Visibility Condition

Visibility Condition

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You can set any mathematical condition for one or more object's visibility.  Use this with the Animation tools for some great effects.  Here are the steps:

  1. Select the object(s) that you want to change visibility.
  2. Right-click and select Visibility Condition from the Selection Context menu.
  3. Enter the expression for a defined variable for which you would like your object(s) to be visible.

Here's an example.  Point C is t proportional along the parabola.  In the first figure the picture is hidden.  When the picture was visible, we set the it's Visibility Condition to: |t| >=0 AND |t| <.3  .  With the Animation tools we set t from -1.5 to 1.5. As point C approaches the top of the arc,  BOOM!

visibility1    visible2