How do I make sketches vanish from configurations?

[KSHansen]

I'm working with someone else's model. I created twenty configurations before I realized there were two sketches that were not hidden, and they are visible in all my assembly configs. I have to find them in the feature tree and hide them, separately for each configuration. Is there a way to hide them in all configurations at once?

I see that there is a button to turn off display of all sketches, but can they actually be hidden in the model, while leaving others showing?

[jcapriotti]

I'm assuming that your "Display States" are linked to your configurations? If so, there is a Display State created and linked to each of your 20 configurations and that's where the visibility of feature tree references are stored. Unless you need to have different colors/appearances for each configuration, I recommend unlinking it so there is only one Display State.

If you need to keep them linked, I posted this old macro ( I didn't write it) here in the macro forum.
https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=2034

[KSHansen]

The model does have the different configurations in different colors. So assuming I want to keep it that way, how do I select a display state, to have it show up on the properties tab?

[jcapriotti]

If you have them linked...then no need. You can run the macro on the part and check the box "All configurations".

[DanPihlaja]

Here's what I do, in this order.....and honestly it doesn't take that much time.

1) CTRL + T (switches the history tree into flat tree view & exposes all the sketches that aren't part of a hole wizard)

2) Select top level and hit the * key. (this expands the hole wizard holes (and other such things))
then

3) Hit the little carat to expand the display pane (or hit F8)

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4) Then walk down the "Hide" column and click hide for all the sketches that are shown

5) I do this for each configuration (I generally only have 10 or less....so if you have more....it might still be super tedious)

6) Once I am done, I hit SHIFT + C to collapse the tree again.

7) Hit CTRL + T again to take the tree out of flat tree view again.

8) Go have coffee.