Deactivating Your Hybrid Design Environment

For specific industrial scenarios, you may prefer to work in a traditional environment so as to restrict the location of surface and shape features to geometrical sets or ordered geometrical sets. To restore a traditional environment, you just need to deactivate the hybrid design setting.

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Hybrid Design
More About Deactivating Your Hybrid Design Environment

  1. Select Tools > Options.

    The Options dialog box appears.

  2. From the Infrastructure category, select the 3D Shape Infrastructure sub-category in the left-hand box.

  3. Click the 3D Shape tab and go to the Hybrid Design category.

  4. Just clear Enable hybrid design inside part bodies and bodies which is the default option.



    You can now work in a non-hybrid design environment.

    Important: If you select Enable hybrid design inside part bodies and bodies, the capability then applies to all the bodies you will create in your CATIA session (and not only to the new representation you are opening). Consequently, if your session contains 3D shapes already including traditional bodies, the new bodies you will create subsequently in these documents will possibly include wireframe and surface elements. To facilitate your design, It is therefore recommended that you do not change this setting during your session.