Work on single Level of multi-level building

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willman
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Work on single Level of multi-level building

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I am new to FreeCAD and recently imported an .IFC file of a mult-level home building that was originally created and exported from Revit. I am having difficulty understanding how to view and work on a single level of the building at a time. The imported elements of each level appear to be grouped in the tree view under their respective levels (storeys). I have attempted to toggle visibility of the floors I am not working on, but toggling visibility at the top level does not appear to toggle visibility of all the child elements. I had seen on one forum post suggesting that you have to toggle the visibility of the parent on and off a couple of times before the child elements sync visibility, but I have now toggled them on and off multiple times, and the only way I can get all the child elements to also toggle is do each one manually.

So,
  • A: How do I get all the child elements of a group to toggle visibility simultaneously if I hide the whole group?
  • B: Is that the best way to isolate and work on a single level at a time, or is there a better practice for viewing a single level of a multi-level structure?
Thank you in advance for any guidance and suggestions.

I have attached screenshots of my tree view and the property sheet of one of the imported levels.

OS: Windows 10 Version 1809
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24267 +99 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: Branch_0.19.3
Hash: 6530e364184ce05ccff39501e175cf2237e6ee4b
Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.3
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
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