Deactivating Your Hybrid Design Environment

  For specific industrial scenarios, you may prefer to work in a traditional environment so as to restrict the location of surface and shape features to geometrical sets or ordered geometrical sets. To restore a traditional environment, you just need to deactivate a dedicated setting as explained below:

Accessing the Hybrid Design Setting

To access and deactivate the Hybrid Design setting :

  1. Select Tools > Options.
    The Options dialog box is displayed.

  2. From the Infrastructure category, select the Part Infrastructure sub-category in the left-hand box.

  3. Click the Part Document tab and go to the Hybrid Design category.

  4. Just deselect Enable hybrid design inside part bodies and bodies which is the default option.
    You can now work in a non-hybrid design environment.

Recommendation

If you select Enable hybrid design inside part bodies and bodies, the capability then applies to all the bodies you will create in your CATIA session (and not only to the new CATPart document you are opening). Consequently, if your session contains CATPart documents already including traditional bodies, the new bodies you will create subsequently in these documents will possibly include wireframe and surface elements.

To facilitate your design, It is therefore recommended that you do not change this setting during your session.

Graphic Representations of Bodies and Solid Bodies

The colors of body and solid body icons change when you switch from a design environment to a non-hybrid design one and vice versa. Such a behavior ensures that the types of bodies you are handling can be quickly identified.

Although it is preferable not to change your environment type in the course of your session, you should keep in mind both cases discussed below:

Case 1: activating a hybrid design environment

When activating a hybrid design environment in the course of your session:

  • the bodies you create subsequently are identified with green icons in the specification tree.
  • If your CATPart document already contains solid bodies (bodies that cannot include wireframe nor surface elements), the application changes the green icons to gray icons:

Case 2: deactivating  a hybrid design environment

When deactivating a hybrid design environment in the course of your session:

  • the solid bodies you create subsequently are identified with green icons in the specification tree.
  • If your CATPart document already contains bodies, the application changes the green icons to yellow icons.
    Hybrid environment

    As a solid body, PartBody's icon is identified with the gray color
    Non-hybrid environment

    Body.1's icon turns yellow