D3 Tech Tip | Submitted by D3 TECHNOLOGIES.

We occasionally get support requests from customers who are noticing that their standard content center parts aren’t being cut in section views created in drawings. This tech tip will show you how to configure your settings to force content center parts to participate in section views universally. Also, we’ll look at a way to toggle their section participation individually

To force all standard content center parts to participate in section views, navigate on your ribbon to the ‘Tools’ tab then click on ‘Application Options’. From there, go to the ‘Drawing’ tab and make sure that the ‘Section Standard Parts’ option is set to ‘Always.’ The two other options are: ‘Never’ and ‘Obey Browser’. ‘Never’ does exactly what it implies, and ‘Obey Browser’ forces you to control section participation on a part-by-part basis, which we’ll look at in a moment. If you prefer to control section participation individually, you can leave that setting on ‘Obey Browser’ and control participation by right-clicking on a component in the browser underneath the section view feature, selecting ‘Section Participation’ then selecting ‘Section’, ‘Slice’ or ‘None’. In addition to Content Center parts, this workflow can also be used to toggle the participation of parts you created yourself.

This article was written by Justen Pendergraft, Implementation Consultant at D3 TECHNOLOGIES.

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