Did you ever think about Suppressing all components but those you need, and THEN doing a sectioned cut? Hiding parts really doesn't do anything but, well, hide the parts. Suppressing removes them from the immediate memory and hence the parts will not need to be resolved.
I don't really...
In an attempt to shrink the file sizes of my large assemblies, I have been toying with saving copies, or saving the files under a new name. For some reason this dramatically lowers the overall file size.
I have had success in doing so by using the save as feature and playing with the...
I have come to realize that parts used in a major (iterative) design seem to grow larger in file size during the assembly's progression. For example, I downloaded a 3 MB ball valve and attempted to simplify the part be cutting/removing the modeled screw thread. I assumed that by removing...