Saving Model Views

[Cadmanto]

When you are spining your model around and have a specific view

that you want to show in the drawing, how do you save that specific view

so you can import it into the drawing?

[mcgyvr · Accepted solution]

Its done in the idw file..not in the model. Press the base view button in the idw file then press the (change view orientation) button right below the list of orientations (looks like a 3d box with a magnifying glass over it) to the left of the projection symbol. That will open the model and allow you to rotate/orient it how you want then press the finish custom view button and your view should now match what you wanted.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi Cadmanto,

In addition to creating a custom view via the IDW view tools, you can create Design View Representations in your model. Then you can specify those views when creating your drawing view.

Jonathan Landeros covers this in a couple of recent blog articles:

http://inventor-tales.blogspot.com/2011/12/view-representations-in-autodesk.html

http://inventor-tales.blogspot.com/2012/01/using-view-representations-on-autodesk.html

He's talking about this in regards to assemblies, but you can do much the same thing with parts (in later versions of Inventor).

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

[Cadmanto]

Thank you.

Sorry it took so long to get back to this thread.

I discovered that this not only works with new views but you can also go back and select this button

while editing a view 

I haven't tried it yet, but wondering if you do this with a parent view will aoo the projected views update as well?

[JimSteinmeyer]

Yes, reorienting a parent view will change the following views as well.

Hey, I can answer a question once in a while!

[Cadmanto]

Very Nice Jim!!!