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(Contributed by Byron Raymond)

If you want to create a new projection view of a part showing a cross section, here's the steps: You must already have a general view of the object, oriented such that the plane the cross section is defined in appears on edge (perpendicular to the screen).

From the DRAWING menu, select Views. Take the following defaults: Projection, Full View, No Scale. Change one pick from No Xsec to Section. Select Done. You now have two choices in the XSEC TYPE menu. Take the default Full pick. Select the type of cross section. The two most common choices are:

Total Xsec will display the entire view of the part, and cross-hatch only the cross section

Area Xsec will only display and cross-hatch the material intersected by the cross sectioning plane.

Select Done. With the mouse, pick where you want the the center point of the new view to be. If you created the cross-section and gave it a name in Part mode, select the name (This is the recommended method). Otherwise, you will need to Create a datum plane "on the fly" to make a cross section in Drawing mode.

Once the cross section is defined, Pro/E will ask for a view where the section is perpendicular. Select such a view. Pro/E will add notation to show the direction the cross section is being viewed at. If you do not want this notation, press the middle mouse button rather than selection the perpendicular section.