(SW-2024 v5) I have some background reference images contained within sketches of a part file. For some reason I’m having difficulty making Configurations to suppress / un-suppress the sketch so I can toggle the image on & off as required. I’m doing it manually in the tree. The image sketch does not drive or control anything downstream in the tree. I cant see a way to accomplish this in Display state either. Am I missing something obvious?
Sketches are also controlled with this under the view hide show.
are you looking to show them in the drawing on on the parts?
Hmmm… it seems like the simple act of asking a dumb question opens the path for a solution. I was suppressing the sketch icon on left side in my ‘hide configuration’ but in the ‘unhide’ it was still showing the sketch/picture in view. But when I expanded the panel to expose the hide/show column, I noticed it was visibility off even though it was no longer suppressed. Now it seems to work with bot hide & show configurations once that was fixed. Thanks for the nudge!
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If all you want to do is hide and show sketches I’d suggest using display states instead of configurations. That will generally result a smaller file size and work just as well.
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Ah, this is where it gets interesting. Yes, if I create a display state inside the Part the hide/show sketch works just fine. I can easily toggle between show or hide display states.
But when that same Part is within an assembly (and no special display states so as not confuse things) & I try to create the ‘show’ display state there, it does not seem to want to revert to the default display state (hide). I think that was why I went the configuration route. I kind of need the image on/off capability as much at the assembly level. I did originally make a dummy part with nothing in it except the sketch images & then, no solid bodies. I think that allowed me suppress/un-suppress, but I figured that was no different than if the sketches were within a normal Part. Hopefully this rambling makes sense.
Yes, I think suppressing the sketch/image using configurations is not considered good practice. I was careful not to reference any geometry within the sketch that holds the images. But I do think it takes a bit more in resources.
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