Section View Problems

Note: I am using SW2004 Sp1

When I try to create a section view in a drawing of an assembly, things show
up in the section view that were hidden in the model of the assembly. The
individual models look fine. The sub-assemblies look fine. The complete
assembly looks fine. The section view looks like crap! Help!

 

No surfaces. What is showing up is parts that I used to make sketches off of
to produce geometry on other parts, and then hid in that part file.

 

If You have surfaces in some parts that are nott hidden in the assy they
will show up in the section view

Krister

 

Hmm....no more bells ringing here.....have You tried to hide them in the
drawing....find them in the tree for the specific view, right klick and take
show/hide... hide component

Krister

 

Or are You using several configs and have a config with not hidden part in
that view ?

Krister L

 

Yes, I've tried this, but when I right click it only gives me the option to
hide the body that it was hidden within, so then it hides more than I want
it to hide.

 

Nope, already checked that out. This is soooooo fun!

 

Whole parts that I used in other parts to create sketch geometry with, and
then hid.

 

I don't know. Are you telling me to go back to SP0? I don't think I can
since I've done this whole job in SP1.

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I'm not sure I really follow You here.....exactly what is showing up in the
section view, and no supposed to be there ....whole parts or just sketches
in parts

Krister L

 

You "should" be able to step back to SP1 or SP0 and back to SP2 with no
problems.

But, then, you are dealing with consistently inconsistent software,
SolidWorks.

...

 

And You're sure You didn't use any offset surfaces to cut with or extend to
....which now are not hidden

Krister

 

No offset surfaces that I know of.

 

Then I'm out of ideas ..sorry

Krister

 

OK, I've got this figured out. I'm obviously a newby making newby mistakes.
The method that Kman described in his first post is the way that it SHOULD
be done. The way that I did it was to insert a part into a PART (not an
ASSEMBLY). Create the new part from edges of the first part. Hide the first
part. Both methods LOOK the same in a model, but when you go to create a
section view in a drawing, that's when the difference becomes obvious.
Solidworks still sees the hidden part in a part, and shows it in the
section.
So, the moral of this story is: don't insert a part into a part to make a
completely different part. Insert it into an assembly, and make the new part
in context.

Thanks to all who responded, and sorry for wasting your time on a dumb
mistake.