The Drive Section View Generation Task will drive the parameters of a given Section View on a Drawing.
Multi-Sheet Drawings
This Tasks requires requires the specified View Name to be on the currently active sheet.
If the Drawing this Task is run on has more than one sheet use the Activate Sheet Task immediately before running this Task.
| Property Name | Description |
|---|---|
| (Name) | The unique name for this task. |
| Auto Hatch | TRUE to automatically hatch the cut Faces, FALSE to use document options. |
| Flip Direction | TRUE to flip direction, FALSE to use current direction. |
| Partial Section | TRUE to only show a partial section, FALSE for full section (only applies if the section line does not fully cut the Model view). |
| Scale Hatch Pattern | TRUE to scale the hatch pattern based on the view scale, FALSE to use document options. |
| Slice Section | TRUE to only see the features/components that are cut by the section line, FALSe to show all features/components cut by the section line and beyond. |
| View Name | The name of the section view to drive. |
When this task is added the properties are both static and dynamic by default.
See How To: Change A Static Property To A Dynamic Property to enable rules to be built on these properties.
| Property Name | Example Rule | Example Result | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto Hatch | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE will automatically hatch me the cut faces. FALSE will use the document options. |
| Flip Direction | TRUE | TRUE | This will flip the direction of the sectioned view. FALSE will use the current direction. |
| Partial Section | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE will show the full section (only applies if the section line does not fully cut the model View) TRUE will only show a partial section. |
| Scale Hatch Pattern | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE will scale the Hatch Pattern based on the view scale. FALSE will use the documents options. |
| Slice Section | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE will show all the Features/Components cut by the section line and beyond. TRUE will only see the Features/ Components that are cut by the section line. |
| View Name | "Section View B-B" | Section View B-B | The name of the Section View to drive |
This Task can be added to SOLIDWORKS Drawings in the following Generation Sequence(s):