How to exclude part from Assembly section drawing

[Anonymous]

Hi

I have an assembly were i want to exclude some parts in a sectional drawing view. I mean i want those parts to be visible in section view but should not get sectioned. And the remaining parts will be in a sectioned view. Is that possible?

I've attached a picture explaining my question.
 

[kris_berg · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

Welcome to the forum.  We are working on this feature right now.  I am not exactly sure when it will be released, but it is closed to be completed.  This is an excerpt from the specification:

When sectioning a drawing view, all components (and bodies) cut by the section line are listed and selected by default. If required, the user can unselect components and or bodies which immediately updates the preview. Clicking OK triggers an update of the view based on the inclusion\exclusion of component and bodies. If components have been excluded, these components will appear within the section view as complete components.

I believe this will satisfy your requirements.  Let me know if you have further questions.

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Has there been any progress on this feature, or am I missing something? There is no area to "uncheck/deselect" components in my Section Analysis. As, I introduce my new company to Fusion 360 (just recently got a new job and am trying to sell the whole company to using Fusion), this will be a critical feature. Critical enough, we might not be able to use Fusion.

Let me give my work around, that didn't really solve the problem and caused me to have to "fudge" stuff to make it work.

What I did was slice up the "shell", hiding the particular sliced parts. This caused issues when doing the drawings and utilizing the auto balloon function. Because the auto ballooning is done per reference view, you can't uncheck the sliced parts in one view and uncheck different parts for a different view without creating a new parent view. This causes a different ordered auto balloon set that doesn't match the first, and trying to renumber the second auto ballooning to match the first doesn't work on the secondary level components within the assembly. Any ideas?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

It looks like this solution didn't get implemented. There is another post (I couldn't paste a link to it) where an Autodesk person says:

"Unfortunately this idea did not get the support of the community and as such we will not be pursuing it. Please feel free to rework and resubmit this one down the road. Thanks for taking the time to submit your idea. Due to the low strategic fit, we have decided that we will not be pursuing this one at the given moment."

Unfortunately, this feature was also a deal-breaker for me.

But Fusion 360 is probably also geared towards rapid prototyping models, where you usually don't make drawings to be able to print on a 3D printer. But I am not sure, since I no longer work in CAD.

[ClintBrown3D · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous & @Anonymous 

This feature was implemented some time back.

When placing a section view, you can choose which components are cut, alternatively, once the view is placed, simply double-click the view, then make your selections on the dialogue that pops up.

[lidberg.david]

Why isnt this available in design view.

[ClintBrown3D]

Hi @lidberg.david 

In design views, you can simply toggle the parts that you want to display in the browser reference.

[aleksei_ovsienko]

I think what the question was about is how do you exclude things from being cut in section analysis in Solid workspace.  For example I need to make some renders and I want the enclosure sectioned but not certain internal components. Looks better this way.