How to “Convert” a Section View into a Projected View

Warren Isaacs posted a very interesting question on the SolidWorks Forums:

I have a section view on a drawing whose part has been modified such that the section is now redundant.  Since the section view was projected from a parent view, can I convert from section to projection? I’ve trawled through the Help and various menus, but to no avail.  I tried deleting the section line from the sketch, but SW didn’t like the empty sketch it left behind, so reinstated the original line. If such a change isn’t possible, then is it possible to move all my carefully laid out dimensions and notes, en masse, from the section view to a new projection view without having to lay them all out again?  Every time I switch dimensions between views (using <Shift>-drag), they seem to drop wherever they please.

The solution is actually quite simple.

Let’s say you have a Section View like in Fig. 1:

Fig. 1

To “convert” this Section View into a “Projected” View, just move the section line in the parent view away from the model (so it does not cut the model at all). Now you get a quasi-projected view (see Fig. 2).

Fig. 2