Make a Part of Hidden Line Invisible

[Upperclunybank]

I am trying to do a drawing as neat as I can (See attached) On the 69.15 dimension the best place is as shown. My problem is that I want to blank out part of the lines behind so they do not go through the dimension. I can turn off the visibility for the complete line but cannot find anything that will let me blank a small portion of it.

I could make the lines invisible and then sketch lines in but I am looking for a simpler way. In a past life with SW I put in "Gaps" to split the lines.

Any ideas ??

[harco]

You could try a breakout view from a circle or rectangle to cut through the whole part.
But then you would need to hide the cut edges.

[Anonymous]

A possible work around is to create a breakout, then create a
sectioned view of the breakout delete the breakout click no to delete
dependant views, move and dimension the section



On 02/03/2010 12:31, harco wrote:

You could try a breakout view from a circle or rectangle to cut through the whole part.

But then you would need to hide the cut edges.

  

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[JDMather]

Now you got me wondering - I thought Inventor automatically did "wipeouts".

To manually fix start a sketch in the view. Project geomtry the start and endpoints of the line. RMB Done.
Sketch in two shorter lines. (you might want to RMB adjust linewieght)
Exit sketch.

In your view right click on the line where the gap should be and RMB Hide.

Little bit of manual editing is just like old times.

or http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=764705&tstart=0

[Upperclunybank]

I have done it as suggested on the link you gave. Someone suggested Sketching a rectangle and filling it with the Sheet Colour. That seemed fine. I also tried the Break Out View and that also worked.

I was after the solution that was simplest and I think the Fill is the winner so far. If there is simpler than that, let me know.

Thanks to all for your inputs.

Colin

[JDMather]

>...filling it with the Sheet Colour....

Check that on print, especially if you use pdf or dwf.

[pcunningham1]

In the US, placing dimension text on top of a part like that is generally considered poor practice. It would be preferable to move the text beyond the perimeter of the part. In this case, I'd try to move the 69.15 text up or down if there was no chance of moving the dimension left or right.

Paul Cunningham

[Upperclunybank]

Now I know why the post said "White" Fill. .pdf works fine with white fill but looks a little bit strange on screen. It's the output that counts so I'll go for the white fill.

Thanks for pointing that out, Colin

[Upperclunybank]

In the UK, this is not considered best practice either, BUT, when it is the neatest (and near only) way to do it then I will do it. Left or right are not really an option and neither is up or down without making a mess of the drawing. I have been doing drawings on Inventor for the past 6 months and this is the first time I have had a drawing where I have had to resort to this.

Thank you for pointing this out anyway as I may not have realised this.

Colin