View scale in Titleblock

[Digitek-USA]

OK - I am trying to get the scale of the base view in my titleblock. I have searched help and this forum and have come to the conclusion that as of Inventor 2012, this still can not be accomplished without add-ons?

I have also read the posts about if the view scale should or shouldn't be added to the titleblock. And I don't want to open that can of worms! The bottom line is, my customer requires it, so its a requirement for me.

Someone please tell me I have missed something and the base view scale can be added to the titleblock.

[alessandro.gasso · Accepted solution]

I hope you can find useful the blog post below.

http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/2011/06/base-view-scale-in-title-block.html

Kind regards,

Alessandro

[Digitek-USA]

Thank you, this is the cleanest workaround I have seen yet.

I still can't believe Autodesk would ignore all the requests from its faithful users for this to be added to the native package, especially since it would be so easy.... Makes you think, what are they thinking!

[Digitek-USA]

Also what a great website

http://beinginventive.typepad.com/

I have bookmarked it!

[alessandro.gasso]

It’s very kind of you.

Glad I could help.

Regards,

Ale

[cmcconnell]

Thanks for this very useful tool.

Is there a way to copy the rule from my template to existing idws? I am not that familiar with iLogic or VB...

[alessandro.gasso]

Please, try the following.

• Unzip the ivb and txt file from the file attached to any folder on your machine. (I.e : C:\Shared\myivbprojects).
• In Inventor menu Tools > Options (click on the arrow near Options) > iLogic configuration and add the name of your folder to the external rule directory paths.

• Menu Tools > Options > VBA Editor > menu File >  Load project ... > select the ivb file extracted.
• Menu File > Close and return to Inventor.
• Menu Tools > Options > Macros > Run the macro Start_stop.initialize_iLogic_rule().

• After that, open all the idws where you want to add the rule.

An iLogic rule called "Myrule" will be automatically created.

If you no longer need the automatic rule creation process you can turn it off running the macro called Start_stop.stop_initialize_iLogic_rule().

I hope it can be useful.

Please, let me know if the procedure is not clear.

Kind regards,

Alessandro

[cmcconnell]

Thanks - we will give it a try...

[bobvdd]

Cory

If you are interested to use the same technique to add multiple iLogic rules to existing Inventor rules, there is a more elaborate description of the process on our blog.

Cheers

Bob 

[mhaeuselmann]

Why do I have to download a tool for this and why is it not implemented on Inventor 2013? If you have the tool it would be so easy! My boss doesn't want to install a separate tool that might be not supported in other versions.

The same about the print-date, it would be easy to implement this as a feature. Please Autodesk, add those variables for the Version 2014.

[ulfhille]

I have waited for this option since Inventor 5.3.

That's the version I started with.

I can't understand why this is so difficult for Autodesk.