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    section views - background items

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    11-14-2002 04:18 AM
    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
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    *G, Ed

    Re: section views - background items

    11-14-2002 04:28 AM in reply to: aritter
    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.


    style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
    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

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    *Hinterhoeller, Richard

    Re: section views - background items

    11-14-2002 04:42 AM in reply to: aritter
    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
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    11-14-2002 05:06 AM in reply to: aritter
    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
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    *Maas, Karl

    Re:

    11-18-2002 12:29 AM in reply to: aritter
    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.)


    --
    K

     

     


    style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
    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

    Please use plain text.