ASVIC FAQs

Hide/Trim Overlapping Duct

When you draw 2D duct with the "Auto Hide/Trim" option ON in the vicinity of existing Mech-Q duct, Mech-Q will offer you the option to "hide" the existing duct - indicating overlapping of duct.
With the "Show hidden lines" ON, Mech-Q changes the layers of the overlapped (existing) duct to the "hidden" layer

With the "Show hidden lines" OFF, Mech-Q trims entities fron the existing duct as required.

You can turn the "Auto Hide/Trim" feature ON after you select 'Options" in the Mech-Q Straight Duct module

NOTE
When the BOM data is OFF Mech-Q does not include the BOM data and other information to the ducting objects - without this information the Auto-Hide/Trim feature will not work

You must have the "BOM/List/Dev - Active" - ON before the Auto-Hide/Trim feature can work... The Auto-Hide/Trim feature will work on objects drawn AFTER the "BOM/List/Dev - Active" - was set ON and will not work with duct objects drawn when the "BOM/List/Dev - Active" - was set OFF.

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