BIM Tools Weekly

- [Instructor] This one's pretty easy and it's pretty obvious. But to be honest, I didn't really know about this function until I noticed a coworker of mine using it a couple of months ago. It's temporary hide/isolate. So the idea is, you can work in a plan and you can just temporarily hide things, or isolate things. Once you're done, you can just reset the view and you're all set. So I'm gonna jump into any model that I want to hide or isolate a category or an element.

The first thing we need to do is just select whatever the annoying element is. In this case, it's this stupid floor. So I'm gonna select my floor. Now on my view control toolbar, I'm gonna click on my little sunglasses here. And I am going to hide category. Now we'll see that this little cyan-colored border is around our view, temporary hide/isolate.

And of course, if I don't wanna see maybe dimensions, select a dimension, click my temporary hide/isolate, and I want to hide category. Dimensions are gone. This is a popular one, section markers. I'll grab these and I will hide the category. Now I can work away 'cause notice it says temporary hide/isolate, so we know that we are in a temporary hide/isolate mode.

But when we click the sunglasses again, if we want to exit it, we can physically apply this to the view or we can reset the temporary hide/isolate to bring back the original view itself. So in this case, I'm gonna go reset temporary hide/isolate and it's back to where we started. So that's easy and quick but very, very useful.