May i know is there any solution for this in latest version of Inventor, version 2013? Do share with me if there is any. Thanks.
There is nothing different in 2013. Solids, Surfaces, View Representations and Origin folders are still at the top of the browser, and the features are still in the browser in modeling sequence. You can rearrange features to the extent that it makes logical sense, but you can never move a feature above something that it depends on.
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I doubt this will ever be an option due to the fact that rearranging features in a part actually changes the way the part solves and can have an effect on the geometery of the part, as opposed to assemblies where the browser order of components means nothing.
That is a pretty astute assumption!
Believe me though this is always on our minds as a very nice thing to have and if we can find a way we will.
Take a lesson from Creo... 🙂
I find it interesting how, in the browser at a part level, you can't move geometry above the datums or other geometry that it uses as references (makes total and logical sense)
But in the assembly browser, part/component relationships seem to have no logic or meaning behind them: in that you can move one component up past the component that it uses to constrain itself in the assembly.
I have been using Inventor for about 4 months and I come from 8 years experience with Creo. I love how in Creo the assembly browser was the same as the model browser is in Inventor. Where components had relationships to other components in the order that they were brought into the assembly. That made total sense to me and I still find it difficult and confusing in assemblies in Inventor, how you can just drag components anywhere you want in the browser?!?! I Don't understand why this is? It makes it so much more difficult to know which parts are associated to other parts. And the biggest problem I find is when i delete a part that had a reference to another part then all of a sudden the part that had a relationship to the part I deleted becomes no longer fully constrained and there is no warning to let me know that one of my parts is now floating in space. I know I need to check with degrees of freedom, but that seems a waste of an extra step and it is a step that can be forgotten. And from my training with solidCAD, I am told there is no way to have degrees of freedom set to 'on' as a default.
Shouldn't the assembly browser work like the model browser?
I always hear how Inventor is so much easier than Creo and how Creo is such a pain and not user friendly, blah blah.. But it is a program that I find so much easier to work with. Granted, it doesn't have little windoows that come out and tell you exactly how to make an extrusion, and doesn't explain every little thing. But I find it so much more logical in the way it works.
Anyways, thats just a little sample of what I think of Inventor and Creo. There are some great parts about Inventor that far exceed parts of Creo, but my main thing is in the assemblies, how the browser seems to have no logic to it.
Sorry for writing in such an old post, but I saw that you are an employee and hopefully you will see this and could maybe offer a little explanation to the thought behind how and why the assembly browser is what it is. Thanks.
Also, about finding a way to group features in the browser of a part: make 'groups' a great feature that Creo has had since way back in the days of Pro/E