Visibility Sets



Visibility Sets allow you to store a snapshot of the Visibility settings of Selection Groups to be easily recalled later.
You can also use them as a convenient way to mass-assign Material IDs.

Visbility Sets can be accessed via the Filter Toolbar:


Pay attention to tooltips. Nearly every function in the Toolbar has extensive tooltips listing functionality and hotkeys



A new Visibility Set can be created via the "Create new Visibility Set ..." Action in the Visibility Set Menu


No custom visibility achieved via hiding or unhding faces is stored, only the state of visibility of selection groups



Apart from specifying the unique name for the set, you can also set a Material ID Override Color for the Visibility Set.

Assigning a Override Color will apply the ID Color to all visible Selection Groups inside the Set.

You can change Material ID Colors at any time later by pressing and holding the "M" Hotkey and clicking on a Set.


Pressing and holding M Hotkey will allow you to change the Material ID Color Override later on


To delete a Visibility Set simply click the "X" button next to a set. 


  • Clicking on the Visibility Set Button will restore the saved Visibility States
  • Clicking on the Invert Button next to it, will load the Visibility Set with inverted Visibilities - what was stored as visible will be made invisible, what was stored as invisible will be made visible
  • To add visible Selection Groups of multiple sets together, so you have multiple sets visible in the viewport, SHIFT+Click on multiple Visibility Set Buttons.
    This does not change any visibility set. Just loads multiple into the viewport.

  • To remove Visibilities of sets from your current viewport visibilities, CTRL+Click on a Visibility Set Button



There are multiple Hotkey Context Action available to edit existing Visibility Sets.

Press and Hold

Press and hold the Hotkey "R" to remove the currently selected Selection Group (within the Selection Group Palette list) from the visible items in the clicked on 
Visibility Set.

Press and Hold

Press and hold the Hotkey "A" to add the currently selected Selection Group (within the Selection Group Palette list) to the visible items in the clicked on Visibility Set.
If the Visibility Set has a Material ID Color Overwrite assigned, the added Selection Group will inherit the color.

Press and Hold

Press and hold the Hotkey "O" to complete overwrite the clicked on Visibility Set with the currently visible Selection Groups.

This is the same as creating a new Visibility Set with an existing Name.

Press and Hold

Press and hold the Hotkey "M" to change or assign a new Material ID Color Overwrite to the clicked on Visibility Set.

You can use the Filter Search Bar to search within a visibility Set.

$inset:SETNAME, 
!$inset:SETNAME

Searches within visible selection groups within the specified Visibility Set.Name
If it is inverted with a prefixed ! (e.g. !$inset:SETNAME) it will search within Selection Groups that are invisible
in the specified Visibility Set,

  • $inset:roof, arm ... 
    only searches for the word "arm" in selection groups that are visible in the visibility set "roof"

  • $inset:roof + arm........  
    same result as above, however the set filter is applied as a local variable to the word "arm"

  • !$inset:roof, arm ... 
    only searches for the word "arm" in selection groups that are invisble in the visibility set "roof"



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