View filters
View filters can be created for the following view types:
- Projection views (front, top, bottom, left, right and rear)
- Isometric views
- Section views, section cuts and auxiliary views
When creating view filters, remember the following points:
- You cannot change the filter type (Display, Mask or Equivalent) once it has been created.
- Filters do not change the graphic properties of elements in the filtered view, they simply overload them. This means that filters cannot show elements that are hidden in the 3D model, nor can they make pickable elements which are not pickable in the 3D model.
- More generally, filters conform to the standard behavior of elements. Refer to the specific User's Guide for more information.
- When pasting to another layout a view to which view filters are applied, the filter is not pasted (therefore, the view is not filtered).
- When editing a multi-instantiated part layout in the context of a product, only the edited instance is affected by the filter, and only the sub-elements of the part reference can be filtered.
- Filtered elements may be impacted by the result of an operation (such
as activating/deactivating the elements, changing its Hide, Low Intensity
or No Pick property, cutting, deleting, etc.). Most operations are
automatically supported and you do not need to perform an update.
However, after having selected a feature or a Geometrical Set in the context of a Change Geometrical Set operation, you need to perform a manual update (using the Local Update command which is available when right-clicking the layout, sheet or view). - You can launch Edit > Selection Sets and Edit > Search while the Edit Filter dialog box is running. However, only filterable elements are actually selected. You can also use the power input mode to launch a search query. For more information on selection sets, search operations and the power input mode, refer to the Infrastructure User's Guide.
Filterable elements
You can filter the following elements:
- Part Design: xy plane, yz plane, zx plane, PartBody, Body at the first level, Geometrical Set (under the root part or contained in another Geometrical Set), Ordered Geometrical Set of first level, User Defined Feature (only contained in a Geometrical Set).
- Functional Tolerancing & Annotation: Annotation, Annotations Set, Capture Callout, Constructed geometry, Datum, Deviation, Dimension, Distance Between two points, Geometrical Tolerance, Note, View.
- Generative Shape Design: elements contained in a Geometrical Set
(under the root part or contained in another Geometrical Set), and listed
below.
3D Curve Offset
Adaptive Sweep
Affinity
Axis line
Axis to Axis
Bead
Blend
Boundary
Bump
Circle
Combine
Conic
Connect Curve
Corner
Curve (Isolated)
Curve Smooth
Cylinder
Datum Curve
Datum Point
Datum Surface
Develop
Diabolo
Edge Fillet
Extract
Extrapolate
Extremum
Extremum Polar
Extrude
Face-Face Fillet
Fill
Healing
Helix
Hole
Hole Curve
Intersection
Inverse
Isoparametric Curve
Join
Junction
Law
Line
Mating Flange
Multi Output Feature
Multiple Extract
Multi selection surface
Near
Offset
Outputs from MultiOutput
Parallel Curve
Pattern of Features circular
Pattern of Features rectangular
Plane
Plane between
Plane set
Point
Polyline
Projection
Reflect Line
Revolve
Rotate
Rough Offset
Scaling
Shape FilletShape morphing
Sketch
Sketch output feature (both types)
Sphere
Spine
Spiral
Spline
Split
Surface (isolated)
Sweep
Symmetry
Translate
Trim
Tritangent Fillet
Unfold
Untrim
Variable Fillet
Variable Offset
Wrap Curve
Warp Surface
- 2D Layout for 3D Design: design views belonging to the same layout.
Non-filterable elements
In general, you cannot filter any element that is not listed as being filterable (in the preceding paragraph). Among these, you cannot filter the following elements:
- Bodies or Ordered Geometrical Sets which are not at the first level.
- Elements contained in a PartBody or in an Ordered Geometrical Set.
- Part features, CAA features, Volumes, 3D Measure elements.
- Bodies that are the object of a boolean operation.
- Design views belonging to another layout, isometric views belonging
to the same or another layout.
The Default filter
A Default filter exists in any layout and may be applied automatically to all newly created views (refer to About newly created views below for more information). This filter specifies only that the view should be hidden from the 2D background (the Invisible option for 2D background views is set to Yes for each existing view): this means that in each view, by default, you only see the view content and the 3D background.
The purpose of this Default filter is to avoid overloading the layout with unnecessary data. Indeed, it is only in certain specific cases that you will want the 2D background to be displayed (when creating section views for example). You can always delete this filter, or apply another filter to any view in the layout.
Equivalent filters
When creating a view from a FTA capture, the capture definition is saved in a layout as an equivalent filter (mask filter type). This is the only way to create an equivalent filter.
An equivalent filter is associative with its reference FTA capture. A single filter can be created from a FTA capture. If several 2D layout views are created from the same FTA capture, the same equivalent filter is re-used to filter the created views.
Once created, the filters equivalent to FTA captures are accessible from the Layout View Filters dialog box and can be applied to any kind of layout views. These filters are not editable, but you can change their content by changing their reference capture.
Refer to Creating a filtered view from FTA.
Newly created views
New views are created according to the options selected in Tools > Options > Mechanical Design > 2D Layout for 3D Design > View Creation tab > Filter category. Refer to View Creation for more information.