Creating Display Groups by Types

Open the Display Groups context toolbar using one of the following methods:

Click the model, and select from the context toolbar that appears.
From the Display section of the action bar, click Display Groups .

Click

from the display groups context toolbar.

The Display Groups dialog box appears and opens to the Select tab

.

From the Item options, select Types.

The Display Groups dialog box displays all of the assembly components in your model that contain entity types.

From the Method options, choose one of the following set selection methods:

Choose Connector types to display every connector type in the model.
Choose Constraint types to display every constraint type defined in the model.
Note: Constraint types can be visualized with associated elements, parts, or alone with no associations.
Choose Element types to display every internal element set used in the model.

The main portion of the dialog box displays a list of every connector type, constraint type, or element type used in your model.

Optional: Filter the items by specifying name criteria in the Filter field. You can use wildcards (*) to specify part of a name.

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.

With Highlight checked, highlight the rows corresponding to the items that you want to display or hide. You can use multiselection to toggle multiple rows at the same time.

Optional: Toggle visibility of the item on

and off

.

The off visibility toggle switch hides all elements of a specific type, and hides any nodes that are completely contained within hidden types. This translates to the following behavior for individual elements and nodes:

An individual element is not visible if its element type is filtered out.
An individual node is not be visible if all the elements containing the node have their element types filtered out.

The on and off visibility toggle switches override the boolean operatrors, such as the add , remove , and replace controls.

Note: Constraints (DCOUP, KCOUP, and ties) are visible only if one or more of the adjoining elements are also visible. Connectors and some point elements are not visible by default. Make them visible to view constraints that link them.

Use the Boolean operators at the bottom of the dialog box to customize the selected items. The following options are available:

Option	Description
	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.

Use the Boolean operators at the top of the dialog box to customize the selected items. The following options are available:

Option	Description
	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.

Optional: Click the Summary tab

to review your selections.

Click Close.