A couple of things:
1. Instead of making things black you can use the black/white or Index color
7 in AutoCAD and this will be respected in Inventor. Inventor can set an
"Automatic" color in the color dialog which amounts to the same thing.
2. Do you have SP1 installed? There may have been a bug fix for an issue
such as you are describing.
The only time anything should shift is when you initially save an .idw to
.dwg and set your plot device in AutoCAD. This will offset your Inventor
geometry by the size of the device's printable margins, because AutoCAD is
redefining the origin. If you save the .dwg and open in Inventor, we will
automatically compensate for this, and if you save again (from Inventor) we
will maintain the mapping from then on. Perhaps the problem is your are not
saving the .dwg from AutoCAD after you configure your plot settings?
If you are running SP1 and you can reproduce the shifting title block,
please post the file and the exact set of steps, and we will investigate.
If you are able to get an Inventor .dwg with your title block that's not
shifting, use this as your template for creating new Inventor drawings, this
should work much better with respect to plotting.
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Robert McMillan
Autodesk Inventor Developer
wrote in message news:5738686@discussion.autodesk.com...
I haven't gotten around to learning how to set up a smart Inventor type
border, so thus far I've just been using my old Autocad titleblock... after
turning everything to black and actually setting line widths instead of
using my old pen settings that I developed about 1994. Man its hard to kick
old habits, isn't it?
Anyways, it seems to be working great, except that Inventor doesn't want to
center the title block on the paper size... as a work around I'm creating my
details in Inventor and then opening in AutoCAD to do the actual plotting,
which allows me to center the extents on the papersize...
Anyways, my point is that when I re-open the dwg in Inventor it offsets the
titleblock again, and when I re-open in AutoCAD, I have to reset my plot
manager settings in AutoCAD. This seems a bit odd, but overall it still
amazes me how well the two programs interchange data.
Cheers,
Shawn Fitzpatrick
Inventor Noob... but learning 🙂