Use this command to simply select the view where the manual cut is to be created and the cut position and depth. All the available overrides will be optional and accessible using a shortcut key at the view selection step.
Access the command
Labels & Dimensions 
Parametric views:
(Create cut view).
Command line: _AstM4DetManualCut
To create a manual cut view:
- In the Labels & Dimensions tab Parametric views panel, click
(Create cut view).
- The command line will prompt you to select the detail view or access the Settings using the S key:
- Selecting the view where the cut will be created will perform a fast view creation, with no extra steps, using the default view and scale.
- Using the S key, you access the Manual cut view settings dialog that contains the overrides for the view request and scale used by Advance Steel to generate the manual cut view:
Scale This combo box contains all the scales available in Advance Steel and one default scale. The default scale is an intelligent setting that uses the scale of the view selected for the manual cut view. Using the default scale allows you to create manual cut views (that use the scale of the main view) faster, without the need to manually match them afterwards. The Scale field is set to Default. Once you change the scale from this dialog, the change is saved and can be reused for other manual cuts created afterwards until the dialog is accessed and the scale is changed again. Advance Steel memorizes the last used scale until you close the software, defaulting back to the Default value when you reopen Advance Steel. View This combo box contains a list of all the view requests available in Advance Steel - that are used when generating manual cut views. The view requests provide all the settings required for creating the cut view (object presentation, labeling rules, line type, and dimensions). The view requests are located in the Drawing style manager, for each drawing style. You can use the Drawing style manager to make edits to preferred cut views requests, if needed.
Note: The view requests are not drawing styles, they are part of the drawing style and in order to edit them, you need to have a drawing style configured temporarily to use such a view request, for full configuration access.You can find the list of view requests available for manual cuts in the Drawing style manager, at the following level:
In the Manual cut view settings dialog, in the View combo box you can choose between the Advance and User view categories:
By default, Advance Steel sets the view request from a series of defaults found in the Management Tools application. Once you select a view request from the list, it is saved in the local memory and reused for the manual cut view command until you exit Advance Steel, similarly to the scale setting.
- When you are done with making the settings, click OK - this will send the command back to the first step where you are prompted to select the view or, if needed, to reopen the Settings dialog.