Display Bar

This vertical bar enables to access rapidly display options for elements in the working area:

• On the top is the Hide/Show details[1] and dialog of filters [2], which enables to hide geometric elements by type, by color, by layer, etc.

• Below are the display tabs for elements considered as ‘major’, namely the solid [3], the stock [4], the symbols (vices, clamps…)[5], and the tools[6]. Those buttons enable to hide/display those elements and to manage their transparency with a single click.

The display tabs of major elements are contextual, they appear only if elements do exist.

Also, the filters defined have priority on the display tabs: if one element is filtered, its rapid display button is not accessible!

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You can watch a video on use of Filters at the bottom of page: Click here

Pin the filter so it stays visible on screen.

3 main geometric tabs

• Elements & Colors: hide elements or a specific color (e.g. all blue elements).

• Layers & Planes: hide elements belonging to selected layers or planes.

• Lines (Types & Thickness): hide elements by line type or thickness.

Filter by element family

• 2D

• 3D

• Machining

• Workplanes

Cancel: resets all filters for the current filter type.
Invert filter: inverts the display of the elements that have been filtered.
Example: filter by blue, then invert to display only blue elements.

Show only the filtered elements:
If checked, filtered elements remain visible but inactive (non selectable).

Cancel all filters:
Resets all filters set in the dialog and also cancels all Hide actions (from the Edit menu and contextual pop‑ups).

You can watch a video demonstrating the ability: Clearing all Filters.

Each type of element has its own icon. The active elements have their icon in color and pressed (in blue). To filter a type of element, for example the dimensions, click the icon and it gets greyed out.

If a 'family' is unchecked: all the elements are visible.

If a 'family' is checked: all the elements are hidden.

A dash is displayed If the elements of a family are either hidden or selected.

For Wire-cut EDM:

In the Dialog of Filters, there is a specific entity for ‘Threading point’, enabling to distinguish them from geometric points.

Click on the color box so that all elements of this color are filtered. A ‘User’ icon appears then, to show the new status.

Special cases:

• 2 colors icon are special because they are always given to one type of element: unbounded elements (line, circle) and dimensions.

• Sometimes, a ‘Warning’ icon appears on one color box. This icon indicates that some elements with this color have been filtered by another kind of filter (type of line, type of element, etc.).

To filter by planes and layers, simply uncheck the corresponding box.

All the elements belonging to the plane or the layer unselected are not accessible anymore.

In the example on the right, all the elements of Layer 1 ‘Wireframe’ are filtered.

Sometimes the ‘2’ of GO2cam appears on one type of element. It shows that an automatic filter is active. The user can cancel this automatic filter and then choose to see or not the element. Consequently, there are 3 levels of filters, let’s explain it with the stock:

Automatic mode: GO2cam filters the stock in geometry menus and shows it in machining.

User mode: the user chooses to see the stock at any time.

User mode: the user chooses to filter the stock at any time.

The automatic filters are applied on several types of elements:

• The lines, filtered in machining,

• The axis, filtered in machining,

• The stock, filtered in geometry,

• The symbols, filtered in geometry.

The systems of axis of planes have another behavior:

In automatic mode, the system of axis of the current plane is always displayed.

In active mode the systems of axis of all the planes are visible,

In inactive mode there is no visible system of axis.

Those elements are the solids, the stock, the symbols (vices, clamps…), and the tools. The display tabs are contextual, they appear only if the elements do exist. They are also dependent of any action in the filters: if an element is filtered, the corresponding display tab disappears!

2 actions are possible on the 4 elements:

• A left click on the element icon enables to hide it (and display it). By default the element is visible, when it is hidden the cloud icon is positioned on it.

Visible

Hidden

• a middle click on the element icon enables to activate transparency. The small arrow becomes green to indicate the change.

By clicking this arrow, either green or blue:

• you can access a slider to adjust transparency intensity.

• The check box is used to toggle the transparency on/off.

• You can also directly click the arrow when it is blue to activate and adjust transparency.

In turning, the slider bars for part and stock also provide access to the defined Section View. The section is always done on the 2 elements at the same time.

You can watch a video about the use of Filters: