cropped view boundary showing 1

[dgowans]

I'm having issues with cropped views. Namely, a portion of the crop boundary is shown after the view is cropped. I've seen this before and can't for the life of me remember how I got rid of it, short of removing and recreating the crop. The drawing I'm working on currently is of a rather large assembly and trying to recreate the crops will be time consuming to say the least.

Any ideas as to why this is happening or how to fix it?

Thanks,
Dave Gowans

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Can you post an image of what you mean?


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[dgowans]

Rather than post an image (not really sure where I might do that), here's a better description:

I've got a view of my assembly, but I'm only interested in a certain portion because I'm documenting the assembly procedure. In order to hide the areas of the assembly I'm not interested in, I draw a closed boundary (3 lines, 1 spline) around the area of interest. The 3 lines are outside the geometry seen in the view, the spline "cuts" the assembly off where I want the view to stop. I then crop the view, but the cropped view now shows part of my sketched crop boundary. This unwanted line is not pickable, so I can't just hide it and go on my way.

This surely isn't a show stopper, merely an annoyance.

If you can point me to a site where I can post an image, I'll gladly do so if this is still unclear.

Dave Gowans

 

[dgowans]

http://img280.imageshack.us/img280/7995/crop9pq.jpg

Or you can just look here.

 

[mncad]

I have had the same issue and turned it into our VAR. He thought maybe it was a video driver issue, but that doesn't seem to affect it. What I have noticed is how you draw the spline makes a difference. Start your spline inside of the part, roughly in the middle of the view, then click the next 3 points outside of the part, then connect to the original start. Every time I draw a spline this way it works, every time I draw it differently I get the results you have.

mncad

 

[dgowans]

mncad,

Thanks - that did the trick. A star for you.....

 

[Heckler]

I think there is a bug in the crop view function. A co-worker drew a circle in a view then cropped view the result was the entire circle stayed instead of the portion that passed through the view. I'm going to be testing that today.

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