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Section from a broken view

Section from a broken view

Section from a broken view

(OP)
All,
I searched for this problem and didn't find it so if it's already been answered please forgive.

I have a long bar that I've shown on the drawing sheet via a broken view. Now I need to show a section through the end to show an internal features but UG tells returns a "Selected View is Invalid".

Thanks in advance.
ugdriver

Mama's don't let your children grow up to be aerospace tool designers...

RE: Section from a broken view

(OP)
John,
We are running NX4.02.

Thanks
ugdriver

Mama's don't let your children grow up to be aerospace tool designers...

RE: Section from a broken view

You can fake it by creating the section view off of a non broken view and just sketch or show the section arrows on your broken view at the location the section was created.

Pro/E lets you do this but then again it will let you call 2 separate detail views and section views all by the same letter which seems inane to me.

If you create a section from a view you will not be able to make it a broken view, and if you create a broken view you will not be able to create a section off it which although not so convenient I believe that it is consistent with drafting standards like not taking a section off of a section view.

The copy view option may be your best bet to get what you want.

Michael

RE: Section from a broken view

I can think of two ways around this.  I rarely use the broken view command.  Typically I make two identical views and use a manual view boundary around each to produce a "broken view".  You will be missing the view break lines, but it doesn't bother me.  If it bothers you, you can draw them in manually.  Now you take section views off either of these views or add break out sections, or whatever.  If the section line arrows aren't where you want them, manually move them to the desired location.

The second is similar.  Create the broken view as desired but place a view with a manual view boundary directly over the broken view and again work off of this view to create your section.

Kind of hokey, but it works.

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