AutoCAD Civil 3D provides an easy-to-use feature for temporarily hiding and displaying selected objects in your drawing.
Use this operation when you want to focus on individual areas of large drawings and need to display or hide some of the objects.
Do the following:
- Create an object selection set to hide or display.
- Fine-tune the selection set by adding objects.
- Save a drawing with the visibility settings you have selected.
Isolating Objects in External References
When you are working with external references, you can hide and isolate objects. Consider the following points:
- You can isolate an external reference within a host drawing as a whole by selecting it and isolating at.
- You can isolate individual objects within an external reference by opening the external reference, isolating and hiding objects as needed, saving the external reference drawing, and then reloading the external reference.
- You cannot isolate or hide objects in an external reference while editing it with REFEDIT in the host drawing. You need to use XOPEN and save the desired Hide/Isolate settings within the external reference.
- You cannot display hidden objects in an external reference while editing it with REFEDIT in the host drawing. You need to use XOPEN and save the desired Hide/Isolate settings within the external reference.
Saving Isolated Objects
Save a drawing in which some objects are isolated for viewing while others are hidden. The next time you open the drawing, it is displayed with the isolation settings you defined.
For example, you could save a specific view setting to distribute the file to a contractor who needs to see only a specific part of the drawing. You could also save a specific view setting in a drawing that is used as an external reference within another drawing.
To save a drawing with isolated objects, create the appropriate object selection set. Save the drawing. The isolation settings are saved in the drawing and are displayed accordingly when you reopen the drawing.
Note: If you want to distribute a drawing with isolated objects, make sure that you and the recipient of the drawing are working with the same version of AutoCAD Civil 3D. A recipient who is working with an earlier version of AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD, or Object Enabler is not able to display the hidden objects. In this case, end the object isolation before saving and distributing the drawing.