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Squiggly pipe & bar sections

Squiggly pipe & bar sections

Squiggly pipe & bar sections

(OP)
So I'm doing a detail drawing for a shaft and realize that after using SolidWorks for 5 years it doesn't make that old school figure-8 section appearance when you foreshorten(crop)a pipe or bar detail.

Any suggestions.  It's not impairative that my drawing has it, but it would more presentable. I don't want to do it if I have to fake it in, too much time to do it.

Regards,

Christopher Zona - Senior CAD Designer
Concord, Ontario

RE: Squiggly pipe & bar sections

Right-click your broken-view line, and you have: Straight cut, Curve Cut, Zig-zag cut, Small zig-zag cut.

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RE: Squiggly pipe & bar sections

(OP)
My mistake earlier.  Referring to an old drafting book, "Technical Drawing" - ninth ed., Giesecke, Spencer et.al, published by MacMillan, it's called an "S-Break".

It would be more common to see it with piping, but is also used with solid bars, not to be confused with a break view (horizontal or verical).

Imagine that you're try to show the end detail of a shaft and you are cutting off the rest of the part.  It really amounts to a fancy end detail of a cropped view.

Regards,

Christopher Zona - Senior CAD Designer
Concord, Ontario

RE: Squiggly pipe & bar sections

I know what you talking about, and I agree they are better looking then what is available in SW, but the above is all you available in SW.

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Scott Baugh, CSWP
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RE: Squiggly pipe & bar sections

(OP)
I've already been there.

Regards,

Christopher Zona - Senior CAD Designer
Concord, Ontario

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