About Clippings

A clipping is similar to a detail view. It is a partial generated view that shows only what is necessary in the clear description of the object. The difference between a clipping and a detail view is that the clipping replaces the primary view, whereas a detail view is created in addition.

Important: Quick Clippings have a specific behavior: The whole clipping profile is always drawn in the view. Updating the view may be more or less time-consuming depending on the amount of geometry contained in the view.

This sub-topic provides information about the specifications applicable to clipping views and clipping view profiles.

Once a clipping is applied to a view it is possible to create detail views, quick detail views, and breakout views from this view.

Once a clipping has been applied on a section or an auxiliary view, modifying the section or the auxiliary view profile may lead to an update error if this modification places all of the generated geometry outside the clipping profile.

If you modify the graphic dress-up properties of clipping operator profile lines in the clipping view, then, they remain persistent even after updating the view and get applied to all the remaining profile lines of that clipping view.

If you select any profile line of a clipping operator profile in the clipping view, and modify its graphic properties such as color, linetype, linethickness, delete, layer and hide/show, and update the view or use c:force update, then all the remaining profile lines of that clipping operator in that clipping view are assigned with the new graphic dress-up properties.