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Broken View error - on curve

Broken View error - on curve

Broken View error - on curve

(OP)
I am using NX5 and I am a newbie. I have read some previous threads but have not come across my error. I have created the curve in the expanded view on a oil bottle neck. I have made sure none of my point are on any geometry lines or edges. I then begin the broken view process. I select the view, my vector point is the center of the bottle selected in the top view, I then go and select my created curve and apply. At this point I get "error, a curve crosses a previos curve". This is the only curve line available. I did use an open profile curve.

RE: Broken View error - on curve

I can't quit be sure I'm visualising exactly what you're doing but I usually have no trouble with a very similar method. Expand Member View, add a curve you want to use as the cut boundary, and then get back out into the drawing using Expand. Now you edit the View Boundary by changing the method to Break Line Detail and selecting you bounding object. After you hit apply if the boundary curve is open on one side then the system creates a straight line between the two end points of the curve that you selected. If is is a straight line you probably can't see this happening. However all you need do is MB1 select a point near the middle of that line and drag it to a point around the part of the view that you want to keep. You use MB1 again to anchor it and then you keep picking the individual line elements dragging and placing until you have expanded an envelope that shows all of what you wanted to see.

I suspect that it is just that latter part with picking and expanding the envelope around your view that you're not used to yet.

Best Regards

Hudson

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RE: Broken View error - on curve

(OP)
Yes, I forgot about the envelope part. Thanks for the reminder. I did not have that part written down in my notes. NOW I do!  smile

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