Planes Off - Selected

Overview

Planes Off hides the primary work planes (1, 2, and 3) for the selected component occurrence(s) in an assembly. Use it to declutter the graphics window when you no longer need reference planes.

If the component document includes a user parameter named ShowPlanes, this command sets it to False. You can use that parameter in component rules to also hide additional custom work planes.

How It Works

• Prompts you to pick one or more component occurrences (selection set allowed).
• For each selected component document:
  • Sets the ShowPlanes user parameter to False (if present).
  • Sets work planes 1, 2, and 3 visibility to False.
• Updates the affected documents after applying visibility changes.

Usage Instructions

1. Select the component(s) in your assembly for which you want to hide planes.
2. Click Planes Off in the Configure panel.
3. Confirm work planes 1–3 are hidden in the selected components.
4. If you use a ShowPlanes-driven rule, verify custom planes respond as expected.

Troubleshooting

• Some planes remain visible: A design view representation or a rule may be overriding visibility.
• Custom planes remain visible: Ensure your component rule uses ShowPlanes to set additional work planes off.
• Nothing changed: Confirm you selected the intended component occurrence(s) and that they are not suppressed/read-only.

Examples

1. Hide all planes in a component: Select the component and run Planes Off to hide all coordinate system planes.
2. Toggle custom work planes: Add a rule to your component to toggle visibility for specific named planes using the ShowPlanes parameter.
3. Example rule to toggle work plane visibility. Each time you run Planes On/Planes Off, these work planes along with the standard coordinate system planes will be toggled according to your rules.
   • ThisDoc.Document.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes(1).Visible = ShowPlanes
   • ThisDoc.Document.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes("Top of Fitting").Visible = ShowPlanes
   • ThisDoc.Document.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes("Bottom of Fitting").Visible = ShowPlanes
   • ThisDoc.Document.ComponentDefinition.WorkPlanes("Middle of Fitting").Visible = ShowPlanes

Related Commands

• Planes On
• Planes Off All
• Planes Off All Nested
• Configure Component
• Parameters

Assembly Tool Suites

• Configure Suite
• Construct Suite
• Create Suite
• Parametric Suite
• Define Suite
• Placement Suite
• Replace Suite
• Utility Suite