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jo'sullivan1-Visitor
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April 19, 2017
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Is there a way to exclude partial areas of individual parts in an assembly section whilst maintaining the full section on the remaining areas and on all other parts

  • April 19, 2017
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Is there a way to exclude partial areas of individual parts in an assembly section whilst maintaining the full section on the remaining areas and on all other parts?

The control of these Part Partial Sections would preferably be by a Datum.

Obviously am fully aware of the Partial Section command however this does no offer my requirements.

I have created a simplified example below:

Creo Cross-section.JPG

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tgriffin1-Visitor
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April 19, 2017

When creating a cross section within an assembly, in the "Models" flyout you can choose what components will be included or excluded from the cross section, then you can include multiple cross sections within the drawing view.

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jo'sullivan1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 19, 2017

Many thanks for taking the time to answer.

The 'Include/Exclude' function does not allow the control of a 'Partial' section for an individual part in full section assembly!

Below is an image I created using extrudes to represent what I am trying to achieve.

The RED shows the desired areas for the section and would be visible in the drawing.

Full and partial Cross-section.jpg

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tgriffin1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 19, 2017

For the above example use an offset cross section and a planar cross section and set what components to use within each in the models flyout.

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jo'sullivan1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 19, 2017

I essentially want the drawing to show the cross-section excluding the area of Part B within the RED boundarycross-section.JPG

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mender12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
April 20, 2017

You can kind of do it with a local xsec, tracing very carefully between the parts, in the example shown.  Might not be possible in a more complex case.  A bit better would be a full (xsec A) and local (xsec A2, which is the same datum as A, but excluding the one part) with the local border running up the middle and enclosing the left side of the view.  A thoroughly strange approach would be a pair of half views, aligned (view properties>origin tab), with the two xsecs noted.

I would be interested in knowing if this case shows up in any standard.

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