section views - background items

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to show only what you cut through in a secion view? In other words, background geometry is not visible. I can turn the individual lines off, but that is very time-consuming.

thanks,
Andy

[Anonymous]

If you right click the section in the tree, click
show contents You can shut off vissibility to any components you dont want to
see.

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Is
there a way to show only what you cut through in a secion view? In other
words, background geometry is not visible. I can turn the individual lines
off, but that is very time-consuming.

thanks,
Andy

[Anonymous]

Andy:

In the parent view, the one from which the section was created, show
contents and turn off the visibility of the ones you don't want to see.

Richard

[Anonymous]

thanks for the responses.
Actually, I was concerned with a section view of an individual part. I guess there is no quick way in that scenario.
Good to know the choices for an assembly, however.

thanks,
Andy

[Anonymous]

Basically it can be done by this long method using
a series of "extra" views:

- Create a side view

- create a section view through a point that
divides the part with the arrows pointing towards the half of the part that you
want to use in your final section.

- create another side view by projecting from the
first section ( it will only show the half of the part within your section
definition)

- lastly, create the section view you want by
sectioning from this new projection. (since the unwanted stuff is not seen in
the projection view, it won't show in the new section.)

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K

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thanks
for the responses.
Actually, I was concerned with a section view of an
individual part. I guess there is no quick way in that scenario.
Good to
know the choices for an assembly, however.

thanks,
Andy

[acleggEHUKY · Accepted solution]

You can turn off the background geometry by right clicking the section through view you have created in the tree - select 'Edit Section Properties' - Change the 'Section Depth' from 'Full' to 'Distance' and then set the distance to be anything less than 5 - this will then hide anything that is in the background of the section view

Hope this helps.

[johan.degreef]

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@acleggEHUKY wrote:

You can turn off the background geometry by right clicking the section through view you have created in the tree - select 'Edit Section Properties' - Change the 'Section Depth' from 'Full' to 'Distance' and then set the distance to be anything less than 5 - this will then hide anything that is in the background of the section view

Hope this helps.

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Almost 20yrs after the question was asked, but in the end we got the correct awnser 🙂

[acleggEHUKY]

I looked on here to find out how to do it. Unfortunately the question hadn't been answered so I figured it out and felt I needed to share 🙂

[david.lesergent]

Thanks so much! Exactly what I was looking for!!!!!