How to keep layer items from highlighting

Discussion in 'Pro/Engineer & Creo Elements/Pro' started by Janes, Oct 26, 2007.

  1. Janes

    Janes Guest

    By the time you get to the drawing level in Pro/e, you've crammed part, assembly, component and drawing layers into the layer tree. Even assuming you have all those layers blanked, they require a lot of overhead. Seems like I spent half a day not too long ago trying to unblank particular datam layers, only to find that every time I clicked on the layer name, it would red highlight a thousand datums or coordinate systems while I waited helplessly for it to finish (minutes later). Well, I finally figured out how to prevent this drain on the overhead. In the layer tree Settings tab, uncheck Layer Items. No more highlighting of every item on the layer and changing layer status is a snap, especially useful on large assemblies.

    David Janes
     
    Janes, Oct 26, 2007
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  2. Janes

    John.R.Wade Guest

    Nice, thanks Dave.
     
    John.R.Wade, Oct 26, 2007
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  3. Janes

    graminator Guest

    There's another display setting for drawings that I only recently
    adopted. It delays the repaint of your views until you hit the
    "view>update" button. I forget what it is but it's in your dtl or
    config.pro file. It used to be that I would blank a layer in the
    drawing then I would have to sit there while half a dozen views
    regenerate, then realize I wanted to blank a different layer....
    unblank that one, blank the other one, each time wait for it to
    repaint. Bla.
     
    graminator, Oct 26, 2007
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  4. Janes

    Janes Guest

    There's another display setting for drawings that I only recently
    adopted. It delays the repaint of your views until you hit the
    "view>update" button. I forget what it is but it's in your dtl or
    config.pro file. It used to be that I would blank a layer in the
    drawing then I would have to sit there while half a dozen views
    regenerate, then realize I wanted to blank a different layer....
    unblank that one, blank the other one, each time wait for it to
    repaint. Bla.

    Yes, thanks, that could be very useful, in certain cases. It's the config option auto_regen_views set to NO.

    David Janes
     
    Janes, Oct 27, 2007
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