I have an assembly jig drawing in which I want to show how 2 different parts can be fitted. I currently show the 2 parts superimposed (9 & 10 in the attachment) but, ideally I would like to show half of each part either side of the centreline. Is there any way of doing this. I know I could use 2 views with 1 part in each but would like to do this in a single view.
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kelly.young has embedded your image for clarity.
Sounds like what you may want to do is create an iAssembly that shows each part individually in the assembly as it fits into the jig. Then when you create your section views in the drawing, you can have each view representing a different member of the assembly.
Make sense? Doesn't sounds like you are wanting to superimpose each over the other. Am I correct in saying that?
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I do want to superimpose them so that they both appear in the same view but only want to see half of each part so that the alternative use is clear. I've attached a very crude version of what I want to give you an idea. I made this by creating 2 detail views either side of the centreline then butted the views together. I could then turn off the visibility of the alternate parts in each view.
kelly.young has embedded your image for clarity.
I get it. Hmmm, without actually having tried this, what I am thinking is creating a view rep showing an ipart in the assembly. Maybe an iAssembly is still needed. Except this time, in the ipart, two members. One whole and the other cut to show the half. Opposite half for the other part. Then the iAssembly would have the complete, and the other would be the two halves. Does this make sense?
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Can't apply an Overlay view to a section view, so that's no good.
However, I managed to produce what you're hoping to do, but I doubt that you would consider it a solution:
I split each of the parts into two solids, which then allows me to create view representations with one of the two solids made invisible. I then created a new view rep in the assembly with the half-part view reps from the two components, and used this Split view rep for the section shown above.
As you can see, this works. But having your components permanently split into two solids has some downsides, too-- split lines visible in every drawing view, plus any model view with edges turned on; can't easily add threads (has to be above the Split feature); confusing/annoying to downstream users, etc.
Still, might work for you.
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Sam,
The guy is out for the weekend.
What you outlined was pretty close to what I was thinking as well. Yours and mine are slightly different, but at the end of the day, neither is good modeling technique.
Not to mention, to your point, figuring this out takes away from our real jobs!!! 
But, that's why we do this, right? To help others. 
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Thanks for your effort on this but the solutions seem a bit complicated. I think I'll stick with what I am doing, 2 side by side detail views, added horizontal alignment then butted together by eye, Takes a bit of careful manoeuvering but the result is OK.
kelly.young has embedded your image for clarity.
