Assemblies - 2D details - hidden lines

Presently any Assembly of groups that we detail is showing hidden lines irrespective of detailstyle settings.

We are able to control the viewing of hidden lines in single parts and groups via the detailstyle settngs, but with Assemblies we are not able to turn off hidden lines although it is set to not show in the detailstyle.

Assemblies (a collection of groups) is new to us and the complexity of the Assembly means we must not show hidden lines, how is this possible?

Regards.

  • Thanks for your quick responses so far, I believe we have the answer.

    We had no intention of including dimensions on what is essentially a shop bolted assembly, upon turning dimensions on we are now able to control the hidden lines.

    I am not able to determine any logical path to this result, it just worked.

    Also, detailstyle was filtered to Assemblies, this also must remain for full control over hidden lines.

    Regards.

  • Please ignore comments above, we are getting inconsistent results regarding the display of hidden lines in assemblies.

    Two things appear to be at the centre of the problem:

    1. Dialogeus are set to automatic update so changes made in the detailstyle sometimes update, sometimes require multiple forced update, so a change to any setting in the detailstyle may or may not turn off hidden lines as it updates.

    2. 2D Display/Common/Hidden edges appears to be conflicting with 2D Dispay/Views/Object dispay filter settings. The filters for line display are not working at all. 

    I do not understand how the two methods for hiding hidden lines are to be used in conjunction with each other, some guidance in this area may help us resolve this issue.

    Note also that if we place the assembly detailblock on a drawing with no hidden lines, an update to the drawing will bring back hidden lines and subsequent update will again hide hidden lines.

    Regards.

  • I am interested in hearing from someone who has had success with creating 'Assembly' drawings where hidden lines are not shown. So far we have found it is not posible.

    Regards,

  • Hi dnd@ods,

    the example I posted was of two Groups combined into an Assembly. Seems to work 

    line display is 'from configuration' perhaps if you set the linetypes within the detail style it doesn't work?

    Hidden lines are intrinsic to the object, so if the hidden lines are on their own layer then the layer state will influence as well?

  • Hi dnd,

    I have also tested and created one Assembly consists of 4 Groups and i can able to hide the Hidden lines when you uncheck the Hidden lines as Mike mentioned.

    May be you can share your file so that we can better investigate. Also do let us know in which version you are working?

    Looking forward to your update.

    Regards,
    Sandip Kar
    Product Engineer - Bentley Systems