How to hide and isolate selected objects?

Hiding an object is to make it invisible, and isolating an object is similar to layer isolation, which is to temporarily hide all objects except the selected ones.

Why we need to hide objects?

When some graphic objects affect what are drawing, we can hide them to make them invisible so that they don’t affect our drawing. When our drawing is finished, then we can make them visible.

  1. Select objects to be hidden or isolated, as shown in the following picture,
before selecting
after selecting

2. Right-click, select Isolation, as shown in the following picture,

3. If you selected Isolation > Isolate Objects, then you get the following,

4. If you selected Isolation > Hide Objects, you get the following,


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