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Drafting Section View Help

Drafting Section View Help

Drafting Section View Help

(OP)
Software/Version: CATIA V5R21

Please note: I was unable to find if this has been posted/answered elsewhere, in my searches.

I have a project that has a plan view on the first sheet but takes up all of the available room on that sheet. I have a need to show section views of areas from this parent view. However, there is no room to place this view on the first sheet within the required area. This creates a situation where I need to place the section view on a second/separate sheet.

I have tried to place the section view on a second/separate sheet by copy/paste, but the section line disappears. This has its drawbacks if you need to adjust the section line for any reason. If there is no section line, how do you adjust it for your requirements.

I have also tried making the view independent of the parent view and doing a cut and paste with the same results.

My question is this:
Is it possible to have a section view that is not on the parent (file) drafting sheet, but on its own separate (file) drafting sheet, and still be associative, keeping the section line on the parent view and adjustable as needed allow the view to update accordingly?

Thank you in advance for any help.

RE: Drafting Section View Help

CATIA V5 does work as you expect.

Did you create the second sheet as a new drawing file (wrong way), or as a second sheet in the same drawing file (correct way)?

Did you cut & paste by selecting views & sheets in the tree?

Even if you did make Sheet 2 as a separate file, the views should still be linked to the parent 3D model. You can use EDIT + LINKS to verify this.

RE: Drafting Section View Help

using R20 or V6R2013x when i do cut / paste I have good result



Eric N.
indocti discant et ament meminisse periti

RE: Drafting Section View Help

how do you like catia v6, itsmyjob?
is it much different (better) then V5R20? what are the biggest improvements in the modelling field (is BOM management any better for example)?

RE: Drafting Section View Help

i guess i can make a small paper on the subject... but quickly 2013x GUI kinda same as v5, big change in 2014. new functions in v6, like text in drawing, kinematic assembly mix to name a few.

Eric N.
indocti discant et ament meminisse periti

RE: Drafting Section View Help

do you know anything more about the change in 2014?

RE: Drafting Section View Help

found something:


i hope they get it good or nx will have even more customers i suppose. it doesn't look that good from a picture.

RE: Drafting Section View Help

(OP)
Thanks jackk (Mechanical),
I created it the way the customer requires the files to be created, which you have indicated is the wrong way. This is their standard and I can not change it. They require each drafting sheet to be a separate file (new drawing) instead of within the same file as new sheets.
I was able to copy and paste it, however you loose the section line on the main view which causes additional issues when editing or changing the view (how do you re-adjust the section line if it disappears?).

Thanks for the help. I was able to come up with an alternate solution that will be acceptable to the customer.

RE: Drafting Section View Help

how do you re-adjust the section line if it disappears?

I suggest drawing your own Section Lines, when you have the sheets in different filed and the ADD CALLOUT command doesn't work. What is your solution?

Sounds like you do this a lot, so you might want to add this as a 2D Component to your drafting catalog.

(I bet your customer does this because of another CAD system they use.)

RE: Drafting Section View Help

you can keep one section view in the first drawing in order to keep the section line in the main view.

Then you copy the section to the second drawing...

Eric N.
indocti discant et ament meminisse periti

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