Problem with cropped views in SW assemblies

Hello all,

I found what appears to be a glitch in SW drawings when attempting to
crop a view. The entire crop outline shows up on the drawing instead
of only the part that intersects the models. Specifically, this occurs

when cropping an assembly drawing view, when referencing a Display
State with hidden components. I have created a very simple example if
someone can tell me how/where to post the files, I would love to get
some feedback on this issue, and see if there might be a work around.
My guess is that if I used configurations to hide components (the old
way), that this problem would go away, but I have begun using Display
States recently, and am trying to make them work if possible. Any help

would be greatly appreciated.

Update: Apparently using configurations vs. Display States makes no
difference. The problem exists either way with assembly components
hidden. Suppressing them is the only way I've found to fix the
problem, however this is not an option for me in my "real-life"
example, since I have inter-part relationships which would be affected.

Any ideas???

 

Can anyone suggest a way for me to post some example files to the group
for help with this issue? I'm a bit stuck since my drawing view needs
to be cropped, but the result does not look right. My only other
solution is to export the finished drawing to AutoCAD and then manually
edit the visible crop boundary for the sake of a good plot, however
this is obviously not the best case scenario, as text and dimensions do
not always look the same when exported to .dxf/.dwg. Please provide
any suggestions you may have.

Thanks,

-JOSH

 

you might try putting files on www.foldershare.com

i haven't tried it myself, so you're on your own.

bill

 

Okay,

I figured out how to post files using my existing Yahoo! Briefcase.
Please find my example files zipped at the URL below...

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/

Please advise if anyone has a workaround or fix for the above mentioned
problem.

Thanks!

-JOSH

 

Is your problem only occuring when you have hidden parts that overlap
the border of your crop? If this is the case, then I don't believe you
will find a work around, becuase SWs is doing exactly what it should
do. Those parts are hidden, but are still being evaluated, so it should
show the crop edges.
If you problem is occuring when your crop goes completely outside of
your assembly area, then I don't know what to tell you, becuase I have
never seen that.

 

I can understand why SolidWorks is doing this when parts are simply
hidden, however if they are suppressed, wouldn't this be a different
scenario? The only thing I can think of is to create a duplicate
assembly minus the parts that I don't want to show, and then use it to
create the cropped drawing view. While I think this would work, I
don't think it is the best practice, since then I would need to
maintain updates in two separate assemblies. Still pondering...Has
anyone else seen this problem?

-JOSH