Hey All, I use SW at work now instead of Inventor (due to policy) and there are a few things SW is just miles ahead of Inventor on. One of those is section views. I think section views are one of the weakest features of inventor, and with section views being such an important tool in designing, Autodesk should improve the usability of the feature ASAP. I propose an overhaul of the section viewing workflow for Inventor to mimic SW sectioning. Below is a screenshot of the SW sectioning tool immediately after I click the button (default state of the sectioning tool). Note a few points: - Sectioning tool is not hidden in the view tab, but easily accessible (circled in red) - Clicking on it initiates a half section at a principle plane automatically. No need to select "quarter", "half", etc... or the plane itself - To switch principle planes, just click on the appropriate one (red arrow) - You can drag the cut plane using the orange arrow without dimensioning (orange arrow, circled in red). - To make a quarter section, you can enable "section 2". - You can exclude bodies from section cutting using the "section by body" feature. Overall, SW has the best sectioning of any CAD program I've used. It is extremely intuitive and requires few "clicks" compared to Inventor. Inventor section views are one of the most painful-to-use common features in my opinion. I won't go into the details but I find it very clunky. SW does it in a significantly more useful way, and for someone like me who designs complex internal assemblies, having an easy sectioning tool is critical. For that reason alone, SW might have my business in the future. It is just that much better.
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