Presentation View Level of Detail

[nmaron]

I've created a view in my presentation file and tweaked all my components to where I want them. How do I change the level of detail associated with a particular explosion already created? I know when you create the view you can select which representation and level of detail to use, but how do you change these after the exploded view is created?

[harco]

ipn files are very limited.
I don't think you can set LOD after.
As you state even view reps can only be set when you import.
All you can do really, is switch visibility.
You can't even create a new exposion as a copy of one you just made.

[Anonymous]

You CAN create a new explosion as a copy of one you just made. Here's how:
1. Right click the explosion node in the browser. Select Copy.
2. Right click the Assembly node (top node in browser), click Paste.
Whatever the state of the copied explosion at "copy" action is what the new
explosion will result in.
Cheers,
--
Bill Bogan | SME, Inventor Technical Publications | Manufacturing Industries
Group | Autodesk, Inc.

[harco]

Thanks Bill
I didn't know you could do that, I don't do a lot of ipn's so hadn't investigated every avenue and wrongly assumed it would have a similar operation to view reps. and not seeing it on the RMB I jumped in with both feet ending up with them in my mouth.
I learn something new everyday.
Thanks again.

[Anonymous]

🙂 I'd say that's a pretty common occurrence for many of us who have the
urge to help, but not the time to get to know every nook and cranny of the
software. It isn't obvious unless you think about Inventor's inclination
toward use of context menus.
--
Bill Bogan | SME, Inventor Technical Publications | Manufacturing Industries
Group | Autodesk, Inc.

[Maxim-CADman77]

nmaron,

Have you found any solution for you initial request?

[-niels-]

This is not currently possible, i posted an idea in the ideastation that has been accepted.
So fingers crossed it will make it to IV2015.
If you want to add another vote:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-IdeaStation/Bring-the-presentation-environment-up-to-speed/id...

[AndyWallace]

As of Inventor 2016 this has not been fixed. For whatever reason, placing views is defaulted to not associative. If you don't immediately turn that on, and select the LOD you want in the Options panel, it never allows you to select another LOD afterwards. So you're stuck blowing away work and starting over. EVERY path forward should have a return path back that's possible to take!

See these screenshots. The first one is as you create a presentation view. You can see it allows you to set associativity and LOD. The second is the post view creation representation dialog. In fact, the LODs are greyed out as if they don't exist.

The frustration here is that we must use presentations to create explodes, and if we change view reps/LODs as drawings are developed, there's no way to re-sync models! Horrible.

Andy

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Andy,

Presentation does have a link to Design View representation, not LOD representation. As I said in other related threads, LOD was designed to be a memory management tool back in 32-bit Windows days with limited RAM support. With LOD, Inventor users can build larger assemblies than the 3GB RAM allows. However, it has been leveraged as a configuration tool.

For configuration purpose, you would be better off creating multiple assemblies or use Design View representation to control component visibility. We are aware of the requirement. I believe there is an idea on Ideas forum. Please kudo it.

Many thanks!

[mark5DGVX]

how can i a make a section vieuw in a presentation then?

[-niels-]

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@mark5DGVX wrote:

how can i a make a section vieuw in a presentation then?

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Same as you would a normal view....

Assuming you're placing your presentation in an isometric view, this means you'll have to place a side view somewhere (off the sheet) and make your section in that.

Then you create an isometric view from that section.

---edit as i'm still waking up---

Assuming you mean in the presentation itself... you'll have to do that through the assembly by actually cutting away the material. (assembly feature)

I'm guessing IV2022's model states might give some more options in doing that in a "neat" way, but i'm not on that version yet so i can't try...

[jeffthorsen777]

Thanks a lot!