Actor.visibility

property Actor.visibility: bool

Return or set actor visibility.

See also

use_bounds

pyvista.Plotter.compute_bounds

Examples

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Create an actor using the pyvista.Plotter and then change the visibility of the actor.

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> from pyvista import examples
>>> mesh = examples.load_airplane()
>>> pl = pv.Plotter()
>>> actor = pl.add_mesh(mesh)
>>> pl.bounds
BoundsTuple(x_min =  139.06100463867188,
            x_max = 1654.9300537109375,
            y_min =   32.09429931640625,
            y_max = 1319.949951171875,
            z_min =  -17.741199493408203,
            z_max =  282.1300048828125)

>>> actor.visibility = False
>>> pl.bounds
BoundsTuple(x_min = -1.0,
            x_max =  1.0,
            y_min = -1.0,
            y_max =  1.0,
            z_min = -1.0,
            z_max =  1.0)