Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

BMiller, You are correct.

I tried your exact descriptions of the issue in both 2010 and 2011. Personally, I'd never be detailing two subassemblies in one IDW. My recommendations have always been 1 part = 1 drawing, 1 subassembly one = drawing, 1 top level assembly = 1 drawing. It simplifies everything.

I suppose if you want to detail the entire kitchen in one IDW, then you need to make workarounds to get what you want.

[#2]

Thanks for all the help BMiller and Dennis.  Looks like you cannot control visibility or suppression of welds with a design rep or LOD in both INV 2010 & 2011.  I'm going to go with BMiller's suggestion to demote the necessary parts into a sub-assy.

I would be nice to control the visibility of these welds with design reps and.or LOD.  The entire weldment that I show in my assemby is one complete unit (one weldment).  No reason to create a sub-assembly to be able to isolate parts and welds just to be able to create a drawing view.  Seems silly to have to create a seperate file just to show a drawing view.

This would definitely be a wish list item for me!

Thanks again for all your help!

John Weiss

CAD Administrator

Follett  Corporation

[#3]

I am using Inventor 2013 and there is still this silly thing, that I should create subassemblies to switch visibility for individual welds.

I really hope that it would be an upgrade in Inventor 14

Austris Bolmanis

Quality Engineer

East Metal

[#4]

Yep still cannot control weld visibility via a view repsentation in 2013.  That is so frustrating.