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Section View Improvements

Section View Improvements

1) A section view should default to the previously used plane unless a new one is specified. 90% of the time I just want to turn it off temporarily to get the full picture

2) Add shortcuts for the primary planes. Most of the time I use the front or right planes. I shouldn't have to expand the tree and search *every* time I want a section view.

3) Make the button a toggle. I is insane that to turn it off, I have to click the little drop down and go to "End Section View" only to repeat the process to find "Half Section View" If it is off and the user clicks it, he obviously wants it back on. If it is on and the user clicks it, they obviously want it off.

4) Make it more accessable. I use section views a dozen times per hour (I would probably use it more if it was easier). I moved the button to the little quick bar but I still have to use the dropdown.

2 Comments
Anonymous
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I think it could be even better if you could open second window of the document and make a section view there.

In this way you had two or more windows of the same document with different representations und different section views.

But the section view (and the same representation view) ist the same in all windows of the document.

 

If this behavior could be changed (different representation views in different windows), you wouldn't need to make the section view every time and then disable it.

Anonymous
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Also, when you apply a section view to a surface, that surface should not be hatched. This matters becuase say I want to sketch on some interior surface in my assembly. If I section to that surface so I can actually see the interior, I can no longer add a sketch to that surface. I realize I could always add (blindly) the sketch to that surface first but why. I am sectioning to expose that surface but it then becomes unselectable...

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