Alibre Design

Chapter 12 - Drawings12.3.16 Hiding Parts in a View (Assemblies Only)In a drawing of an assembly, you can hide parts in a view.‣ To hide a part in a view:1. Right-click the part in the work area view and select Hide Part from the pop-upmenu.OR2. In the Drawing Explorer, click the plus sign next to the applicable view.3. Click the plus sign next to the assembly name to expand the list of associatedparts.4. Right-click the part and select Hide from the pop-up menu.5. The part is hidden in the view and is dimmed in the Drawing Explorer. To unhidethe part, right-click the hidden part in the Drawing Explorer and unselect Hide.12.3.17 Inserting Images in a DrawingYou can insert images, such as logos, into drawings. Several popular file types aresupported: JPG, GIF, TIF, BMP, RLE, DIB, RLE, EMF, WMF, PNG, JPE, JPEG, JFIF, andTIFF. Alibre Design does not support JPEG 2000 or lossless JPEGs, as well as sometypes of TIFF files.When you save the drawing, the images are compressed and stored with the drawing.Opening the drawing opens all the images inside it.When you export a drawing in the Alibre Design STEP format, the images arecompressed and saved with it. When the STEP file is opened, the images aredecompressed and loaded into the file.When you save a drawing as a template after inserting an image, the image will remainpart of the template when it is used again in another drawing.‣ To insert an image in a drawing:1. From the Insert menu, select Image. The Select Image dialog box appears.358