broke out section depth

[grunt58]

At what point/face does a broke out section start? I have a 4" dia tube as the farthest out feature on my part. I want to show a broken out section cutting the 4" dia in half to define some internal features. I would assume my depth would be 2". SolidWorks is saying it's 2.828". Where is the 2.828" starting at? Picture attached, the broke out section is in the bottom view.

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[adamgnt]

It looks to me like the section is correctly cut at it's centerline as intended. I would guess that the broken out section is simply cutting the material beyond it's limit, i.e. think of doing an excessive blind extrude cut vs. a through all extrude cut. Your property manager shows no selection of the cut out source, is it the contruction line? If so it would seem to be indicated by the yellow line towards the horizontal center, representing a XZ plane facing downwards.

 

[grunt58]

Yes it is cut correctly the 2.5" dim shown in the lower view is the correct ID. I just don't understand why the depth of cut is 2.828". To me that seems to be an arbitrary dimension. The source sketch is a rectangle in the lower view. The broke out section projects the depth with the yellow inline in relative views so you can see what the depth is. Again I don't understand why the depth of cut would be 2.828" when my farthest feature is the 4" tube. The 4" tube cut in half would be 2" why 2.828"?

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

I tried to reproduce the problem, but my depth of cut showed correctly at 2".

Can you ZIP and post the part & drawing to investigate?

 

[grunt58]

My apologies, it is an assembly drawing not a part drawing. I did a quick part drawing test and everything worked as expected. Same with a weldment in an assembly drawing worked as expected. I'd like to post the files but I'm new and not sure on posting file policies. I'm guessing being an assembly and a weldment part being the broke out section is leading to the problem. I'll test some more when I get a chance.

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[Updraft]

grunt58,

Since you are dealing with an assembly perhaps the scope of the section is leaving some things out.

- - -Updraft

 

[marshell]

For ease you could chose the "depth" box in the tree, and chose the hole in the top view (Instead of specifying a specific depth). This will keep the depth parametrically linked to the hole.

 

[ctopher]

Pick a center, or circle edge in another view, it will select the center to cut to.

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