Communicating Your Design - Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required - page 432

10. In the dialog, pick the Line Weight value in the Visible (ANSI) layer
row, and set the value to .001 .
11. Click Done to close the dialog, and click Yes to approve saving the
changes made to the layers.
12. After the dialog closes, you may not see the change immediately. If
this is true, zoom or pan slightly in the Design window to update
your view. It should closely resemble Figure 9.2.
FIGURE 9.2 The view is updated using the thinner lines.
13. Save the new drawing to the Drawings folder as Fan.dwg .
Now you have the foundation needed for the Break Out tool to work.
The Break-Out View
The break-out view has a highly descriptive name: it allows you to “break out”
part of a drawing. It's particularly useful with assemblies but can also be used in
a single-part model to expose internal details.
The break-out view relies on a sketch for its defi nition. You can use any of the
sketch tools as long as you create a closed loop for the sketch. To create visually
appealing break-outs, many people use a spline to defi ne the boundary.
The workfl ow is pretty simple. You create a sketch and then use that sketch
to modify an existing view. However, the view that is modifi ed can be either