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Section Views

Section Views

Section Views

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We are involved in the design of injection moulded housings which in general are created from a free-form shape 'a' surface, then taken into part design and the detail built into these parts as a solid model.

Many of these parts are symmetrical across one axis. If we create a drawing of these components and then try and create a section view from the aforementioned symmetry axis, the view creation fails. We get a large red cross rather than any generated elements. Section views away from this symmetry axis there isn't a problem. Only when the section is bang on the symmetry axis.

I seem to remember having a similar problem in V4

Any ideas?

RE: Section Views

Hi phodge,

I've had this problem before to, and have ended up cutting sections 0.1 mm off centre as a workaround - don't know if this will suit your application though.

 The other 'escape' I have used in the past is to change the view type from 'exact' to 'approximate' within the view properties dialogue box.

 Finally you could attempt some method of joining the symmetrical surfaces into 1 (perhaps using the federate option within join) - or the old favourite of converting the catpart into a (v4) model and back into a catpart again.

Good Luck...

RE: Section Views

If this is a repeatable case, please submit a PMR.  DS can't fix it if they don't know it's broken.

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