Getting part and assembly section views into drawings

[MesaTactical]

I have a requirement to produce vector line drawings of my SolidWorks assembly sections. What I need to do is produce a section view of the assembly in SolidWorks, then export that section view to a drawing (after which I save the drawing as a DWG file for further manipulations).

The problem is that whenever I am in the drawing and I try to import "Current Drawing View," it imports the unsectioned model. I can't seem to find a way to import the model in its section view.

I have been fooling around with making section views in the drawing itself, but this is really cumbersome with an isometric projection. It would be far easier to simply export the view from within the SolidWorks assembly.

Any ideas? Is there a setting I can flip somewhere?

 

[Scorch]

You can make a configuration and make an assembly cut within that assembly and position your assembly and import the current model view into your drawing.

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[ctopher]

Scorch is correct. That is how we do it. SolidWorks will not let you insert a sectioned model view. Turn in a enhancement request.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
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[MesaTactical]

That's the ticket.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Jakek]

Before all is said and done...

Check this out: If you want to just save the section view as a .dwg file. Create a new sheet in your drawing file - go back to the sheet with the section view on it - grab the view from the feature tree - drag the view onto the new sheet (in the feature tree) - go to the new sheet and save as a .dwg file.

This will only save the current sheet.

 

[macPT]

Maybe I'm not understanding your problem, but shouldn't a Broken-out Section solve it?

Regards