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crop view sketch profiles

crop view sketch profiles

crop view sketch profiles

(OP)
the SW help file says you are limited to "closed" sketches, but doesn't define what closed means.  Am i limited to rectangles?  I'd like to use a curvy spline on one side of the sketch, but it doesn't work.  

Alternatively, i'd like to break the view and then hide the end portion of the part.  I can't seem to do this either.

Any suggestions?

RE: crop view sketch profiles

"Closed" = a closed loop of some kind.  Can include lines, arcs, splines, ellipses, parbolae.  Can be a single ellipse, circle, or closed spline.

RE: crop view sketch profiles

Your spline endpoints have to be coincident with the rest of the sketch.  Try drawing the spline and other sketch entities as overlapping and then trimming them to be coincident.  Note that the sketch entities must "belong" to the view.  When sketching up a profile, it's easy to begin the sketch too far away from the view and the entities end up belonging to the sheet rather than the view.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: crop view sketch profiles

(OP)
okay, i got it.  I had to select one segment first, RMB, pick "select chain", and then hit the Crop button.  Thanks!

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