Hide Part Sketch Construction Lines

[gnick]

Is there any way to hide construction lines in Part & Assembly sketches in the same way you can in a Drawing sketch?

I know you can change the line colour to the background colour but this makes the lines invisible in sketch as well which doesn't really help!

Not being able to hide the construction is making some layouts pretty pointless since relevant detail is obscured by the construction lines. Grounding the geommetry and deleting the construcion lines isn't an option since the sketches are part of the design development and not fixed.

[mcgyvr]

Can't you just turn off visibility of that sketch?

[gnick]

I am using sketches to provide a simplified view of a lot of equipment. If I make them invisible they aren't much use!

I would prefer to have construction lines that are only visible in the sketch, which is after all what you would use construction lines for...

[Dennis_Jeffrey]

Without seeing the file, it sounds like you may be making the sketches overly complicated. Can you post an example ipt and the IV version used?

[CadUser46]

You could do two things.

1.  Put the construction lines on one sketch then project the geometry onto a second sketch with visual lines.  Turn off visibility of construction sketch.

2.  Im assuming you are using sketch constraints were possible instead of construction lines?  Hence the amount of construction lines should be at a minimum.  Not at me desk right now so cant sugest anything else.

[gnick]

The sketches aren't over-complicated. Our installation of IV gets prone to crashing with complex sketches.

The problem isn't with the size or complexity of the sketches, it is with the way that IV displays construction lines. Every sketch that has construction lines, even the projection of the datum planes has these lines visible when the sketch is visible. I can switch off the display of dimensions, so why not construction lines?

When creating sketches that are consumed by the features that they are used to generate, this isn't an issue but when using sketches for conceptual design it results in a very cluttered view.

I am using IV2011, 64-Bit Edition under Windows XP64

[gnick]

1. The problem with having the construction lines on a second sketch is that it effecively duplicates sketches which makes the model tree harder work. It is at least an practical work-round to the problem though.

2. Go teach grandmother to suck eggs - not that I have ever heard of anyone sucking eggs, certainly not either of my grandmothers! Seriously I am trying as many options as possible to reduce construction lines apart from above which I will do now...

[stephengibson76]

If you dont use centrelines, change the construction geometry to centreline geometry then in the styles editor, in layers, click the exclude from plot on the centreline layer.

It would be nice if within styles you could differentiate between sketch geometry and construction sketch geometry with the object defaults

[CadUser46]

Ha ha, sorry had to ask.

Its not ideal but here is a workaround.  In the sketch edit change the propertyof the construction line to white then change the background to white also.

In the attached picture i was hovering over the construction line in the first pic.

[gnick]

I know how to do it, I don't like doing it because

(a) it is a poor solution since you then can't see the lines in sketch unless you hover over them

(b) it doesn't really help if you are using a graduated background.

Having to hide the lines by making them the same colour as the background is something that strikes me as a workaround in DOGS not a modern CAD system.

The really irritating thing is that in Drawing sketches you can do this

[CadUser46]

Yea its not even close to elegant.  Id also like to be able to hide projected geometry in part/assembly sketches as we quite often detail engraved lines in the model and pull them through to the drawing.

I also use the gradient background, white is too much to look at all day but if it was just to get the presentation shot.

[AnotherFully]

Any luck with switching those construction off?

[snowflake30]

Gnick,

I feel for you. I'm experiencing the exact same difficulties. Having switched from ProE and Solidworks I'm sorely missing this feature. The workarounds on this thread are pretty messy and/or cumbersome if you've found a solution I'd be eager to hear. If i find one I'll shall post.

Newbie

[swhite]

Yes, they need a simple dialog box to open when showing a sketch to ask if you want construction lines to show or not. One of these coding wizards on here could probably figure out how to do it. I feel your pain as we usually do general arangement drawings where everything is sketched out for placement, and then have to hide all the construction lines in the idw. Would be great if you cld just turn the construction line layer off in the drawing environment.

Place the idea here for the next release.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-IdeaStation/idb-p/v1232

[swhite]

Why not actually emboss the lines on the part?

[snowflake30]

I not sure I'd benefit from embossing the lines. I dont want them to change the model surface or indeed material properties. Will just cause further work for defeaturing when I come to structurally analyse. I'd jyust have expecetd the lines to be either auotmatically hidden once a sketch has been exited or at least be able to toggle them on or off. I'll log the request with autodesk.

[albert.a.ybarra]

Constrain all construction lines to equal.  Then make them .1" or something small so they won't be visible.   

[falcao_queiroz]

The year is 2023 and Autodesk still couldn't figure out how to implement the hide constuction line feature. No wonder  Inventor is treated as a low-end  limited CAD software.

[JDMather]

---

@falcao_queiroz wrote:

The year is 2023….

---

@falcao_queiroz 

There is an easy way to do this.

Attach your *.ipt file here for demonstration if you can’t figure it out.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Falcao,

Do you just want to hide construction lines within a sketch or you want to hide the entire sketch? For the former, indeed there isn't a way to hide lines in construction linetype within a sketch. For the latter, you may hide the entire sketch accordingly.

Please elaborate what exactly you want to do.

Many thanks!