To Work with Crop View Operations

Crop operations clip drawing views with a defined boundary.

You can perform a crop operation on existing views except for the following view types:

• Views containing a view break (broken view)
• Views with overlays
• Suppressed views
• Views that are already cropped

On the cropped views, you can perform the following view operations:

• Break Out view
• Detail view
• Slice operation

You can perform crop operations on a view with circular or rectangular shapes or a predefined view sketch. An existing view sketch that qualifies as a crop sketch can be used to crop a view. To qualify as a crop sketch, the sketch must contain a single non self-intersecting loop and be associated with the view.

Before you execute a crop operation, you first select the type of boundary (circular or rectangular). A circular boundary can be specified by a center point of circle and a point on the circle. A rectangular boundary can be specified by two points that define the diagonal of the rectangle.

The boundary type selected directly in the context menu is applied to a particular crop operation. The boundary type selected in the Crop Settings dialog box is set as a default type for the next crop operations.

Guidelines for Crop View Operation

• Cropped views are created by altering established drawing views. The views can be part, assembly, projected, isometric, section, or slice.
• Crop operations support all types of drawing annotations. Annotations can be anchored to endpoints of cropped geometry including edges produced from the crop edges, if they are displayed.
• Crop affects existing sheet dimensions and centerlines and center marks of all types. When annotation anchors are lost, annotations become sick.

Perform a Crop Operation from a View

1. On the ribbon, click Place Views tab Modify panel Crop ().
2. Select the view to crop.
3. (Optional) To modify the crop view:
   • To change the default settings for the crop boundary type, right click and then click Circular or Rectangular.
   • To change the default setting for the crop boundary, right-click and then click t Crop Settings. Then in the Crop Settings dialog, specify the default boundary type and set the display of the cut lines.
4. Define the crop boundary. Specify a center and radius for a circular border, or two corners for a rectangular border.
5. Depending on the selected boundary type, specify the center for a circular boundary or two corners for a rectangular boundary.

Perform a Crop Operation Using an Existing Sketch

1. On the ribbon, click Place Views tab Modify panel Crop ().
2. Select the associated sketch.
3. Create any sketch geometry that forms a single non self-intersecting loop to define the boundaries for the crop operation.

Edit a Crop Sketch

Model geometry can be projected into sketches used for cropping. If the model geometry changes, the crop sketch may become invalid for cropping.

If the sketch is still valid for cropping, the view updates to accommodate the changes to the sketch. If the sketch is no longer valid for cropping, then a dialog appears showing the reason the sketch is invalid. You can cancel the edit and continue in the sketch environment or click Continue to exit the sketch environment. Exiting the sketch environment with an invalid sketch marks the crop node with a warning icon and the view is not cropped.

You can edit crop sketches just like any other view sketch. When you leave the existing sketch environment the sketch is validated for cropping.

• Open the corresponding crop node in the browser, select the sketch, right-click and then select Edit.