About the Visibility Manager

The Visibility Manager displays visualization options for the simulation entities in your simulation. You can hide or show different kinds of entities (geometries, meshes) or simulation categories (model, scenario, results) while you are working in a simulation.

See Also
Managing the Visualization of Simulation Entities

The Visibility Manager displays visualization options as action icons. You can use these action icons to hide, show, show current, and show contributing entities. For example, in the image below, the nodes and elements of the excavator model are hidden:

However, in the following image, the Visibility Manager settings display the nodes and elements of the excavator:

An information label helps you keep track of the current action. In the image above, the information label states, "Nodes and elements are now shown".

In addition, when the Visibility Manager command is active, the context menus now show revisited entries; The following image shows the context menu choices when the selected object is a FEM: