Deactivating Your Hybrid Design Environment

For specific industrial scenarios, you may prefer to work in a traditional environment so as to restrict the location of surface and shape features to geometrical sets or ordered geometrical sets. To restore a traditional environment, you just need to deactivate the hybrid design setting.

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Hybrid Design
Clear the Enable hybrid design inside part bodies and bodies check box under Me > Preferences > Common Preferences > Object Properties > 3D Shape > Infrastructure > 3D Shape Infrastructure > Hybrid Design.

You can now work in a non-hybrid design environment.

Important: If you select Enable hybrid design inside part bodies and bodies check box, the capability then applies to all the bodies you will create in your CATIA session (and not only to the new representation you are opening). Consequently, if your session contains 3D shapes already including traditional bodies, the new bodies you will create subsequently in these documents will possibly include wireframe and surface elements. To facilitate your design, It is therefore recommended that you do not change this setting during your session.