Broken out Section within a Detail view

[SBaugh]

I know Solidworks cannot accomplish a Broken out section in Detail view, but my question is why is this not a valid drawing View type and why does Solidworks not introduce this? I know when I used the board back in College and few of my older Colleagues were still on the board within the Company, they said they made Detail views with Broken out sections. The current workaround is to make a Broken out section in the parent and then Detail it... that makes for a pain. I want to see the Inside within the Detail or even a portion of the inside, but see the full outside of the view. This allows me to add dimensions to the outside of the part, then add Dimensions to the Inside of the part within the Detail view for better clarification and less views which saves on space and better reflects my design.

Does anyone have ASME or ANSI standard Documentation stating this type of view is not an acceptable in the Engineering world?

Scott Baugh, CSWP
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer
GEASWUG Greater Evansville Area SWUG Leader

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

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[handleman]

Wanna break stuff? You sorta can create a broken out section on a detail view using the attached macro. It doesn't actually work properly, but it does put some interesting stuff in the feature manager tree.

To run the macro, draw your broken-out section profile on any view. Then, with the drawn profile selected, run the macro. It will ask you for a depth. There's no preview or anything, so you kinda have to guess at one. On a normal view that's valid for broken out section creation it will create a regular broken out section. On a detail view, it adds some interesting stuff like a cut feature, an external referenced body, and other stuff into the feature tree. You can RMB on the tree and do things like show/hide hidden edges and you can see where it's actually partway finished creating the B.O.S., but it doesn't finish for some reason. Oh, and you can't delete it from the tree either, so of course don't do this to a drawing you need. After I messed around with the tree a while it also crashed Solidworks.

Anyway, a little bit of interesting under-the-hood stuff.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[ctopher]

Scott,
I agree. I have asked for this feature a few times several years ago.
It doesn't seem too important to them, or too many users that don't know how to do drawings.

Chris
SolidWorks 13
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[SBaugh]

ctopher - Do you have any legal ASME or ANSI documentation that supports that sort of view? If I could find that some where I present to them ASAP!

handleman - I will try it out ... thanks!


Scott Baugh, CSWP
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer
GEASWUG Greater Evansville Area SWUG Leader

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

faq731-376

 

[ctopher]

Scott,
No, I don't. I have asked around, nobody seems to know if it's in any standard. Which tells me it's not.

Chris
SolidWorks 13
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion