NX 6 Drafting: Creating Section View of a Faceted Representation

[MrMike87]

In drafting mode for NX 6, I wish to be able to create a section view of a faceted representation. By faceted representation, I mean that before placing my base view, I have right clicked > view style > base, and checked "Faceted Representation." I then place my base view. I have found that if I do not do this, the view will take several hours (over a half a day) to place. By using "faceted representation," it only takes 1-3 minutes to place the view.

Now, I want to make a section view of my faceted base view. I have all of my components fully loaded, but when I make a section view, nothing appears. All that shows is the view boundary with Section A-A below it? None of the components show. I do not think it is a layer in view problem because all of the components are on layer one, and layer one is set to visible for the section view. The base view appears correctly. Still, nothing shows in my section view. Is there a way to make the components appear as a proper section view, when the parent is a faceted representation? I noticed that if I set layer 250 to visible, the entire model shows up in the section view in the direction I want, only it is not cut. It shows the full model.

I found this link below, where John Baker says that you can make section views from "faceted representations", but my section views do not show the cut of my base view. In fact, the only way I can get anything to show is by setting layer 250 to visible, but then, it only shows the full model in the same direction of my section cut (but not cutting the model). Please help! I have searched and searched, but I cannot seem to figure it out.

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[Toost]

Can you create a model+drawing from scratch and repeat ?
I.e create a new model and in this create say a block. Create a new drawing part and do the described.
If un-successful - Upload here.

Btw, your views takes half a day to place, Are they full of "very large and very small details" ?
I.e large components with many small components such as fasteners where the fasteners when plotted only will become "black dots" ?
If so, have you tried the "Small features- Hide" option in the view style dialog ?
It can reduce computing time radically and if the "black dots" anyway are "invisible" when plotted there might not be any need to wait for them to compute. - One should judge what one will see when plotted on paper 1:1 and not what you see missing when zooming in NX...

Regards,
Tomas

 

[JohnRBaker]

Of course, this capability is now fully supported starting with NX 8.5 with the option to use 'Smart Lightweight Views', as opposed to 'Faceted Views', when creating large Drawings.

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