Sections in Assemblies

[swhite]

Is there a way to save a section view in the assembly as a view rep? Am using 2011.

[blair]

Not directly, not sure if it will work in IV2011, create your view rep, then create a assembly feature cut to produce your section view. Since this is a assembly feature, it won't affect your parts outside of the assembly. You would need to suppress the feature in other views.

Give it a try

[Cadmanto]

If you give some more detail of what exactly you are trying to accomplish maybe we can offer some alternate suggestions.

If this solved your issue please mark this posting "Accept as Solution".

Or if you like something that was said and it was helpful, Kudos are appreciated. Thanks!!!! 

[swhite]

I need two pos rep section views so I can overlay them on the drawing. Have created my section views, copied to autocad, put the two together and made a part sketch from it to show on drawing. I would prefer to use overlay, but was unable to get my section cuts to stay in the assembly on my views. Am working with a huge assembly (Oil Rig - so experimentation is not an option as it takes an hour to update sometimes...) and since Inventor won't section a normal and overlay view together, thought maybe....

[gcross]

Blair,

In answering the Sections in Assemblies question I noticed you suggested that it's possible to "suppress the feature in other views".

I checked a drawing & could not find out a way to directly do this. Its this really possible, if so how.? Or did you mean something different.

Thanks.

Gary

BTW- My EVGA X79 MB i7/GTX 590 system is still doing very well & I still appreciate your advice back when I bought it...even if my phone call to you in Canada was about $60 !  🙂

[blair]

You would need to create additional View-Reps in the IAM and then suppress the feature in those views. You can then use those other views.

[swhite]

My propblem is I don't need anything suppressed, I just need pos rep section views. Need everything to show, just sectioned instead of a normal view, and so far besides creating two sections and putting them together in autocad have found no other way, I could create two derived parts, section those, but with the size of my assembly that's 3 hours of waiting. AutoDesk nees a way to section normal and overlay views together.

[Cadmanto]

The only other suggestion I was going to offer wasn't any easier then what you are already doing.

What I have done is posted an idea based on your thread.  So if you want this to be in future versions of

Inventor go to this link and cast your vote.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-IdeaStation/Saving-Model-Views/idi-p/3804841

If this solved your issue please mark this posting "Accept as Solution".

Or if you like something that was said and it was helpful, Kudos are appreciated. Thanks!!!! 

[blair · Accepted solution]

Because we have created an Assembly Feature to cut through all the components in the desired View-Rep. You will then need to create new View Reps with this Cut-Feature suppressed to get the full view without any cuts. That way when you do your IDW drawings, you can select the view that has the feature active for your section view and you can then select the other view-reps that has the feature suppressed for your complete view. This way when you do your positional view with overlays they will remain aligned.

[swhite]

Will use that idea next goaround, but too many views in drawing already to have to change em all up. Should work for what I need in the future tho, thanks.