Editing Breaks of Projections and Drawing Views

The Edit Breaks command is available in the contextual menu of projections and drawing views. It provides extended capabilities of breaks editing, compared to the 2D Projection command. Upon calling the Edit Breaks you can add and edit breaks using manipulators in the same manner as described in the Adding Breaks, when Creating Projections and Drawing Views section. In the meantime, the command's parameters window contains the Breaks and Exclusions tabs, and the automenu contains following options:

Exit the command and save changes.

The center of projection is used as the base point by default. You can select custom base point using this option. Upon activating the option, move the cursor over the desired location in the drawing and click . The base point marker will be relocated to the selected location, and breaks positions will be recalculated in new coordinates if necessary. You can either place the base point in an arbitrary location in a drawing, or snap it to the existing 2D object. Use the Filter toolbar for controlling the object snapping. Snapping the base point to an existing object doesn't create an associative link, i.e. further changes in position of a selected object do not affect the position of the base point.

As an alternative to manual defining of breaks angle, you can link the angle to an existing construction line belonging to the current projection. Activate this option and select the desired line. The Direction line box of the parameters window will indicate the icon and name of the selected line, and the Angle of breaks will be defined as the angle between the selected line and the horizontal direction. The associative link is created between the angle of the line and angle of the breaks.

If you activate the line selection option, when a line is already selected, then the following option will be available:

This option breaks the link between the breaks angle and the construction line. Alternatively, you can break the link using the Clear button located in the right side of the Direction Line input box in the parameters window.

By default, break lines are drawn only between outermost graphic lines on drawing views not linked to the 3D model (or get extended beyond that at the specified distance, if the Length of Extension Lines checkbox is enabled). Drawing detailing elements (dimensions, texts, etc.) and graphic lines with the Don't trim exclusion are ignored, when calculating endpoints of break lines. Upon activating this option, you can manually select two graphic or construction lines (straight, spline, function) that will define the endpoints of break lines. Selected lines are highlighted in red during breaks editing. This option is non-applicable to 2D projections of 3D model. After selecting lines, following option becomes available:

This option is available only in the lines selection mode, which is activated by the previous option, if some lines are selected. Activating this option clears the selection.

Within the Edit Breaks command these options work in the same way, as described in the Adding Breaks, when Creating Projections and Drawing Views section.

If you made some changes, while working with the command, then  activating this option invokes a question: "Save changes?". Click Yes to exit the command with saving changes, or click No to exit without saving.

 

When using the break boundary manipulators within the Edit Breaks command, the additional option is available in the automenu:

If you click anywhere in the drawing, upon activating this option, then current break boundary will be snapped to the 2D node nearest to the cursor location. The associative link is created between the node and the break boundary (same as when you select a node without using this option), i.e. upon future changes in a position of a point, a position of a breaks boundary will be updated accordingly.