From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Engineering Drawings

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Hiding and showing drawing elements

Hiding and showing drawing elements - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Engineering Drawings

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Hiding and showing drawing elements

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- Inside of our SolidWorks Drawing View sometimes we want to hide and show various drawing elements In this particular example, I have an assembly with multiple components and let's say, just for a special instruction drawing that I want to make, I want to hide this bottom component. It's pretty simple to hide it, but a little bit complicated if you want to show it again. So, to hide it, I can simply right-click on the component, go up to the component area of the menu and then where is says "Show/Hide," go over and I have two options. I can Show Hidden Edges or I can Hide Component. I'm going to click on "Hide Component." And I've now hidden that particular SolidWorks part, but left all the remaining parts in the assembly. So I can thoroughly see the nut that's inside and where this spring ends on the inside. Now, if I want to bring that component back into the view, I can't simply right-click on here and have any…

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