Crop a view from another position

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Hello Community,

I'm currently on a multi position crane diagram.

This diagram will be laser engraved and I would like to crop the view from another position to avoid overlapping between views.

Apart from hiding the lines, I don't see how to do it, do you have another solution because by hiding the lines I don't have access to all the lines, as you can see on the inside of the arrow, there are still pieces of jack that I can't hide even by going through the feature manager.

 

Thanks in advance

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Hello 

If you have to laser engrave it, at the limit you can directly modify the dxf created. You save your plan in dxf and you delete the lines you don't need, it's artisanal but it can help.

 

Gauthik

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But removing the traits will remove the entire trait. It's the same as hiding the edge. That's what I'd like to avoid.

But thanks for the tip

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No, if you open the dxf with solidworks you can cut the strokes that you are not interested in with the "Fit Entities" sketch function.

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First of all, the cropping of the multi-position view does not work very well.
If I understand correctly, it is only a position that you want to trim, to my knowledge it is not possible.

I believe that @Gauthik67's solution is the best.

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Hello

What interests you is to have the different positions to engrave them. Why not make a slight removal of material on the piece to be engraved depending on the configurations. You make them in the assembly and you propagate the function to the part in the different positions so that it will be marked...

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It seems to me that it is one of the novelties of 2018 to crop a view from another position

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FYI, cropping multi-position views works and has been around for several versions of SW.

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I bring up this question to share an experience.

it works on SW19, I haven't tested on older versions but it should work too.

The basic problem: if you crop the main view of a view overlay, only this main view is cropped or it's not stable (like at the beginning everything is cropped then you reopen/recalculate the mep and bam it jumps).
What I found: you can crop the added views (by view from another position), to do this you have to right-click on the view to be cropped in the feature manager/freeze the current view, draw the outline, start the cropping, free the view.
So you can crop the main view and the different views added on top of it independently.