How to NOT hide a given object?

Hi, I was wandering if there was a way to tell Cad that he shouldn't hide a given 3d Solid when he hides the lines.

The application would be the following.

I am preparing an explosion drawing of a metal piece. This piece is wrappped around a glass panel. My glass panel is a box, but when i hide the drawing, it hides everything behind it! And sometimes i want to show what is inside one piece and i can't tell CAD not to hide this object.

Anybody? I'd appreciate it.

Explode the glass panel (or recreate the geometry) into simple linework.

Thanks, but i had already tried that... For my glass panel it works properly, but for the metal piece, this exploding transforms the piece into incoherent scattered circles.

And, the glass panel has some perforations, so the exploding messes up there too...

Any other suggestions?

An attached image might help if you can post one. You may need more posts before being able to do so.

I would only explode the glass panel - not the whole model. Can you try a render? You will want to have a glass material applied to the panel.

Nope, i can't upload images yet...

What I am talking about is Two completely different models. One is the glass panel, which theoretically could be exploded. In fact, i've done that to finish quickly the job.

But i've got another one which contains a very complicated and complex piece, with a screw inside. I want the image to show the piece transparent, and the screw hidden. A render won't work because i need a black and white technical image.

It doesn't matter the shape of the metal piece. It is very complex, and exploding a complex geometry leaves almost certanly undesired results.

pardon my english..

What is the end result's purpose? Are you going to end up with a bitmap or a jpeg of the final hide? Will you be adding annotation?

Depending on what your end result is you might try publishing to a DWF, then in the DWF viewer you can apply a transparency to the glass plate, view in realistic, and take a screen shot.

I didn't see your last reply before posting. No need to apologize for your english - it is near perfect.

Do you have any graphics software? If you do a render you could bring it into the graphics program and change it to grey scale.

Another option would be to look at SOLDRAW, SOLVIEW, and SOLPROF to create the view, then edit the resulting hidden lines to show what you want. If your model is complex this could be rather labor intensive.

Also look at flatten, or flatshot.

Am I correct in assuming the command you are using now is HIDE?

Can you cut a hole in the metal plate to provide a window to the screw you want to show? Perhaps using the rev cloud for the perimeter to show that the hole does not realy exist, but is to show the hidden object?

Glen

Can you cut a hole in the metal plate to provide a window to the screw you want to show? Perhaps using the rev cloud for the perimeter to show that the hole does not realy exist, but is to show the hidden object?

 

Glen

Bingo! That should do it.

P.S. I love the quote in your signature. It is a philosophy I abide by. But you would be amazed at how hard I work to be lazy.

The hole is just what i need (that sounded strange...). I aligned the UCS to my isometric view and created a circle so that you have a somewhat resembling X-Ray vision. Then I hide without problems.

Thanks very much for the attention, people.