I have noticed that I can no more change the size of the broken dashed border/ outline of a view in a drawing in SW 2005 . Is it that SW has lost that particular option in the 2005 version or do I need to check any system option for that?
So I understand that I can no longer resize a view border and am looking for another way to accomplish this.
I have a rather large (geometrically, not number of components) which I need to produce assembly instructions for. I have created configurations in which I have cut away (using assembly cuts) geometry which I don't want to show on my drawing. My assembly is of a bunch of trim components which get mounted on a wall. I have the wall modeled showing corners and such and the assembly cuts remove portions of the wall I am not concentrating on. The components I'm not interested in are hidden.
My problem is that the view borders are sized as if the entire assembly is visible. This poses a problem because adjacent views overlap and it's a total crap shoot as to which view notes are being placed in. I know I could lock view focus every time I'm working in a particular view, but that gets to be a pain.
On your drawing view try croping the view by first drawing a box, circle, etc.(as long as it completes a closed entity) around what you want to be visible and the select crop from your drawing toolbar.
You can also crop exploded views by doing the following:
After inserting your exploded view use a square, circle or polygon to define your crop area, and then right-click. Go to properties for that view and uncheck "Show in Exploded State". Crop the view as you normally would. Right-click on the view again, go back to properties and check "Show in Exploded State".
Hope this all made sense.
Best Regards,
Jon
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