Reorient drawing view

[Anonymous]

How can you reorient a drawing view? For example - I place an isometric view using "current" (or any other view for that matter) then find later on that I need to change the orientation of a drawing view for a better view. But I cannot change the view to anything else. I have tried making it a positional rep, but once I place a view it appears locked. This is especially frustrating when making an exploded view and the view angle needs tweaked slightly for a better view. In SolidWorks I could change a placed view to any view of that part or asm that I desired. I must be missing some fundamental functionality of Inventor. What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

This is As Designed. SW might be different. In Inventor, placing an
isometric view allows the moving of that view to any portion of the drawing
without changing the orientation. You have the option to change the
orientation by moving it to a different portion of the drawing area before
placing it. It's just a different in workflow.

Simply delete your existing view, pick on the parent view again, and drag it
around the screen until you get the orientation that you desire.
Alternatively, select base view, pick on Change View Orientation and orient
the view in any position you desire

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wrote in message news:6014760@discussion.autodesk.com...
How can you reorient a drawing view? For example - I place an isometric
view using "current" (or any other view for that matter) then find later on
that I need to change the orientation of a drawing view for a better view.
But I cannot change the view to anything else. I have tried making it a
positional rep, but once I place a view it appears locked. This is
especially frustrating when making an exploded view and the view angle needs
tweaked slightly for a better view. In SolidWorks I could change a placed
view to any view of that part or asm that I desired. I must be missing some
fundamental functionality of Inventor. What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

I know I can change the orientation before a view is placed. But, I gather that that a view cannot be changed after it is placed. And if I want a view with the part or asm at a slightly different angle, I have to "start over" from scratch. This is inconvient if I have an exploded assembly ipn with 100 parts and I need the ipn tweaked a few degrees to better show parts. So, if I understand the limitations of inventor, I have to delete the current view, reorient the ipn, place the new view of the ipn, and redo the 100 ballons?
Thanks,
Steve
IV11 sp4

[Anonymous]

I have wondered about this myself.
Once the base view is created, you can go back and edit things such as 'remove hidden lines' or 'add tangent lines' or 'scale',,,but you cannot reorient the view????

[Anonymous]

If it's a drawing view of an assembly, you can re-orient the assembly with
respect to the assembly origin work geometry (and I THINK this would trickle
down to your presentation file, but I haven't tried it). Specifically,
unground your base component, and reconstrain as necessary to the origin
planes.

Otherwise, yes, you have to delete and recreate the view.

-Andrew Faix
Product Design Lead
Inventor Core Applications


wrote in message news:6014810@discussion.autodesk.com...
I know I can change the orientation before a view is placed. But, I gather
that that a view cannot be changed after it is placed. And if I want a view
with the part or asm at a slightly different angle, I have to "start over"
from scratch. This is inconvient if I have an exploded assembly ipn with 100
parts and I need the ipn tweaked a few degrees to better show parts. So, if
I understand the limitations of inventor, I have to delete the current view,
reorient the ipn, place the new view of the ipn, and redo the 100 ballons?
Thanks,
Steve
IV11 sp4

[Anonymous]

However that is bad practice (Re-orient assembly) as it skews ALL views,
not just the isomentric. Personally, I would not annotate ( place balloons)
until I had the desired view. Reorientation of the ISO view prior to
placement is not that hard, and can be done from the IDW prior to placement.

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Autodesk Manufacturing Implementation Certified Expert.
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"Andrew Faix (Autodesk)" wrote in message
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If it's a drawing view of an assembly, you can re-orient the assembly with
respect to the assembly origin work geometry (and I THINK this would trickle
down to your presentation file, but I haven't tried it). Specifically,
unground your base component, and reconstrain as necessary to the origin
planes.

Otherwise, yes, you have to delete and recreate the view.

-Andrew Faix
Product Design Lead
Inventor Core Applications


wrote in message news:6014810@discussion.autodesk.com...
I know I can change the orientation before a view is placed. But, I gather
that that a view cannot be changed after it is placed. And if I want a view
with the part or asm at a slightly different angle, I have to "start over"
from scratch. This is inconvient if I have an exploded assembly ipn with 100
parts and I need the ipn tweaked a few degrees to better show parts. So, if
I understand the limitations of inventor, I have to delete the current view,
reorient the ipn, place the new view of the ipn, and redo the 100 ballons?
Thanks,
Steve
IV11 sp4

[Anonymous]

It would usually cause a disaster if I ungrounded or changed the constraints of the asm base component. Many times I constrain it to origin planes and constrain other parts to either the origin planes or base part planes. To move the original base part just doesn't sound like a prudent approach. I am getting relatively used to most Inventor differences, but tweaking a placed view, exploded view creation and modification, assembly tree folders, the way part and asm configurations are handled, and part display options are a few things I really miss in SW.
Thanks,
Steve
IV 11 sp4

[JDMather]

>It would usually cause a disaster if I ungrounded or changed

That was not a well thought out suggestion.

[Anonymous]

Just pointing out the options, I never said it was ideal.


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>It would usually cause a disaster if I ungrounded or changed

That was not a well thought out suggestion.

[Anonymous]

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"Andrew Faix (Autodesk)" wrote in message
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Just pointing out the options, I never said it was ideal.


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-Andrew Faix
Product Design Lead
Inventor Core Applications
wrote in message news:6014912@discussion.autodesk.com...
>It would usually cause a disaster if I ungrounded or changed

That was not a well thought out suggestion.

[Anonymous]

nm Message was edited by: zma1013

[Anonymous]

It gets even better. If the part you have detailed in a drawing was not
created in line with any of the origin plan and than the orientation of that
part changes then the drawing has to be re-done completely. Wonderful, isn't
it?
Igor.

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wrote in message news:6014810@discussion.autodesk.com...
I know I can change the orientation before a view is placed. But, I gather
that that a view cannot be changed after it is placed. And if I want a view
with the part or asm at a slightly different angle, I have to "start over"
from scratch. This is inconvient if I have an exploded assembly ipn with 100
parts and I need the ipn tweaked a few degrees to better show parts. So, if
I understand the limitations of inventor, I have to delete the current view,
reorient the ipn, place the new view of the ipn, and redo the 100 ballons?
Thanks,
Steve
IV11 sp4

[Anonymous]

This is a serious shortcoming in Inventor and should be fixed.

Things change. Say I get my design and drawing all finished and everything looks great. 6 months down the road, a component gets added, needs to be shown but is obscured by another part. A slight re-orientation would quickly fix everything. Recreating the view for such an occurrence is a needless waste of time.

I realize the suggested work-around was well-intentioned, but it shouldn't be necessary.

[Anonymous]

View orientation can be saved as a view representation and if you double click the view rep in the assembly, the model rotates to the saved orientation. It would be nice if you could access the view orientation in the drawing view properties dialog box. That way you could edit the view orientation in the view rep and have it update in the drawing.

[dan_inv09]

Inventor is chewing away loading a couple of drawings I can't afford to experiment on so I'm not going to actually try this yet.

How about making your own iso view? You will probably need at least one hidden view, but you should be able to tweak it all you want. I'm not sure how flexible auxiliary views would be, but you could try section views (that don't cut through anything (or do if you want)). You could put exact angles in your section line sketch and adjust them degree by degree if you like.

[dcmorgan]

YOU DO HAVE THE OPTION TO ROTATE THE VIEW ONCE IT IS PLACED. RIGHT CLICK ON THE VIEW, AND SELECT ROTATE. YOU HAVE SEVERAL OPTIONS IN THERE THAT YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM

YOU CAN ONLY ROTATE THE MAIN PARENT VIEW HOWEVER. IF YOU BROKE THE LINK TO ALL THE VIEWS, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO EDIT THOSE AS WELL

HOPE THIS HELPS

[zma1013]

That only rotates that view in the 2D plane in which you are looking dcmorgan. He wants to actually change the 3D angle at which the parts are viewed.