Have a look at the broken out section view command. You will need the usual orthographic view to draw a cutting profile that will be applied to the isometric view.
Looks like this is only available in the draft environment, not part. Is that right?
I ask because I'm currently doing a trial of SW, and they have a tool for creating a section view while in the part modeling environment. It was easy to use and pretty impressive (there were handles for moving the cutting plane around). I was curious if SE had something similar.
To honest, I'm not sure how useful that really is. Usually you use section views in the context of an assembly or drawing, and I believe SE can do that. So it's not really show stopper.
There's something similar in the part modeling environment, it's the Clipping planes through the View menu. Not sure if it's called that, I'm on a French version.
It doesn't seem as well thought out as SW though. You can't control them with handles.
Try the section command in part or in the assembly environment.
You can make really nice things with it.
even better you can use the sections in your draft.
And it works something like this,
First select the plane for sectioning
Than sketch the section.
Choose inside/outside material removal
And at least select the depth.
The View > Set Planes command is the equivalent of what I was seeing in SW. Even though it doesn't have handles, in "dynamic" mode you can move the cutting planes around and get the same effect. The SW version is a little easier to use (just one button to click) but not as flexible (which I'm finding is true of the two applications in general).
The section command is pretty cool. I didn't realize SE had that. I did a quarter cutout of a simple part I put together (just to test it) and was impressed with the result. I'm sure SW has something similar, but I haven't found it yet.
In Part/assembly it's View > Section
To get the cutaway view into draft, apply the section view, then go PMI > Model View.
This should automatically add the cutaway to the PMI stuff.
If you want to apply the cutaway view to a draft view, place the view then on the View > Properties > Sections select the section to apply.
At a previous job the main assemblies were 25K parts and to keep the drawing size down we put one view per draft file.
Some sheets were purely a section through the machine, which meant having a source view to cut the section.
I started using the section view command in assembly to get away from having to have the source view.
By the way, you can fold another view from a sectioned view and it will maintain the section.
