Hide element!

[Anonymous]

hi all, How can I hide a singe element and not the entire layer?
is this possible at all?

Habi

[Anonymous]

Can you explain a little more please? What are you trying to achieve?

[Anonymous]

sure, I am trying to hide a spasific element say a wall or a slab rather than the entire layer on which that wall or slab resides on.

[TomWaltz]

I think Stuart meant why are you trying to do this? What are you actually trying to achieve by doing this?

[Anonymous]

What I am trying to do is model two elements one on top of the other.
I would like to be able to hide the top element to adjust the lower element.

[Anonymous]

habiatuq wrote:
hi all, How can I hide a singe element and not the entire layer?
is this possible at all?

Habi

Habi,
You will probably need to create a special layer for the "single element" and hide that layer when you need to. I do this for 3D wall detail that I need to show in elevation or perspective views and not on floor plans etc.

HTH,
Dan K

[Anonymous]

Is this just a temporary thing, so you can edit 2nd element then bring first one back? Or are you just having trouble selecting the 2nd element? (In AC10 use TAB to cycle thru' available selections) Can you move top element a fixed distance, then move it back after adjusting other one? Otherwise Layers are definitely the way to go.
I miss the AutoCAD "OOPS" command. You could delete an item (or items), perform all sorts of other commands, then OOPS brought back the last item (or items) that were deleted.

[Djordje]

habiatuq wrote:
What I am trying to do is model two elements one on top of the other.
I would like to be able to hide the top element to adjust the lower element.

I would take that area of the project in a thin marquee and work in appropriate 3D view ...

[Anonymous]

thank you all for your tips. For now, dedicating a temp "HIDE" layer would work the best for this particular tsak.

thanks again.