Creating Display Groups by Custom Name

You can create display groups with names of your choice. These custom-named display groups are convenient for reuse, eliminating the need to recreate them every time. When you make edits to named display groups, the changes are applied instantly to all plots or to a specific plot of your choice. When you create new contour, isocontour, symbol, or color code plots, you can select the named display group to apply the changes.

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About Display Groups
  1. Click the model, and select from the context toolbar that appears.
  2. Click from the display groups context toolbar to open the Named Group dialog box.

    Alternatively, you can click Display Groups from the Display section of the action bar, and then click Create new display group .

  3. In the Display Group dialog box, do the following:
    1. Enter a Name for the display group.

      The new custom-named display group appears in the Display Groups dialog box, in the tree, and in the Named Groups tab of the Feature Manager.

    2. Set the Initial state by choosing an existing display group or Show all.

      The initial state sets the starting characteristics of your new display group. If you select an existing group, your new group uses the same characteristics. If you select Show all, the initial state is based on the whole model.

    3. Optional: Select Apply new display group to current plot to apply the filters from the display group you are now creating to the active plot.

      Note: You can also apply this option to any display group later by clicking in the Display Groups dialog box or by selecting Apply to current plot from the Feature Manager or the specification tree.

  4. In the Display Groups dialog box, select Display groups from the Item options.
    The Display Groups dialog box displays all of the custom-named display groups you have assigned to your model.
  5. Optional: Filter the items by specifying name criteria in the Filter field.
    The items that satisfy your selection method and filtering criteria are displayed. The number of matching items is displayed in the top portion of the dialog box. You can sort the list of items by clicking the table heading.
  6. Select Highlight to highlight the results in the model.
  7. Use the Boolean operators at the bottom of the dialog box to customize the selected items. The following options are available:
    OptionDescription
    Replace your display group and display all entities in the current viewport.
    Note: Replace All works for model parts and elements only. It does not show or hide the display of coordinate systems.
    Hide all the model components that are displayed in the current display group and display all the model components that were hidden.
    Note: The Invert display operator works for model parts and elements only. It does not show or hide the display of coordinate systems.
    The elements displayed change according to your selection.
  8. Use the Boolean operators at the top of the dialog box to customize the selected items. The following options are available:
    OptionDescription
    Replace the current viewport contents with your selection.
    Add your selection to the current viewport contents.
    Remove your selection from the current viewport contents. If your selection includes one or more elements or surfaces, the nodes connected to those items are also removed, provided that you have not specifically operated to include those nodes in the display group.
    Display only those items common to your selection and the display in the current viewport.
    Display only model components that are either in your selection or in the current viewport but not in both.
    The elements displayed change according to your selection.
  9. Optional: Click the Summary tab to review your selections.

    If named display groups are used with the Replace operator, the named group's sequence of operations are listed under Selection Operations. If named groups are used with Boolean operators other than Replace, the named group's sequence of operations appear in an editable Selection Group subtree under Selection Operations.

  10. Click Close.

The named display group is created and is editable from the Feature Manager and the specification tree. Using context menus, you can Set as default, Delete, Edit, Rename, and Duplicate named display groups.