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Associative Hide
Mechanical structure is all about reuse, especially reuse of components in an
assembly to show multiple instances of a component and reuse of component
views in the assembly and in the part detail. Component view instances are
often obscured in the assembly, sometimes the same view is even obscured
differently in different instances. This requires a mechanism to make a folder
or component view instance partially or fully hidden without effecting other
view instances. Use Associative hide (AMSHIDE) to do that.
Basics of AMSHIDE
In the next exercise, you create a hide situation between two folders.
To create a hide situation
1 Open the file Tut_AMSHIDE.dwg in the tutorials folder.
Ribbon
Home tab Draw Tools panel Hide Situation
drop-down Create.
Structure tab Hide panel Create Associative
Hide Situation.
Modify Associative Hide Create Associative
Hide Situation
Menu
AMSHIDECommand
NOTE The path to the tutorials folder is;
Windows Vista: C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Autodesk\ACADM
2010\Acadm\Tutorial
Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared
Documents\Autodesk\ACADM 2010\Acadm\Tutorial
The drawing contains three instances of a folder, where two overlap each
other.
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