Drawing: section view - how to find the section line in window

[Jakob_Hamburg]

Hi everyone,

I have quite big drawings with many section view and sometimes the drafter has not made the section lines easy to spot for the drawing reviewer/reader.

Is there a way in Inventor to find the location of the section view from the section view as a basis.

I mean when I am looking at section view "A-A" I would like to zoom to the section line (means the area of the drawing where the section view was taken from)

[Jakob_Hamburg]

Does this require an iLogic rule to be accomplished?

[Alexander_Chernikov · Accepted solution]

Hi, yes, you need iLogic rule.

Try this:

Sub main()
	Dim oDDoc As DrawingDocument
    Dim OSelObj As Object
    Dim cam As Camera
    Dim oTg As TransientGeometry
    oTg = ThisApplication.TransientGeometry
    oDDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
    OSelObj = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(kDrawingViewFilter, "Pick ViewPort with Section/Detail View ...")
    cam = ThisApplication.ActiveView.Camera
    cam.Target = oTg.CreatePoint(OSelObj.ParentView.Center.X, OSelObj.ParentView.Center.Y, 0)
	cam.Eye = oTg.CreatePoint(OSelObj.ParentView.Center.X, OSelObj.ParentView.Center.Y, 20)
	Call cam.ApplyWithoutTransition
End Sub

[Jakob_Hamburg]

Thank you, Alexander. It works fine.