Invisible Brush

[Haneef Tayob]

Had this idea of an 'invisible brush'...
Whilst in a 3-d window, one often would like to see behind certain objects, such as a roof, wall or ceiling. One can do this with layers, layersets or the selection tool, but sometime one just needs one item to be turned off for a particular view at a particular moment.
If one could click on an object with the 'invisible brush' which can momentarily make it disappear of turn into a wireframe, this could work. Everything can be reset one we leave the 3d view.

[Anonymous]

Delete then Undo.

Yes, it has limitations and risks.

[Barry Kelly]

Or safer than deleting.

Select all in the 3D window.
Un-select what you don't want to see.
Right click and choose "Show selection in 3D".
You will now see everything except what you un-selected.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Barry wrote:
Or safer than deleting.

Select all in the 3D window.
Un-select what you don't want to see.
Right click and choose "Show selection in 3D".
You will now see everything except what you un-selected.

I believe that the reverse order of choice is convenient. I'm so doing.

First select the items that you want to hide.
Then select all the elements of the frame, hold down the "Snift". Thus, the selection is inverted.
Press F5.

[Barry Kelly]

Valery wrote:
I believe that the reverse order of choice is convenient. I'm so doing.

First select the items that you want to hide.
Then select all the elements of the frame, hold down the "Snift". Thus, the selection is inverted.
Press F5.

This would work also unless you are zoomed in and can't see the entire model on the screen.
Then you would have to zoom out to select all elements.

If you select all first you can use the key board shortcut (CTRL+A or mac equivalent) and then just unselect (shift-click) what you don't want.

Barry.

[Haneef Tayob]

I know someone who's boss couldn't draw on Archicad, but could call up the 3d window. He'd then move element up down and out of the way to see things. They dreaded this, because he'd unravel all their work

[Haneef Tayob]

The idea of an 'invisible brush' could also be taken through to Virtual Building Explorer. Switching off layers just to see behind something is not very intuitive.

[Anonymous]

Good idea!