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broken-out section view in a detail view? 1

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cmm

Mechanical
Jan 11, 2002
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Has anyone succeeded in making a broken-out section view within a detail view using sw2006sp5? I can make a broken-out section view in the view the detail view references, and it then appears in the detail view, but I want the broken-out section view to be in the detail view only. Thanks.

Chris Montgomery
Mechanical Engineer
 
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My head hurts!!!

So you want to create a broken-out section view from a detail view which has been made from a normal view ... right?
Detail and Broken-out views can be problematic at the best of times ... combining them is asking for trouble.

Make a copy of the parent view.
Create the broken-out section.
Crop the view to suit.
Enlarge the scale to suit.

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cmm...I’m not sure of or fully understand the question…you may want to re-word it for clarification but I think you’re trying to create a ‘broken out section’ view from a ‘detail view’…as in Detail ‘A’ or possibly Section ‘B-B’. If so then SolidWorks doesn’t let you do this. I get this message when I try to do a ‘broken out section’ from a detail view in SW2007…”Broken out section view may not be created on a detail, section, or alternate position” and then the ‘broken out’ section icon dims and can’t be selected. This might be obvious but if I can’t perform the action in SW2007, it’s possible it can’t be done in SW2006 either. Maybe someone else knows differently…

Edson Gebo
Mechanical Designer/Drafter
SW2007 SP2.0
Cadra 2006 (yup 2D still exists)
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You seem to be correct edsongebo. SW2006 doesn't give an error message, hence my confusion.

Chris Montgomery
Mechanical Engineer
 
Try creating a new drawing view, then do the break-out section. Then after that, sketch a circle and try doing a cropped view.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.0 on WinXP SP2

 
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Edson Gebo
Mechanical Designer/Drafter
SW2007 SP2.0
Cadra 2006 (yup 2D still exists)
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