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MikeJ851-Visitor
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January 8, 2018
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Creating a partial or broken view for a single part inside a sub-assembly drawing.

  • January 8, 2018
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Hello all.  Hoping you can help me find a solution to a drawing view problem we are having  Using Creo 3.0. 

 

I have a sub-assembly that, depending on the configuration, has a single part which can protrude out much further than the main components of the sub-assembly.  This forces us to scale the entire sub-assembly down to fit it into the bounds of the drawing sheet.

 

  The part is rather minor as far as representing it in the drawing, and what I would like to do is find a way to do a partial or broken view of JUST the part in the sub-assembly drawing so I can keep the view scaled larger than I would be able to with the full part being visible.  Moving the part to another sub-assembly would not be an option, and I would rather not hide it either.

 

Is there a solution for this?  Thanks in advance!

 

A dumbed-down representation.  The main body represents a bundle of many parts, while the protrusion represents a single part that extends away from the majority of the sub-assembly.  Depending on the configuration of this sub-assembly, the part in question can be much longer or shorter.

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StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
January 8, 2018

In the view properties under visible area, you can use broken view or partial view.

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MikeJ851-VisitorAuthor
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January 8, 2018

The issue is that this sub-assembly is used heavily on many different assemblies and configurations.  many (most) times, this part is not even used.  I was hoping there was a way to control this from a part level, rather than the overall sub-assembly.  Further, I don't want to display a partial or broken view of the part on the part-level drawing.  Only want to show partial/broken view of the part when it is present at the sub-assembly level. 

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23-Emerald III
StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
January 8, 2018

broken-view-2.jpg

You would be controlling this in the drawing view, it only affects the view that is set to broken view (or partial view).

So you would set the assembly view in question to broken. It has zero affect on the part or assembly model.

 

 

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dgschaefer21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
January 8, 2018

What about using a partial view with the boundary set to the main part of the assy.  When this part isn't present, it'll just look like a normal view, when it is a spline will show indicating that it's cut off.  This assumes that you don't need to see the part of that component which is cut off.

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MikeJ851-VisitorAuthor
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January 8, 2018
@dgschaefer wrote:

What about using a partial view with the boundary set to the main part of the assy.  When this part isn't present, it'll just look like a normal view, when it is a spline will show indicating that it's cut off.  This assumes that you don't need to see the part of that component which is cut off.


This is sort of where I was leaning, however I would have to do a lot of testing on all of the different configurations to be sure that I didn't clip anything out that I didn't want to.  It also does throw in a constraint that we would always have to be conscious of, which I would like to avoid, but may be the only option.  Thanks for the suggestion.

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