How to quickly show ALL hidden components in your SOLIDWORKS assembly

Have you ever gotten a little trigger happy with suppressing components in your assembly? It can be tedious sometimes to make certain that all the components are turned back to a visible state once you’ve done what you needed to do.

Either you used CTRL + SHIFT + TAB to show all hidden components, then have to re-select them all in the graphic area. Or, you would go hunting through the feature tree sub-assembly by sub-assembly to select the components, right? Wrong!

“Show with Dependents” quickly and easily shows all hidden components whether they are a top level component or buried four tiers deep.

Show with dependents