Isolate and Hide Objects

It is now possible to select any number of entities in the drawing and then isolate them from other objects. In this way, you can perform editing on these specifically selected or ‘isolated’ objects without seeing or affecting other un-selected entities in the drawing.

The Isolate tool is particularly useful in a complicated drawing when we are trying to work with a subset of the drawing. When you're done, editing the isolated objects, simply click the ‘End Isolation’ tool and the drawing re-displays those objects which had not been previously isolated.

There are three options for isolation:

Isolate Objects

Location in Menu: Edit > Isolate Objects

Use the Isolate Objects tool to temporarily hide all objects in your drawing other than those you select with this tool.

End Isolation

Location in Menu: Edit > End Isolation

Click End isolation tool to show all the objects that were hidden temporarily.

Hide Object

Location in Menu: Edit > Hide Objects

The Hide Objects tool temporarily hides selected object in the drawing. To use this tool, select the object(s) in your drawing you wish to hide and then click Hide Objects. To have hidden objects reappear, click the End Isolation tool.

Select object and click on Hide object.

it is possible to show the hidden objects in Selection Information Palette in “All Drawing” mode.

Inverse Isolation

Location in Menu: Edit > Inverse Isolation

Inverse Isolation tool makes the hidden objects visible and vice versa. This works when you have used either of the commands from Hide or Isolate Objects.

The file with objects hidden state can now be saved with the objects' hidden state in XCW format. This setting is available in XCW Save As setup.