2012

Ribbon: View tab ➤ Visual Styles panel ➤ Hide
Menu: View ➤ Hide
Summary
When you use VPOINT or VIEW to create a 3D view of your drawing, a
wireframe is displayed in the current viewport. All lines are present, including
those hidden by other objects. HIDE eliminates the hidden lines from the
screen.
HIDE considers the following to be opaque surfaces that hide objects: circles,
text, regions, wide polyline segments, the extruded edges of objects with
nonzero thickness, 2D solids, and (when working with AutoCAD drawings)
3D solids, traces, 3D faces, and polygon meshes.
If they are extruded, circles, solids, traces, and wide polyline segments are
treated as solid objects with top and bottom faces. You cannot use HIDE on
objects whose layers have been frozen; however, you can use HIDE on objects
whose layers have been turned off.
To hide text created with MTEXT or TEXT, the HIDETEXT system variable
must be set to 1 or the text must be assigned a thickness value.
When using the HIDE command, if the INTERSECTIONDISPLAY system
variable is on, face-to-face intersections of 3D surfaces are displayed as
polylines.
If the DISPSILH system variable is on, HIDE displays 3D solid objects with
silhouette edges only. It won't show the internal edges produced by objects
that have facets.
If the HIDETEXT system variable is off, HIDE ignores text objects when
producing the hidden view. Text objects are always displayed regardless of
whether they are obscured by other objects, and objects obscured by text
objects are unaffected.
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