the name of the sub menu...