To Insert a Broken View
Broken views remove a portion of the model from between two or more selected points, and closes the remaining two portions together within a specified distance. You can break horizontally, vertically, or both, and use various graphic border styles for the breaks. Broken views are only available for general and projection view types. Once a view is defined as broken, it can not be changed to another view type.
1. Open a drawing with a general or a projection view.
2. Double-click an existing view. Alternatively, select a view, right-click and click Properties on the shortcut menu. The Drawing View dialog box opens.
3. Click the Visible Area category. The Visible area options display in the dialog box.
4. Select Broken View from the View visibility list. The options for defining the view area display.
5. Click
to add a break to the view. A row appears in the broken view table. Two lines define one break. The area between the lines will be removed. You can place both directions in the same session, including horizontal and vertical lines.
6. Sketch a horizontal or vertical break line by selecting a geometry reference and then dragging the mouse in the desired direction. Select the geometry reference carefully, since the first break line begins at the point selected. The break line reference is listed under 1st Break Line in the broken view table.
7. Select a point to define the placement of the second break line. The distance between the sketched line and selected point determines how much model geometry is removed from the view. The break line reference is listed under 2nd Break Line in the broken view table.
8. Define how the graphical representation of the break line by selecting a style from the Break Line Style list on broken view table. You may need to scroll or resize the table columns to access the list:
◦ Straight
◦ Sketch
◦ S curve on view outline
◦ S curve on geometry
◦ Heartbeat on view outline
◦ Heartbeat on geometry
9. If necessary, you can define additional breaks by clicking
and repeating steps 5 through 7.
10. You can specify a plane parallel to the screen and exclude all graphics behind it by clicking Clip view in Z-direction and selecting an edge, surface, or datum plane clipping reference that is parallel to the screen. When you perform Z-Clipping in a view, keep in mind the following:
◦ If the reference for the clipping plane cannot be regenerated, Z-Clipping does not take effect for the view (an error message appears).
◦ The Z-Clipping of a detailed view is always the same as that of its parent. You cannot modify it individually.
11. To continue defining other attributes of the drawing view, click Apply and then select the appropriate category. If you have completely defined the drawing view, click OK.
| • You can control the offset distance when you first create a break by setting the broken_view_offset Detail option. The default spacing is 1 drawing unit. To change the spacing, drag one of the subviews, or portions, of the broken view. The space between the sections will increase or decrease proportionally. • To move the entire broken view to a different location on the drawing, select the upper-left sub-view. • If the parent view is redefined to be a broken view, it will have no restrictions as to which direction the breaks can be made or the number of breaks, unless it has projected child views. If it at least one projected view in the horizontal direction and at least one projected view in the vertical direction, Broken View selection is not available in the View Visibility list. • If the parent view is a full view and has at least one projected child view in the horizontal direction and no child view projected in the vertical direction, then the parent view will only have the ability to create break lines (number of breaks in unlimited) in the vertical direction. • If you update the break points of a parent or propagated child broken view, the updated break points are not necessarily propagated to the respective child or parent broken view. • You can redefine a projected view to be broken if its parent view is not broken. However, it can broken according to the following limitations: ◦ Horizontal projections can only use vertical breaks, while vertical projections can only use horizontal breaks. ◦ If the parent view is broken horizontally and you want to redefine a horizontal projection view to broken, the projection view will automatically get the same number of horizontal breaks as its parent view. In fact, the projection parent view's horizontal breaks will be automatically inherited to the projection view. ◦ If the projection parent view is broken but only has vertical breaks, the projection view can only have vertical breaks. |  Similar restrictions are in place for top or bottom projection views if the projection parent has vertical breaks. |
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