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Hide/show components

Hide/show components - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Hide/show components

- [Presenter] On the exam, we might be asked to identify hidden components in an assembly. Now you can see here we have an assembly on a drawing, and there's actually several components that have been hidden, and so we need to go ahead and find where those are. So over here, if I click on the sheet format, and click on the drawing view, and click on the tool down there, you can see over here there's actually several components here that are shown up, that are in the hidden state. Now if you want to go back to that assembly, we can go ahead and turn those back on. So I can click here on the assembly itself and go ahead and click on "open part", or open the assemblies; go ahead and open up that assembly. Now over here on the left, you can see all the components that have been hidden. There's also a pretty cool tool up here under "assembly" called "show hidden components". Go ahead and click on that one there. And that going to go ahead and show everything that is currently hidden, which…

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