Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
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I'm running NX 6.0. The help in NX is useless in this case.
I'm selecting what it asks me to and it's just not doing anything. OK is grayed out.
I'm selecting what it asks me to and it's just not doing anything. OK is grayed out.





RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
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RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
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thread561-100123: Break out view
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RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
Start by making the view where you want the breakout view the active sketch view, draw some curve ( Spline) around the area. Finish the sketch and start the breakout section view.
toggle "Create" mode.
pick the view to section, next button:
pick the depth of the cut ( imagine the area that you enclose will be extruded from this pick, i.e if you have a second projected view you can pick in there to indicate the depth of the cut.)
Next button
( this will display the normal direction of the section view, unless you are doing something special, just click the next button
and select the curve that will enclose the area.
IF the curve-s is closed ( encloses an area)press Apply
If the curves are open ( such as a single s-shaped Spline) - click the last button "Modify boundary curves", you can then click-drag the small arcs that appear to form the area that you desire to cut. If you drag an arc to an endpoint it will disappear.
Regards,
Tomas
RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
I frequently use this tool to show a tooling ball that I need for dimensioning that is hidden behind some other component. I almost always have another view somewhere on the sheet where I can see the tooling ball in true shape from the top. In this other view I select a quadrant point on the shoulder of the tooling ball. This causes the breakout to begin right on the front of the tooling ball so everything that could be interfering is cut away but the tooling ball itself is not sectioned.
It took me a bit to figure out that you could use the other views on the sheet to accurately define this base point.
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RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
I do agree that it is a bit confusing/ annoying that one needs to know / create the section curves ( in the view) before entering the Breakout section dialog. I assume that most breakout boundaries are spline shapes and then the regular spline command could have had a "shortcut" in the breakout section dialog.
Regards,
Tomas
RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
I manage to create it's boundary curve (circle) using "Lines and arcs" toolbar.
There are multiple options to create straight lines, circles and rectangles but I can't find a single one to create a SPLINE. How can i draw a spline using Lines and circles?
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RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
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RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
Jerry, i'm using NX 8.0.
John, when i create a spline in non expanded view, previous to start of "Break out section" command, the spline is not selectable in parameter selection.
When i go to expanded view, spline command is not selectable.
RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
In the listing window you can then read what view the spline is view dependent in,... - In case it is view dependent om the drawing sheet, the text reads "Resides on drawing Sheet x"
In case it is view dep in one of the views, it reads "View Dependent In xxx@xxx"
- The most common (?) mistake is that the curve is not view dependent in the specific view that is should cut but on the drawing sheet.
If the Information Object cannot select the curve either, you have probably messed around with "layers visible in view" .
Regards,
Tomas
RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
How can i make it "View dependent"?
RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
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That You DaSalo, Toost, John and Jerry.
RE: Is there a step-by-step process for creating a break out section view?
I had trouble with break out section.
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