Section view as the master view

[Karol-Or]

I place the first view in a drawing and want to be sectioned.

Is there a way to do that, since when i mark the section line, another view is created.

Or should i put the main view outside of the paper boundaries?

[cbenner]

That is how I generally do it, if I want a section view to be my main drawing view.  As of right now there has to be a view that a section was created from, so I place that outside of the border, and drag the section view inside.  A section view can also be moved to a different sheet if need be.  Do that by creating the section view, then find it in the drawing model tree, and simply drag and drop (from the model tree) to the sheet you want it on.  Once it's there you can move, resize, rotate etc... to get what you need.

[Cadmanto]

Karol,

You are better off sticking the parent view off of the page.  You can't delete the parent view without the program removing the dependant views.

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[Curtis_Waguespack · Accepted solution]

Hi Karol-Or,

In addition to the other suggestions, you can select the base view and right-click and choose Suppress, this will leave just the section view. I have always had the impression that this will speed up the drawing upon opening or regenerating, but to be honest I've never actually tested that theory.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[cwhetten]

I just tested a few performance factors.  When opening a drawing (drawing and assembly were both updated completely before last save), there did appear to be a performance increase when suppressing the base view, but the increase was slight (about 1 sec in my tests).

However, the biggest difference I found was when drawing views are updated after a change in the model.  Suppressed views don't calculate, so the drawing finishes updating all views sooner that it would with the base view unsuppressed.  In the case that I tested, it was a 20 sec difference (and this was with only one view suppressed).

So, any views off-sheet should be suppressed if you want to benefit from this increase in performance.

Cameron Whetten
Inventor 2014

[SteveMDennis]

Yes there should be a performance increase because we don't do the hidden line calculations.  We simply take the bodies from that suppressed view and cut them for the child section view (which has to be done no matter what)

[cbenner]

Thanks Cameron!  Good to know.

[kwilson_design]

Another approach that doesn't force you to have views outside of the paper space is to use Break Out tool. Workflow below:

Steps 1 & 2... 

Draw a rectangle around your entire view if you want to section the entire model. If you only want to section a small detail area then only draw the geometry you want in that area to act as the "cutting tool". Whatever the geometry is, it has to be a closed loop profile in order to work! Once done Return from Sketch.

Click the Break Out tool in the Modify panel. You will see a Break Out selection icon as your cursor. Select your view with the sketch.

Select the edge, point, distance, etc you want to cut your section view to...

Done. Also since the sketch it tied to the View it will move with it.

You can create section views from your base section view, all without having to have these extra clutter views around the paper space...