- [Instructor] Sometimes when working inside of a drawing,
we don't have a lot of space,
or it's not going to be incredibly clear
if we use a traditional section view.
That's where the broken-out section view
becomes really handy.
A broken-out section view
cuts away a portion of an assembly in a drawing view
to expose the inside to us.
And the crosshatching that we get
with our normal section views
is automatically generated as well.
The only difference is we don't get an additional view.
It just really cuts into an existing view.
So if I go up here to the Drawing tab
and go all the way over to the right,
I see the Broken-out Section view.
And again, you can see here a definition
where it cuts away a portion of an existing view
to expose the inner details.
So I'm going to click broken-out section view,
and you'll see that the spline icon comes up
on my cursor right now.
What we have to do is draw the profile
of where we want to cut out this item.
So I'm going to start drawing a spline
with a couple of clicks,
close it and now you can see the property manager
switches over and asked us
how deep do you want to cut this?
Now I want to look at the center of these two holes.
This is 0.75 deep from the outside edge.
I could go down here to this dimension and put in 0.75.
But another thing that's really handy that you can do
is go to another view that's attached to it
with the parent-child reference and select an entity on it.
And it will cut up into that entity.
So I'm going to select the center of this hole right here,
and just click on that.
Hit okay, and now you see I've cut all the way
to the center of that hole,
giving me the nice outline of my counterbore
and my through hole.
And you can see here, too,
that if I zoom in, it basically went to the end.
Let's expand this out.
So here's that broken-out section view.
So here's the profile that we cut at that depth.
It only cuts if we go up here this far into the material.
So then, if we go back down to the original view,
that's where it ends the cut.
Now, if we want to go deeper,
I'm going to right-click on this in my feature tree
and say edit definition.
And this time I'm going to go all the way
up to this edge instead and hit okay.
Now you can see how the profile of that spline
comes into play.
We see the automatic crosshatching,
where it cut into the material.
It's up to this edge,
so it actually didn't go into the material right there.
So we don't have any crosshatching.
But now, if we click on this broken-out section view,
we can see how the spline cuts through right here.
And we can see that representative edge
where it's cutting into the part.
So very cool feature.
If you've got to show the internals of a component
and it's not the most straight forward thing,
go ahead and use the broken-out section view.