Creating a Curve Section View or Cut

You can create a section view or a section cut using a 3D spline.

Before you begin:
  • Open a product containing a 3D part with a 3D spline and a drawing representation.
  • Activate the front view in the drawing (double-click the view to activate).
  • Tile your windows vertically to see both your part and the related drawing.
See Also
About Sections
Creating an Offset Section View/Cut
Creating an Aligned Section View/Cut
Creating Sections Using Alternative Methods
  1. From the View Layout section of the action bar, click Curve Section View or Curve Section Cut .

    In the Creation Options panel, you can select the graphic properties and the operator specifications that you can propagate to this view from its reference view. If the Disable generative view style usage check box is cleared in Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling > Mechanical Systems > Drafting > Administration tab, then you can also apply the available generative view styles to this view. For more information, see Creating a View using Generative View Styles.

  2. Go to the 3D window and select the 3D spline.
  3. In the Section Depth dialog box, select the Depth check box and specify the required depth value.

    The Section Depth dialog box is available only for the curve section view command.

    If you clear the Depth check box, the section view is created with full depth.

  4. Click at the required location to position the view .
  5. To edit the depth value, right-click the section view and select Edit Section Depth from XXXobject > View Definition.

    When the section view is created with full depth, a value of estimated farthest distance of element from section profile is provided.

    You can select the Depth check box and edit the value.

    Notes:
    • The value entered in the Depth box is saved for next usage.
    • The Edit Section Depth dialog box is available only for the curve section view command.
    • The depth value cannot be zero.
    • SAG is the approximation used to create the polyline from the 3D spline. The default value is 1mm and this value is not editable.

  6. To modify the 3D spline curve, go to the 3D window and edit it.
  7. Click Update current sheet .
    The view is updated according to the modified spline.
    Notes:
    • The frame of the active view adapts to the length of the 3D spline.
    • When you create a clipping view and clipping view profile, the callout is not visible.
    • When you edit the 2D callout, it is not in sync with the 3D spline curve. Synchronizing the view from the contextual menu retains the associativity of the callout with 3D Spline. Right-click the section view/cut frame and select XXX object > Synchronize View Definition.
    • The dimensions created are associative only when the view is not in sync with the 3D spline curve.