Visibility toolbar > Solid Display Mode

NOTE - no Visibility menu

This button has two states.

Icon-ShowSketchinEditor

Visibility toolbar > Show Part-Outlines and Sketches.

Icon-HidePartOutlinesSketches

Visibility toolbar > Hide Part-Outlines and Sketches.

Part-Editor:

Show or Hide all sketch-elements, Profiles, Part-Outlines and Joints in the active and different Mechanism-Editors

Mechanism-Editor

Show or Hide sketch-elements, Profiles, Part-Outlines and Joints in different Mechanism-Editors.

Note: To change the colour of the 'other' Part-Outlines and Sketches, use Edit menu > Application-Settings > Graphics tab > Graphic Options | 'Background Sketch'

TOP-TIPS :  MD14+

When you show Part-Outlines in different Mechanism-Editors you can:

Identify Parts

•Single-Click a Part-Outline [or Joint, or CAD-Line] to identify in the Selection-Window and the Assembly-Tree the name of the Part [or Joint, or CAD-Line] and the Mechanism-Editor to which it is a child.
•Single-Click a sketch-element to identify in the Selection-Window the name of the sketch-element and to which Part the sketch-element is a child.

Jump-to Mechanism-Editors

•Double-Click a Part-Outline or sketch-element in a different Mechanism-Editor to 'jump' to the Mechanism-Editor in which the Part or sketch-element is a child.

See also: Edit menu [toolbar] Application-Settings > Graphics tab > display Colours  > Background sketches

GA-SketchinMechanismShow

To Show Part-Outlines and sketches in other Mechanisms:

1: Click Visibility toolbar > Show Part-Outlines and Sketches

1s-red is a Part-Outline in a different mechanism.

2s is a Line in a different mechanism.

GA-SketchinMechanismNOShow

To Hide Part-Outlines and sketches in other Mechanisms, again:

1: Click Visibility toolbar > Show Part-Outlines and Sketches

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