Why you Should Hide Items in Blender
Difficulty: Noob
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Objective: Learn how to hide elements to make your workflow easier.
1.) View
This should be obvious, but if not one reason to hide items is so that you can better view your screen. To hide items you can go in the object window and push the eye button or use the hot-key [H]. To unhide the item you can push the eye again or use the hot-key [Alt]+[H].
An example of why you would want to do this is say you have an object in front of another object that you want to manipulate. Instead of messing with your view simply hide the item.
2.) Sculpting
Sculpting can get really messy when you only want to sculpt part of the model. It is hard to not affect parts of the model without hiding it. When you hide things while sculpting, it's like you don't have to color within the lines, you can be as messy as you want. Once again the hotkey to hide is [H] or [B] and you will just need to draw a box to select what you want to hide. Keep in mind that you can use [B] or [H] + [Shift] to invert the selection.
It also is easy to hide geometry by making vertex groups. Then you can quickly select the vertex group to hide or show only.
3.) Memory
The last reason that I can think of why you would want to hide items is because your computer will run faster. When your scene begins to get complex it will start to slow down. If you don't need to see it, then hide it and it won't slow your computer down.
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Category: Blender, Noob, Tricks & Tips
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