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Hide Operator

With the Hide Operator you can hide elements you don't want to see. Many Operators will skip automatically hidden elements so that you don't accidentally modify them. Hiding parts of a model you are not working on is very important if you need to fix and work on details of complex objects.

Hide Operator works the same as Selection Operator when it comes to choose which parts need to be hidden. You can drag freely the mouse on the screen to add elements to your selection:

• When the Circular Selector: is active, a circle will be drawn and you will be able to hide elements by dragging it on the Scene View. You can also change the size of the circle with the buttons O and P on the keyboard.
• When the Rectangular Selector: is active, you can drag on the Scene View a rectangle and everything touched by the rectangle will be hidden.

For both the two selector, you will be able to choose between this two options:

• Part: elements will be hidden when the circle/rectangle cover even a little part of them.
• Full: elements will be hidden only when the circle/rectangle cover them entirely. The algorithm here takes into account only the visible part of edges and polygons, so it’s more correct to say that the element is selected when its visible part is covered by the tool.

Very Important!!: in this operator the Circular and Rectangular Selectors do not extend from polygons to edges and from edges to vertices (unlike what happens with Selection Operator). So, for instance, you can hide a polygon without its vertices being hidden and viceversa.

Common Hiding Actions

There are a few hiding actions available here, and also available in other Operators:

• Hide Selected: Hide any selected element.
• Hide Unselected: Hide everything which has not been selected (opposite of Hide Selected).
• Show All: shows all hidden elements.
• Hide Invisible: hide elements which are not directly visible in the Scene View, the ones watching on the opposite side of the screen.

Furthermore, in this operator you have the following action available :

• Cancel Hidden: Remove from the model everything which has been hidden. If you have hidden vertices any edge or polygon attached to the vertex will be removed as well, even if they are not hidden.

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