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section views - background items

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Message 1 of 9
aritter
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section views - background items

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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Message 2 of 9
Anonymous
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

Message 3 of 9
Anonymous
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
Message 4 of 9
aritter
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
Message 5 of 9
Anonymous
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

Message 6 of 9
acleggEHUKY
in reply to: aritter

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.

Message 7 of 9
johan.degreef
in reply to: acleggEHUKY


@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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Message 8 of 9
acleggEHUKY
in reply to: johan.degreef

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 🙂
Message 9 of 9

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

 

 

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