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[#1]

I have an assy in which I have created work planes which are huge and annoying, so I make them invisible but when I save the assy I get a message saying the Design Current Design view representation.... blah blah..... or Unlock the Current one.

How do I unlock the Master View Rep.

[#2]

From a previous reply:

Reply From: Peter Maxfield \(Autodesk\)
Date: Jun/27/07 - 08:51 (GMT)

Re: REPRESENTATIONS - VIEW - MASTER
Hello,

This is as-designed. The Master is meant to represent the entire assembly, fully visible
and fully enabled.

We recommend working with a user-created DV, such as "Default" as shipped with the
templates, for allowing customization.

Regards,
Pete
Product Design Lead

[#3]

Thanks for that.

[#4]

Doe it mean that the master view rep is automatically always locked?

[#5]

That is correct. hence the lock symbol in front of Master

Bob

[#6]

I'm super ultra frustrated with this.  I have models with a many planes and sketches in it.  They're all fine, it just crowds the screen when they're all on.  Here's where I pull my hair out:

I get the part model looking just how I want.  I mean, instead of using the master view, I make my own called default.  Boy it would be super fantastic if I could just set an option to use the default view when the parts are inserted into an assembly instead of Inventor requiring me to use the master view.  Ok, but for now, I have to insert the part, right click on representation, and choose default view.  So, it’s just a minor inconvenience.  No hair pulled out yet.  Here’s what burns me up.  When I uncheck the visibility box, the part is no longer visible.  So far, so good.  When I check the box to make it visible again, what do you know, it’s switched over to super horrible looking master view.  I never asked Inventor to switch views, but it went ahead and did it anyway.  So, now I have to right click, representation, default view etc.  Still not pulling my hair out, but thinking about it.  Ok ok ok, I have it figured out.  I’ll make the representation associative right?  Then when I turn my model back to visible, it should update the view to wherever I left the default view in my model right?  Fantasic.  But, it doesn’t work.  When I uncheck the visibility box, I get an error message requiring me to remove the associativity.  First of all, why do I get any kind of error message just for unchecking a visibility box, com’on guys…  Second, why can’t the part be unvisible and become visible again with the same representation?  That’s when I pull out hair by the fist full.  Why MUST I have to go through the master view?  It might not be that bad if I could CHANGE THE MASTER VIEW, but I can’t.  Inventor is forcing me to use the master view and won’t let me change it.  Very, very frustrating.

[#7]

Hi jaxonusa,

As a rule of thumb it is best to always right-click on work features and sketches in the part file and turn off the visibility there. This prevents the issues you're having with the visibility of these things turning on and off at the assembly levels.

You can then control the visibility of the work features and sketches in the parts at the assembly level as needed.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[#8]

Well, that's what I'm doing.  I can get the view in the part file to look the way I want it, but not in the part file master view.  The master view is the one what gets used when the part inserted or checked back into visibility, and that's the one that can't be changed.

[#9]

The only thing that I can think of to toggle the visibility of parts while keeping workfteaures invisible at the end of the ride is to LOCK the viewrep:

1) Lock the active viewrep (ie. View1)  in your assembly

2) Turn off the visibility of one or more parts

3) Do whatever you need to do ....

4) Activate the Master view rep of your assembly

5) Activate View1

6) Unlock View1

This will bring you back to the initial situation with the parts visible without seeing unwanted workfeatures and withour the need to activate viewreps in any of the parts.

Bob

[#10]

I have this issue too, also with Enable/Disable. Locking a view representation removes the associative representation links, so it is not without side effects.

Also when adding a new component to the assembly I have to remember to link all the representations as desired. I'm thinking of automating the associations as my views usually follow a pattern (Assembly -> Component): Default -> Default, Design -> Reference, Reference -> Default.

I wish the visibility of origin features was remembered by the view representations. Also that view representations were applied to iPart members based on the iPart factory, or there was some way of applying visibility/enabled to the derived features.