What I found out was what I tried initially but it didn't work, so I called the hotline. I haven't run with this much but theoretically it should work and I have tested it. Any section that you want in all instances must be created in the Generic and just like Gary said, a section is just like a reegular feature, if you supress any parent of that section in an instance then the sction will supress with it. So, from a drawing perspective PTC (who usually respects drawing practices) requires your sections to be Generic and not from model geometry (if you want to be safe). Of course if you don't care if you have section letters in your drawings not being sequential and haveing downstream departments reading drawings and saying, "her's section B and here's F, where's C,D and E????, we must be missing a sheet!?" So, making sections actual features may not have been such a great call, however, I have noticed some increase functonality as it relates to sections, but, drawings be dambed! I guess the coders and decision makers think everything gets made with desktop pronters or something and the drawing is dead? but I won't rant. I hope this helps...
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