Overview of displaying objects by type

You can display or blank objects in the Graphics view based on their type, occurrence type, or a combination of both. For example, you may want to blank all weld points or display only the parts consumed by a process. In addition, a visualization filter allows you to set the object and/or occurrence types you want to hide from the display on a more permanent basis.

The types of objects you can blank or display depend on the type of structure on which you are working. For a process structure, you can display or blank:

• Item types such as Item, WeldPoint, or Workarea. All item types that derive from Item, Workarea, and PSConnection (including WeldPoint) are supported.

• All available occurrence types such as MEConsumed or ME Weld Point.

• Any combination of these item and occurrence types.

For a product structure, you can display all types that derive from:

• Item

• PSConnection

For a plant structure, you can select all types that derive from the Workarea item type.

The object types to be blanked or displayed in the structure must exactly match the selected types. Selecting an item does not select every object derived from the Item type.

To reduce the size of this potentially long list of candidates, you can store the commonly used item list in the MEBlankDisplayTypes preference.