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3 cropping, section, and hiding questions

3 cropping, section, and hiding questions

3 cropping, section, and hiding questions

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1. If you crop a view, is it possible to go back later and adjust the boundaries without starting over?

2. In a section view, can you show hidden edges of some features? It seems that you cannot select any features from the model tree when in a section view.

3. If you hide an edge by mistake, can you get it back (too late for undo)?

Thanks again

RE: 3 cropping, section, and hiding questions

1) Yes - see help on Crop

RMB the view and select "crop view" pop out menu shows up and you can select "Edit Crop" or "remove crop"

2) Not as far as I know and think it's that away because it's a standard of not showing hidden lines in section view.

3) Yes RMB and click show - if it doesn't come back it maybe a bug, because there was one in SW04 and whether it was fixed since then I don't know for sure.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

www.3dvisiontech.com
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
FAQ559-716 - SW Fora Users

RE: 3 cropping, section, and hiding questions

Regarding question 3, sometimes you can hover over the line area and get the cursor to indicate your line/edge is there and then right-click to show it (in case the bug isn't fixed).


Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

RE: 3 cropping, section, and hiding questions

What SW Version and SP are you using?

For Question #2:

In 2005 you can expand your feature tree for the section drawing view and then RMB on the features in the tree to show or hide hidden edges for that view.

For Question #3:

If 2005 you can go to Tools- System Options - Drawings- "select hidden entities" This allows quick access to lines that you have hidden in the drawing view. Just hover over the area where you hid the line and it will indicate where the line is just as Theophilus had discussed.

Hope this helps!

Best Regards,
Jon

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Solidworks 2005 SP1.1

RE: 3 cropping, section, and hiding questions

#3 - Yes, this is a known bug to the extent that if you copy the drawing the edges re-appear in the copy and can't be rehidden for some reason. I've gone through this exercise with my VAR and they have confirmed it to be so have submitted it to SolidWorks.

Regards,

Christopher Zona
Litens Automotive Partnership
Concord, Ontario, Canada

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