File: Any_Document_Scripts/Toggle_Show_Hide_Geometric_Set.py
Version: 1.3
Document Type: Part, Product, or Process

Toggles the visibility of the contents and children inside a selected geometric set. The selected set itself is not affected. Each element is toggled based on its own current visibility state — if it is shown it will be hidden, and if it is hidden it will be shown.

1. Open a CATPart, CATProduct, or CATProcess document containing a geometric set
2. Run the script
3. Select the geometric set whose contents should be toggled — click OK when done
4. All elements and child sets inside the selected set are toggled between shown and hidden — the selected set itself is unchanged

• The selected set itself is not affected — only the items inside it are toggled
• Each element is toggled based on its own current visibility state, not the parent's — so elements that were already hidden before running the script will be shown, and vice versa
• The toggle applies recursively to all child geometric sets and their contents
• To hide or show all planes and axis systems across the whole document use Hide Planes And Axis Systems instead
• Requires pycatia >= 0.10.0. VisPropertySet.get_show() returns a tuple of (status, show) instead of a bare integer. Versions 1.2 and earlier of this script compared that result directly to an integer, which silently stopped matching — the script would reveal hidden elements but never hide visible ones. Version 1.3 reads the show state from index 1 and compares it against CatVisPropertyShow. See Writing Scripts for the full tuple-getter reference