Center a drawing

[tonycg1995]

Hello,

I have been playing around with the drawing features and I haven't found a way to center a drawing in the drawing section of inventor professional. I would like to make drawings with one inch spacing between parts and I can't figure out how to do that. I have tried drawing a sketch over the drawing with the correct spacing but I was unable to move the other views to this exact location except by eyeballing it.

Can inventor create drawings that have all the views centered together or is that something I would need to bring over into autocad to do?

[Cadmanto · Accepted solution]

Tony,

Welcome to the forum.

Sounds like the best way I can think to handle this would be to use predefined views.

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[tonycg1995]

Thank you but I'm not sure if I understand your solution. Aren't predefined views just the front, top, and side views that I have to place manually? Is there a way that I can have these views placed with equal spacing and in the center of a page or is that something I have to eyeball?

I attached a picture of my drawing test and I want to be able to center the views with a one inch spacing between them.

Sorry if I misunderstood your solution,

Thanks!

[mslosar]

I believe he's saying that if you predefine the view, you can take the time - once - to lay them out to exacting standards and then in the future, everytime you refer to the predefined view - you will get the spacing your after quickly.

I was going to say, the only way to really do it would be to place a base view, then create a sketch on top of it. In that sketch, project lines 1" off the directions you need for your spacing. Then you can place your following views on those edges for even spacing. Then when complete, either delete the sketch or toggle it's visibility.

You can set up predefined views once that way and then just reference it in the future instead of redoing the setup every time.

[tonycg1995]

Thanks guys, I think I can manage with that

[mcgyvr]

or just don't be so a.nal

[Cadmanto]

Well said!!!  Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking.  Take the time initially and down the road that is where the time savings will occur.

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[blair]

Reminds me of the old manual drafting days of having to calculate how much space the views were going to take to know where on the H & V to start and then position the views so all the gaps between the views was equal (excluding Dims).

Now I just eye-ball it and drag the views around. I will pan the IDW and use the edges of the monitor as guidelines for H & V alignment.