Surface Xsections in drawings

Hi,
I have an assembly with some solid parts and some parts consisting of
outer surfaces only. The drawing of this does not show the sections
through the surfaces. Is there an easy way to do this and I do not mean
making surfxsurf curves or making thins. On another occasion I
'accidentally' got what I wanted, the sections showed up as white lines
so I know that the functionality is somewhere in there. Does anyone know
how to do this? Proe2001
Thanks

 

My config does not have this option, or anything like it. Can this
be added in some way?

 

: on Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:58:35 GMT, Jeff Howard said...
: > show_quilts_in_total_xsects
: >
: My config does not have this option, or anything like it. Can this
: be added in some way?

First of all, it's in 'Advanced>Drawing Options', not the config.pro (Pro/GOOFY
strikes again!) Second, I can achieve your results by setting the config.pro
options DISPLAY_SILHOUETTE_EDGES and SILHOUETTES to 'no'. (Which one causes it,
I'm not sure.) When set to 'yes' and the section view is placed as 'Wireframe',
the silhouette edges do appear. The drawing option 'show_quilts_in_total_xsects'
seems to have no effect on this. Naturally, there will be no cross section
hatching because surfaces have no thickness. It does not hatch volume, it hatches
material.

David Janes

 

What I wanted was to have a section through some sets of quilts with
the quilt parts beyond the section displayed, the actual section
should ideally be a heavier line. What you have outlined above
gives me the cuts through the part with messy views beyond.

The actual section can be got on its own by advanced setup/crossec
type - new-style, but this appears notoriously unstable, it'll work
on a simple test piece but not on the real work. I ended up doing
masses of pointless intr surfs just to lay out on the drawing. The
model & qlts section already exists in the part, is there any way of
saving this as curves or suchlike for use in the drawing?

 

: on Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:57:06 GMT, David Janes said...
: > First of all, it's in 'Advanced>Drawing Options', not the config.pro
(Pro/GOOFY
: > strikes again!) Second, I can achieve your results by setting the config.pro
: > options DISPLAY_SILHOUETTE_EDGES and SILHOUETTES to 'no'. (Which one causes
it,
: > I'm not sure.) When set to 'yes' and the section view is placed as
'Wireframe',
: > the silhouette edges do appear. The drawing option
'show_quilts_in_total_xsects'
: > seems to have no effect on this. Naturally, there will be no cross section
: > hatching because surfaces have no thickness. It does not hatch volume, it
hatches
: > material.
: >
: >
: What I wanted was to have a section through some sets of quilts with
: the quilt parts beyond the section displayed, the actual section
: should ideally be a heavier line. What you have outlined above
: gives me the cuts through the part with messy views beyond.
:
This can at least be partly solved by setting the view in View Disp to Hidden line
and turning on Quilt HLR to get rid of some of the messy stuff. The heavier
section outline may be a little tougher. As I recall in 2001, you have several
things under Modify view besides View Disp, including Edge Disp. I would suggest
selecting the edges you want displayed with a thicker line and changing the edge
color to one that prints thicker.

David Janes