[Resolved] PR #4942 new option to show/hide sketcher constraints

[GeneFC]

Just dreaming.

That sort of complexity should promote plenty of "Help me" posts in the forum.

Need to figure out a way to hide the expert stuff from the newbies.

Gene

[chrisb]

That sort of complexity should promote plenty of "Help me" posts in the forum.

Need to figure out a way to hide the expert stuff from the newbies.

I'm afraid you are right if this is fully exposed to users, while I had thought about it rather as an implementation idea.

[wsteffe]

That sort of complexity

Which complexity ? is it to have more than two Virtual Spaces ?

[abdullah]

I will review the filter of the widget.

I may be one of the rare users, who had waited for more virtual spaces. If constraints can be shown in multiple virtual spaces, it could be used to have a virtual space for each type of constraint plus one for all, plus custom user spaces.

Just dreaming.

The extended filter is working now:

Screenshot_20210919_191610.png (77.2 KiB) Viewed 3046 times

I will evaluate the number of virtual spaces with the layer implementation. Maybe there is a way to make it intuitive.

[chrisb]

The extended filter is working now:

What a support: Currently you are the king of speed!

[GeneFC]

Which complexity ? is it to have more than two Virtual Spaces ?

Yes.

[uwestoehr]

Looking at the PR functionality, there are some caveats:
- after one hides everything (by checking the checkbox), if one checks one of the individual checkboxes, the constraint is checked (in the list), shown in the 3D view, but the hide/show all listed constraints continues checked.

Thanks for having a look. Now I understand also @chennes request to use a button.
So in fact, yes, a button would make clear that the feature is designed to act only when the button is pressed. I will adapt the PR accordingly as soon as I find time.

Regarding your other statements it is not clear what you want to do. For me as the users, I only need a way to hide/show from a sketch either all datum constraints or even all constraints. Nothing more.

[uwestoehr]

The extended filter is working now:
Screenshot_20210919_191610.png

I will evaluate the number of virtual spaces with the layer implementation. Maybe there is a way to make it intuitive.

Do you have a PR to be able to try this out?
What would be the workflow to e.g. hide all constraints except of the dimensions?

[wsteffe]

For sake of simplicity I would keep a Number of 2 Virtual Spaces but, anyway, I would like that they are not mutual exlusive.
I can not see a reason for which a constraint must be hidden in VS1 when it is unhidden in VS2.
In my opinion the visual settings of one Virtual Space should affect the visual settings of the other Virtual Space.

[chrisb]

We know something similar to the concept of virtual spaces from other programs where they are called "Layers". The concept dorsn't seem to be really difficult to understand. I see two concepts of showing things: it is possible to show several layers at once and it is possible to have the same thing on different layers. These are not necessarily mutually exclusive.