Picking silhouette edges in drawings

So anyone have any tricks for making it so you can pick silhouette
cylindrical edges in drawings. Seems SW often will not allow me to do this.
I have found if I take a drawing view that is un-pickable and do a
copy/paste of the view, the copied view is pickable. However this does not
help me very much when your drawing is nearly completed.

Just looking for a good workaround for another long term graphical bug that
they can't seem to fix.

TIA

 

The view has to be active in order to select silhouette edges.

 

I don't think that's it. I have a number of stepped shafts parts with
revolved features and some step silhouettes are pickable and others are not
within the same drawing view with the view made active.

It happens all the time is quite common for me to see.

 

I've had a little luck by re-sizing the bounding box for the view in which I
am trying to select the edge. Sometimes, especially when you modify the
size of the part, the bounding box does not update in the drawing. Making
that box significantly larger than what is actually necessary to fully
accomidate the part, has allowed me to pick some of the more difficult to
select edges.

 

I am not sure but that functionality is not avalible to me in 2005, (the
resizeing of the boundig box of a view in a drawing) did SW in their wisdom
permanetly disable this in 2005 or is there a switch I am missing?

Ben

 

Sorry, I recently switched to 2005 myself and I cannot resize the box
either. I am pretty sure that I recall doing so in previous versions, but I
could be mistaken.
"When the pointer passes over the edge of a drawing view, the view boundary
is highlighted. The boundaries are tightly fitted around the view by
default; you cannot manually resize them. If you add sketch entities to a
drawing view, the boundary automatically resizes to include these items. The
boundary does not resize to include dimensions or annotations. View
boundaries, and the views they contain, can overlap."

Adding sketch entities does not alter the size of the box either.

As an alternate method of dimensioning sillouette edges. Sometimes you are
able to create geometry items and constrain them to those edges even when
not allowed to select them with the dimension tool. You can then dimension
the sketch entity.

 

No dont get me wrong, I could do this (resize view) in 2004 and you are
corect it helped with resizing to select the edges...
Ben