I don't know if I did anything, but the drawing I'm doing completely went sideways, the other sheets are normal, but this one turned. Any help turning it back could be appreciated.
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Rotate your monitor clockwise 90° while working on that sheet.
Can you attach the file here?
If you right click on that sheet and select Edit Sheet - what does it show for the Orientation? (Portrait or Landscape)?
Did you reboot the computer and the behavior persists?
Rotating the monitor will change the way the mouse behaves (push mouse away, it would go to the right, etc.) so I'll just work with how it is for now.
The Orientation is still set to Landscape. I tried switching to Portrait, then back to Landscape and nothing.
Nothing changes with a reboot.
Have you installed SP 1.1?
Select the sheet in questions, RMB click on the sheet in the Drawing Browser box, select Edit Sheet and change the orientation from Portrait to Landscape.
It's already in Landscape format, everything is rotated 90 deg, not just the sheet. When you export as a PDF it still comes out as a regular landscape format.
I vaguely recall many years ago that there was a way in which you could get a drawing (.idw) to rotate in 3D space, which was useful mainly for entertainment... (some of us don't get out much!). I don't recall how that was accomplished, nor do I know whether Inventor still has that ability. But your situation looks like it accidentally got rotated and saved that way. Post the file and see if anyone can figure it out.
After you said that, I figured it out immediately, I have a 3DConnexion Mouse and just hit the rotate button!
Mine went edge on showing the model behind the sheet!
As yours it was my 3D Mouse button getting accidentally pushed by the edge of my keyboard encroaching on its space!
I don't get out much either so I thought I would include a screenshot for entertainment value....
Hi! The behavior does not look right to me. What Inventor release are you on? Can you reproduce the behavior easily?
Many thanks!
It's correct, Inventor places different parts/lines of the item at different "layers/depths" of the drawing. If you use the different view commands in the 3D Connexion 3D mouse, you can rotate the drawing view.
This is kinda cool. I wonder if this was considered 'faulty functionality' and probably fixed to not allow it...I am not able to reproduce this (on 2019; I do have a 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator). It would actually be cool if we could rotate the entire paper/camera, e.g. 90deg to view many dimensions with rotated text.
A user in my team got freaked out with this too:
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I remember seeing this post 10 years ago, trying it, and being amazed that you could do this! As one person commented above, intentionally doing it is only useful for a bored designer looking to waste a little time. 🙂
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The fix for this I have found is to go under the "View" tab and select "Steering Wheel", then hit the "Rewind" button, and it will let you toggle through the previous views.
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