auto sizing sheets

[SeitzStainlessInc]

Is there a way to have the sheet auto size to the object you're displaying? I'm new to Inventor, but it seems like a bad idea to scale the object to fit the frame instead of the other way around. The end result is nearly identical but the scale callouts under everything are ecessive when you start off scaling at the very start everytime.

[Anonymous]

I don't think so.  You can delete the scale from the view labels or turn them off.

[mpatchus]

Edit your styles to have the view scale omitted.

[mrattray]

It's not AutoCAD, and most people don't have plotters anymore.

[rhasell]

Hi

Perhaps I misunderstood your question. But you have to scale your views when you want to produce a hard copy print.

Most printers are either A3 or A4. How do you fit a 50m wide structure on an A3 piece of paper? I think it is easier to scale the views and move them around on the sheet, than to try and calculate the print scale from an auto scaled sheet of for example 50mx200m sheet.

Then you get detailed views that are of a greater scale, to show detail a bit more clearly, how is that managed?

If it's just the scale text below the view, then follow the previous comments to remove it from the views.

[Paul-Mason]

Inventor will auto-scale the fist placed view to the BEST in it opinion for the size paper that you have set in in the template.

To get a different scale view on a bigger sheet you need to change the sheet size BEFORE PLACING any views other wise you'll need to follow part the instruction further down on how to scale a view :-

1) Start a new IDW, you'll NOT have the 2014-Inch idw that's my custom template.

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3) Select your required paper size.

Changing the active sheet size will ONLY affect the current IDW file any others created will STILL BE at the default sheet size.

Now if you wish to change the actual scale of the placed view, you need to select the fist view you placed

1)

2)