Viewing Sub-Trees

This task explains how to hide or show all the sub-trees that have been opened using the Open Sub-Tree contextual command.
This command is not available when working with the Drafting or V4 Integration workbench.
This scenario assumes that you are already familiar with the Open Sub-Tree contextual command.

Open the Seat.CATProduct and the Select.CATProduct documents.

 

Single window

  1. Activate the Select.CATProduct window.

  2. With the specification tree visible, click the part instance named "Part1" then right-click and select Open Sub-Tree.

  3. Select the part instance named "Part1.1" then right-click and select Open Sub-Tree.

    The result looks like this:

  4. Click the View menu. You can see that a check mark is displayed next to the Sub-Trees command as shown below:

    When the Sub-Trees command is selected, all the sub-trees opened for the current window are displayed.

  5. Clear Sub-Trees to turn off the display of sub-trees:

    If you select the View menu again, you see that no check mark is displayed anymore which means that all the sub-trees linked to the current window are hidden:

  6. Select Sub-Trees: the two sub-trees you opened previously are now shown.
 

Multi-window

  1. Activate the Seat.CATProduct window.

  2. Select Window > Tile Vertically.

  3. Activate the Seat.CATProduct window. You notice that the two sub-trees opened for the Select.CATProduct window are not displayed since sub-trees are visible only for the current window, i.e. Seat.CATProduct right now:

    You can also see that when you select View > Sub-Trees, the command is grayed out because no sub-tree has been opened yet for this window.

  4. With the specification tree visible, select the part instance named "seat" then right-click and select Open Sub-Tree. A new window containing the sub-tree of "seat" is displayed and the Sub-Trees command is now activated in the View menu:

     

  5. Activate the Select.CATProduct window. The two sub-trees opened for this window are now displayed:

  6. Still with the Select.CATProduct window active, click the View menu then clear Sub-Trees to turn off the display of sub-trees in the current window:

  7. Now, if you activate the Seat.CATProduct window again, you can see that the sub-tree opened for this window is displayed:

    The reason is that View > Sub-Trees only affects the current window. Therefore, you can work simultaneously with a window in which sub-trees are shown and with a window in which sub-trees are hidden.

More about the Sub-Trees command
 
  • Running Open Sub-Tree for the first time automatically selects Sub-Trees and displays a sub-tree window.
    However, when sub-trees are already hidden, Sub-Trees remains cleared when you run Open Sub-Tree and only the last opened sub-tree is visible.
    The reason is that the Sub-Trees command impacts only sub-trees created at the time the command is run.
  • Selecting View > Specifications has no effect on sub-trees because this command hides/shows only the specification tree of the current window.