- [Instructor] We're staying in our ground floor plan
revision five .DWG.
And you can see I've zoomed to the extent
of the visible drawn objects in the model tab.
We're going to zoom in on the restrooms over here
sort of in the middle, on the left hand side.
Get the cross edge just over them,
roll up on the wheel a few notches
and you can see there's our restrooms there
with our little sinks and our cubicles and our WCs.
Now, there's a lovely feature in AutoCAD
and it's called hide and isolate.
So what I can do is I can select
a group of objects that I might want to hide,
and AutoCAD will hide them for me
so I can work on other parts of the geometry in my drawing.
So I'm going to select these two doors here.
And the doors also show like a sort of entrance, exit area,
hence the rectangles.
what I'm also going to do is select the sinks like so,
and I'm just going to work my way
around selecting all of the objects
that form all of the furniture
inside my toilets and restrooms here.
So the doors and also the WCs, like so.
So I'm going to select all of these like this
and they're now in a selection set.
Make sure I get those other sinks there as well.
Otherwise it won't quite work.
So what we've got there is everything selected.
I want to hide those objects so that I can work on the walls
and the cubicle walls and so on in my little restrooms here.
So it's a right click.
And I go to isolate on the shortcut menu
and I want to hide those objects.
Those objects are now hidden.
I can now work on the walls.
Unfortunately, one of the doors there,
obviously I've missed slightly, not a major problem.
But what I can do then is now right click,
go to isolate again, end object isolation.
And they all come back.
It's that quick and it's that easy.
So that allows me to hide the objects
that I obviously didn't want to see while I was working.
Let's work that the other way.
What happens if I want to isolate all of those objects
so that when I'm working in the drawing, I can obviously
isolate them and hide everything else?
I'm going to be a little bit more radical this time.
I'm going to click here once,
release the mouse button and do a crossing selection window
like that, and click that.
All of those objects have now been selected
and are in a selection set.
If I right click this time and go to isolate
and I want to isolate the objects away from everything else.
Notice when I zoom out now,
there's literally one grid line and the restrooms
and I'll see the elevator shaft there as well.
So everything is isolated so that I can just work
on that particular part of the floor plan.
Again, I can right click, go to isolate,
end the object isolation,
and everything's back, double click on the wheel
to zoom extends to the extent of the visible drawn objects.
So you can see how useful hide and isolate are.
They're really handy for hiding objects
you don't want to see when you're working
on geometry and more importantly,
isolating objects that you do want to see
and hiding everything else so that you can work
on the geometry in your AutoCAD drawings.