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On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 6:17:16 AM UTC-6, Elio wrote:
> El sábado, 30 de mayo de 2009 a las 1:41:02 UTC+2, manager escribió: 
> > IYM wrote: 
> > > "manager" <cons...@engtran.com> wrote in message 
> > > news:gvmqfj$10l$1...@news.albasani.net... 
> > >> IYM wrote: 
> > >>> It might be just a brain fart, but has anyone ever had an issue with not 
> > >>> being able to crop?? SWx 2009, SP2.1 I have a simple print of a single 
> > >>> component (not assy), made an closed spline profile sketch and now crop 
> > >>> is not available and is grayed out. Tried a circle thinking something 
> > >>> was wrong with my spline....nada. Made sure the view focus was 
> > >>> locked...nada. Recreated my spline and could make a detail out of it and 
> > >>> any other closed shape, but crop is still not available...Any ideas? 
> > >>> IYM 
> > >> What are you cropping? Full view, section view, detail view? 
> > >> 
> > >> TOP 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Just cropping a regular ol' standard front view of a round part. Absolutely 
> > > nothing unusual about it. Has a section line through the center of it, but 
> > > it doesn't even have dimensions on it - those are all in the section view. 
> > > On a whim, I decided to start to make a new drawing of the part to see if 
> > > the problem duplicates, so I placed the exact same view on a new sheet (same 
> > > template as the old dwg), created the same section view, and then tried to 
> > > crop it on that sheet and the crop works - no problems, so it's got to be 
> > > something the guy did to the drawing format or he's got something "unusual" 
> > > in that view I just can't see that's screwing it up. By "unusual", I mean 
> > > poor drawing techniques. I described how this guy was making center lines, 
> > > but another example of his would be - I'd find unconstrained sections lines 
> > > that were supposed to be vertical, but were actually 1/4 degree off that (or 
> > > some that were vertical, but .00005" off the actual center of the part) and 
> > > I would have to waste time trying to find out why the section view was 
> > > screwed up, or why I couldn't add a radius dimension to it because it wasn't 
> > > a "true" radius...erg...so I know what to check for on his prints, but this 
> > > is a new one.... 
> > > 
> > > Anyway I ended up redrawing it, but I saved the old print as I eventually 
> > > want to know what's going on should I run across this again... 
> > > 
> > > Thanks... 
> > > 
> > > IYM 
> > > 
> > > 
> > If that's the case you might want to look at the document properties for 
> > some different setting. From time to time SW gets a corrupt file. 
> > Sometimes you can fix a corrupt file by deleting everything and then 
> > doing an undo. Backup first if you try this. 
> > TOP
> Have tou seen if youa already have done a crop in your view ? 
> In this case, RC and then "edit the crop" or just "remove the crop"

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