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What Are Clippings?
A clipping is similar to a detail view. It is a partial generated view that shows only what is necessary in the clear description of the object. The difference between a clipping and a detail view is that the clipping replaces the primary view, whereas a detail view is created in addition.
Note: The Clipping View and Clipping View Profile commands use a Boolean operator from the 3D whereas the Quick Clipping View and Quick Clipping View Profilecommands compute the view directly from the 2D projection. The representation is therefore different.
Important:
Quick Clippings have a specific behavior:
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Specifications Applicable to Clippings
This sub-topic provides information about the specifications applicable to clipping views and clipping view profiles.
Once a clipping is applied to a view:
- It is possible to create detail and quick detail views from this view.
- It is impossible to create detail views, breakout views and broken views from this view.
Once a clipping is applied on a section, detail or auxiliary view, modifying the section, detail or auxiliary view profile may lead to an update error if this modification places all of the generated geometry outside the clipping profile.
Miscellaneous
This sub-topic provides miscellaneous information about clipping views and clipping view profiles.
Unclipping
You can remove a clipping view, even after modifying it. In the contextual menu, select .
Note: When unclipping a view, any dimensions which were hidden do not reappear. To visualize them, proceed as explained from step 4 to 7 in Creating a Clipping View/Clipping View Profile or Creating a Quick Clipping View/Quick Clipping View Profile.
Dimensions
You can create dimensions interactively (that is, manually) or generate automatically.
The color used for dimensions depends on whether the dimension is interactive (that is, created manually) or generated automatically:
- Interactive dimensions are displayed using the color defined for dimensions on non-visible geometry (light blue by default).
- Generated dimensions are displayed using the color defined for dimensions generated from 3D constraints (light green by default).
About Graphic Dress-Up Properties of Clipping View Profiles
If you modify the graphic dress-up properties of clipping operator profile lines in the clipping view, then, they remain persistent even after updating the view and get applied to all the remaining profile lines of that clipping view.
Note: Persistency of graphic dress-up properties is available only for views created using the Exact or the Approximate mode of view projection.
If you select any profile line of a clipping operator profile in the clipping view, and modify its graphic properties such as color, linetype, linethickness, delete, layer and hide/show, and update the view or use c:force update, then all the remaining profile lines of that clipping operator in that clipping view are assigned with the new graphic dress-up properties.
Note: The graphic properties of the clipping operator profile lines in clipping view modified through the Edit > Properties or through the Graphic Properties toolbar take precedence over overloading of the graphic properties done using the contextual command XXX object > Overload Properties.
Switching Between Exact and Approximate View Modes
- The graphic dress-up properties for the operators are maintained independently for Exact and Approximate view modes. Therefore, if you switch between these two view modes, you can visualize the latest set of modified graphic dress-up properties for those particular operator profile lines in that particular view mode. However, if there is no last modification available for those operator profile lines for that view mode, then the default properties set in the standard for that operator in that view mode are seen.
- For example, you can assign one set of graphic dress-up values for the clipping operator in exact view mode and another set of graphic dress-up values for the same clipping operator in approximate view mode. When you switch between exact and approximate view modes, you can visualize the profile lines of that same clipping operator differently.