Section View Editor Ribbon Contextual Tab Reference

Representation Panel

This panel is visible only when you are editing a section view created from an Inventor model. The options you can view depend on the properties of the selected model. You can only edit the values for Design View.

Appearance Panel

Hidden Lines

Specifies the display style to use for the selected section view.

Scale

Specifies the absolute scale to use for the selected view. You can select a standard scale from the drop-down list, or directly enter a non-standard scale.

Edge Visibility

Displays a list of objects to show in the selected view.

• Interference edges. Displays both hidden and visible edges that are otherwise excluded due to an interference condition.
• Tangent edges. Displays a line to show smooth edges formed by surfaces intersecting tangentially.
• Foreshortened. Shortens the length of tangential edges to differentiate them from visible edges.
• Bend extents. Displays sheet metal bend extent lines. Sheet metal bend extent lines indicate the location of transition about which a bend hinges or folds, in a flattened sheet metal representation.
• Thread features. Displays thread lines on screws and tapped holes.
• Presentation trails. Displays the lines (in drawing views from exploded views) that show the direction along which a components are moved into assembled position.

Cut Inheritance

Specifies if the view created out of a section view inherits the section cut.

View Options

Displays the View Options dialog box. This dialog box specifies how to anchor the section view, and how to display Inventor Reference Parts.

Method Panel

Projection View

Specifies the view type of the section view, normal or orthogonal.

Depth

Specifies the depth of the section view.

• Full. All geometry beyond the section line's cutting plane is included within the section view.
  
• Slice. All geometry beyond the section line’s cutting plane is removed from the section view and the section view represents a thin slice.

  This option is available only after the section view is placed in the layout.

  
• Distance. The geometry between the section line’s cutting line and the distance specified is included within the section view.

  This option is available only after the section view is placed in the layout.

  

Depth Distance

Specifies the depth distance, allowing the geometry beyond the section line's cutting plane to be included or removed from the section view.

This option is available only if the Distance option is selected in Depth.

Annotation Panel

Identifier

Specifies the label for the section line and the resulting section view.

The program always determines from the drawing, the next free section label. Labels I, O, Q, S, X, and Z are excluded by default, however these can be manually overwritten. You can specify the alphabets to be excluded in the Modify Section View Style dialog box.

Show View Label

Specifies if the section view label text is displayed.

Hatch Panel

Show Hatching

Specifies if hatch is displayed in the selected section view. Clicking on the hatch brings up the Drawing View Hatch Editor Contextual Ribbon Tab, where you can edit the hatch properties.

Edit Panel

OK

Saves the changes and exits the Section View Editor ribbon contextual tab.

Cancel

Does not save the changes made, and exits the Section View Editor ribbon contextual tab.

Defer Updates

Prevents the selected drawing view from reacting to a property change until you click OK or turn off Defer Updates. This option is typically used for drawing views of large models, where applying each property change in real time may take time.