topic Re: Sectioning washer in drawing in Inventor Forum

Sectioning washer in drawing

NigelHay — Wed, 20 May 2020 17:57:24 GMT

I know that content centre parts don't usually section in a drawing view but, on this occasion, I want to show the clearance in the bore. The washer highlighted in the attached image would originally have been a content centre part which was then 'saved as' in order to put it into our company part number structure.

If I open the washer & go to 'Tools, Document Settings, Modeling', the 'Participate in Assembly & Drawing Sections' box is ticked.

In the drawing, if I right click the washer in the browser & select 'Section participation', 'Section' is ticked but the washer still does not show as sectioned in any of the drawing views.

Am I missing something here?

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

johnsonshiue — Wed, 20 May 2020 18:11:42 GMT

Hi Nigel,

The behavior does not look right to me. If you hide all parts in the assembly, does the washer stay unsectioned? What about the other washers? Please share the example here. I would like to understand the behavior better.

Many thanks!

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

jhackney1972 — Wed, 20 May 2020 18:12:02 GMT

The only thing that comes to mind, and is often done by mistake, you are clicking on the wrong instance of the washer in the Drawing Browser. You must expand the assembly under the Section View and add the section participation there.

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

NigelHay — Wed, 20 May 2020 18:15:13 GMT

I was careful to do that. In this particular assembly, there is only 1 washer of that type which is inserted twice, then patterned with other components.

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

NigelHay — Wed, 20 May 2020 18:26:28 GMT

If I hide everything in that detail view apart from the 2 instances of the same washer, it still remains unsectioned.

Zip file of the 'pack & go' of the assembly attached.

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

jhackney1972 — Wed, 20 May 2020 18:44:11 GMT

I created a drawing in both Inventor 2020 and 2021 and the washers section perfectly. What version are you using?

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

NigelHay — Wed, 20 May 2020 18:47:51 GMT

I'm using 2020.

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

johnsonshiue — Wed, 20 May 2020 22:29:53 GMT

Hi Nigel,

Indeed, I am seeing the same behavior as John. I cannot reproduce it on 2020.3 or 2021.0.1. Could you share the idw file also?

Many thanks!

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

rhasell — Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:00 GMT

Did you check the drawing view settings?

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

NigelHay — Thu, 21 May 2020 13:36:44 GMT

I have now, it is set to obey browser.

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

NigelHay — Thu, 21 May 2020 13:37:57 GMT

Drawing attached.

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

johnsonshiue — Thu, 21 May 2020 21:05:01 GMT

Hi Nigel,

I must be missing a step or two. It seems to work for me. Those washers did not participate in sectioning. Then I change the setting to "Sectioned" and they are sectioned correctly. Please take a look at the drawing.

Many thanks!

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

NigelHay — Fri, 22 May 2020 13:38:43 GMT

Still won't work for me. The parts in the browser are set to section & the view is set to obey browser settings. Is there maybe another command somewhere which would override these settings?

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

mikejones — Fri, 22 May 2020 20:31:59 GMT

Nigel, looking at the screenshot you posted you are showing that you are changing the section participation in the detail view and not in the section view itself. Expand the model under the section view and make the change to section participation and not the model under the detail view.

That may be the issue you have.

Mike

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

nigel.hay — Sun, 24 May 2020 09:39:45 GMT

Mike, I had tried that but the washer stays unsectioned in both the section view & detail view.

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

rhasell — Sun, 24 May 2020 09:56:54 GMT

Strange. I used your data set and your drawing and it works for me. Mike is correct in his observation, change the Section option in the section view.

Try this.

Press and hold Shift, then Right click. Select "Part Priority". (Or select from the Toolbar)

You can then select the parts in the drawing without using the browser.

Select the washer, right click on the washer and change the section participation to "Section"

The downstream Detail view will also section.

If this still does not work, can I suggest that you make a screencast recording of your process in order for everyone to trouble shoot the problem a little easier.

Re: Sectioning washer in drawing

NigelHay — Tue, 26 May 2020 13:38:10 GMT

That did the job, the washers are now shown as sectioned in the section & detail view.