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MikeFreitag1-Visitor
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September 29, 2016
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Creating a section of internal components of a Creo assembly causes the initial section to disappear.

  • September 29, 2016
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I have a Creo 3d assembly model in which I want to create a section thru some internal components.  I have a cross section thru the entire assembly.  When I activate that cross section and go to create a new cross section referencing one of the internal parts, the original main cross section is undone and I can't see inside.

PTC tells me this is normal functionality.


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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
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September 29, 2016

You should be able to mix a general section with a local section.

Not immediately obvious, but I'm pretty sure I've done it before.

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dschenken1-Visitor
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September 29, 2016

On the drawing you can add local sections to a section view, but in the assembly it deals with one at a time. You can place the components that obstruct the view on a layer and then blank that layer in order to ease making the new internal-part section. I think it can be done with a simplified rep, but I don't recall if it results in the section depending on the simplified rep in some way.

AFAIK it is normal.

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MikeFreitag1-VisitorAuthor
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September 30, 2016

This problem is happening within the 3D assembly, not within the drawing. 

PTC recommends creating a zone (I haven't done this before) cross section to show the internals.

I just hide the offending components.

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