Broken Views

Hello All,

I have a simple question (OK Wayne you're on.

What I want is the opposite if a broken view, where instead of breaking
out the middle and leaving the end, I want to break off the ends and
leave the middle. Before you suggest that I use a Detail View I (read
the client) want the "jog" lines instead of the circle or box look.

TIA,
Muggs

 

You can put two breaks in a single view. This way you can show the
middle part and just a small portion of the ends.

Detail views can be set to use the sketched border, so if you sketch
the border with a series of ragged lines, you may get the effect you
seek.

 

Would that not be "crop" that you are desiring?

WT

 

I do that with 2 breaks as suggested, that way you don't have to draw
that stylish break-line zig-zag!

 

Using two breaks in a single view is a method I've used for this
purpose more than once.

Matt
sw.fcsuper.com

 

Muggs,
Add your break lines as you usually do, then drag one of the breaks
off of the part.
Works for me. It even works with 2 breaks so that neither end of the
part is displayed.
Eddie

 

Thanks everyone.

Two broken views did the trick. You know, it's funny, I tried to do two
broken views before i asked, and after the first one, I RMB'ed the
drawing view and Broken View was not available to me in menu the second
time.

Anyway, thanks all.
Muggs

 

So what does this technique do that crop doesn't? I haven't compared them,
but is one faster than the other? Is there any difference in rebuild with
one or the other? I had always just figured that the crop view was written
to do just that, so why use double breaks? If it's faster, then I may start
doing it that way instead.

WT

 

Wayne,
To tell you the truth, I do not know if one is faster or more
efficient than the other. I have never used a double break to eliminate
both ends. I have used triple breaks on very long parts having detail
on both ends & the middle.
In reality, if I needed to show the middle of a part w/o either end,
I'd consider it a detail view.
As far as cropped views go, they are most useful when a view (Ex:
Front) is shown, then an end view (right or left) followed by another
projection (Ex: Back), where the back view is identical to the front
except for one specific detail.
One of my favorites is to use a broken out section by enclosing an
entire view in order to create a full section. In my work a single full
section view is all that's required for many cylindrical parts. This is
totally acceptable per ASME standards.
Eddie

 

Hey Wayne,

I almost always use Detail View using a circle but this client wanted
"what was on the example" and that had what I described.
I tried crop but I could only use a circle, a rectangle or draw my own.

Muggs

 

It was the "draw my own" that I was suggesting that you had the option of
using to create any shape desired. Throw a few squiggles around it, and
away you go.

WT