Overlay View in Section View

[#1]

The topic says it all, really. I would really like the ability to create an Overlay View in a Section View. There are many times this have been missed.

It has somewhat been solved by placing an additional Base View with the other positional representation, and make a new Section View on that one in the same location. But it would have been so much easier to just make an Overlay View instead, but it's not availale.

[#2]

Seconded.  It's horse excrement that this is not readily available and it's just a s bad that there is not a user-friendly workaround. I've done what you described and the probelem with that is that you have to manually overlap the views.  I could not find anyway of automatically aligning the same edge in two views.

Another workaround I've found is to create a sectioned assembly using the extrude command at the assembly level.  The downside is that you don't get hatch marks. 

[#3]

Another workaround I use is to create a new base view - apply a breakout section and then apply an overlay on that.  You still have to create the section arrows.

[#4]

It would also be useful to and Overlay to Detail Views within drawings too.

[#5]

I would like to see more functionality of views with overlays:

1) add a break view

2) crop a view with a overlay

[#6]

Accepted idea [511]. Thanks!

[#7]

Any progress on this idea?

[#8]

yes, @dan.szymanski, what's the status on this? It's still not possible to do this in Inventor 2017...

[#9]

Create overlay for Section

[#10]

Hi nausd,

Can you clarify you idea please?

[#11]

Hi Curtis_Waguespack

I create a draw, then create a drawing view, then section, then I want to Overlay and does not work for section.

[#12]

Hi @catot,

This story belongs to a broader epic to extend support for overlays to support multiple view types (Detail, Section, Breakout, Cropped & Broken).  I cannot share delivery plans or status for any functionality on public forums (due to revenue recognition ramifications), so if anyone is curious to learn what the Inventor Engineering team is up to, I would encourage you to become a member of our beta community (https://beta.autodesk.com).  Thanks.

[#13]

We are refining procedures around idea status.  Changing this to Future Consideration.

[#14]

How is this not implemented yet?  This exists in every other drafting package...  While you're adding it to section views, detail views also please.