(Drawing) Break or Crop with dimmension

[Anonymous]

I have a drawing to make, which forces me to use either Break or Crop.

My problem is that the middle element of an Assembly is very long and it needs to be cut in order to precisely see the rest of this drawing. However I would like to control the position of this Break line, because the middle element is going to change it's length.

In Attachments you'll find a file (in both dwg and pdf) where you can see a simplified example. The interesting area is above Line Y and below Line X.

I used Break command, but I would like to have this line 50mm from a specific line (I don't see this possibile).

Other possibility is to use Crop command, but it is impossibile to have 2 Crops in one view. I tried to use 2 views with one Crop in each, but then I'm unable to put a dimension between this views (like ZZ dimension).

Do you have any solution?

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Hi,

Make two detail views:

Detail A1 is the Top side

Detail A2 is the bottom side

You can constraint these by default....

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[Anonymous]

As I mentioned before, I tried to use 2 views with one Crop in each, but then I'm unable to put a dimension between this views (like ZZ dimension).

[rhasell]

Hi

I was hoping to find that someone had written some code for this.

Anyway, what I do is create a sketch in the view, project any relevant geometry and then create small 0.1mm marker lines at the desired location. In my case I use the lines as anchors for sketched symbols as well, because by default, I cannot anchor to a break line.

When you create your break view, place it between the two lines you created in the sketch. (I normally make the line quite large to begin with, so that I can see them a little easier, and then change them to 0.1mm) This makes the break so much more predictable.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your advice.

I tried this in my example. But my height may change significantly and unfortunately it doesn't work as I would like to. I tried this sketch with many anchored lines, symbols, dimensions etc.

I'm currently trying to work it around. Since all dimensions are being calculated in an excel file, I will probably artificially change height of all big elements to achieve desired height of all assembly. The real height would be also  calculated and I will try to put this as a parameter on drawing dimension.

[rhasell]

Hi

I am not sure why it does not work, unless you want it to be automated?

The way I have it, is that the top sketch line will remain at 50mm from the edge (Line Y) and the second sketch line 50mm from the bottom (Line X)

All you have to do is drag the break line to the two indicated sketch lines, if the size of the assembly changes, then drag the break lines to the sketch lines again, which will still be at 50mm from the Y-X lines.

It is manual, but it will be at 50mm  every time. (Unless the geometry changes, and the sketch looses the projected geometry)

I am working on some code I found on the forum, but it is still buggy, and I am still getting my head around the dynamics. If I get it right, it might solve your problem.