Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

We use multiple sheets only in case when 1 sheet is has not the sufficiënt space for showing al details of an assembly-drawing.

I'm wondering why the "Update all sheets" icon is allways visible when using more then one sheet in a drawing.

René

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Once you have more than 1 sheet in the drawing the command becomes active and will remain active (as long as you don't turn on "Defer updates" in the document settings) .

I don't think it has the ability to tell you wether an update is actually necessary or not. I think you are expecting too much of the command :-)

Although I perfectly understand your confusion. I would also like the Save button to get disabled when no save is necessary in a document that I have open.  But even Microsoft Office does not offer such a nice touch...

Bob

[#3]

So, usually, one can tell from the icons that there is an update available but not when you have two sheets. And that is expecting too much of the command? How

[#4]

It falls into a category of "the lights are on but nobody's home" for sure. Now I know that the Update icon has no meaning once there are two or more drawing sheets in a file. And for all those years I was thinking that the Inventor is telling me that the model has been updated...

Thanks, Bob.

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bobvdd wrote:

I don't think it has the ability to tell you wether an update is actually necessary or not. I think you are expecting too much of the command :-) 

Bob

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[#5]

The command is only meant to give you the chance to force an update of the one or more views that you have selected. In 99% of the cases this is not necessary and Inventor updates existing views automatically when there is a change. It is just in those 1% of the cases where Inventor does not do it for you , to get the views right.

Bob