faster way to hide layers in large asm?

[ClayP]

I am making an interface drawing for a very large assembly on a 32bit machine.


When I try to blank layers (right click on the layer in the layer tree and then click hide)such as "ALL_SURFS" or "ALL_CURVES"my machine bogs down trying to highlight every surface or curve before the task menu comes up to let me click on "Hide". Is there any way to not have it try highlight everything before it will let me blank layers?


Thanks

 

[jason_]

I am making an interface drawing for a very large assembly on a 32bit machine.


When I try to blank layers (right click on the layer in the layer tree and then click hide)such as "ALL_SURFS" or "ALL_CURVES"my machine bogs down trying to highlight every surface or curve before the task menu comes up to let me click on "Hide". Is there any way to not have it try highlight everything before it will let me blank layers?


Thanks

Yes, there are two settings of this type in the layer tree and you should have them both turned off if working in assemblies that large and you can accomplish your work without the highlight feedback. The setting for your immediate need is "Highlight Geometry" turned off. It's inLayer Tree>Show>Highlight Geometry, make sure the check mark is gone. This keeps the features on that layer from highlighting in red when you select on a particular layer.


The model tree has it's own settings as well, "Highlight Model", whenever you select anything in the model tree it highlights on the screen.


"Prehighlighting" needs to be turned off as well, found in the same place. This turns off the blue dynamic highlighting when you drag your cursor over a layer or model tree features/parts/etc.


This is a little confusing but theresanother setting that you can turn off, "Prehighlight". This turns off the blue highlighting when you drag your cursor over graphics window features/parts/etc. This shouldn't be turned off unless you are good at using Query Select.


So, basically there are four settings. Two (one for each tree) to control selection (red) highlighting and one (forboth trees) to control dynamic (blue) highlighting. And one more that controls dynamic highlighting from the graphics window.


If you want Pro/E to start up with these settings you need to create your own config.pro and drop these in it:


prehighlight no


highlight_geometry no


highlight_layer_items no


prehighlight_tree no


Think this last one is defaulted to no.



Edited by: jason_

 

[ClayP]

thanks a bunch jason - you've saved me a lot of time!