Work Surface visibility in drawings

[djreesing]

Hello,

I have a similar problem as in these posts:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/Surfaces-visible-in-IDW/m-p/3612220/highlight/true#M...

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/surface-visability-in-an-idw/m-p/3669570/highlight/t...

I have an assembly with a couple of parts. Some parts contain work surfaces which are made invisible in the part. When a view of the assembly is placed on the drawing all seems to be fine, surfaces are invisible. However when I make a part invisible in the drawing view and after this make it visible again the surfaces are also visible.

I've tried to create a view rep as described in one of the above posts, but this doesn't solve my problem. The 'delete face' workaround from the other post does work but it's not a real solution in my opinion.

How can I make a work surface invisible in a part and prevent it from ever showing up in a drawing (unless you specifically tell it to). Basically the pre-2013 functionality.

Best regards,

Daniël

IV201

[PaulMunford]

Make sure it is off in the part. Then in any sub assemblies and finally the top level assembly.

Make sure that your work features are off in the 'master' view, as well as the default view.

[Anonymous]

And make sure you use associative in drawings when using view reps:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/Drawing-View-quot-Associative-quot-Selection/td-p/34...

This should work, it always is.

Greg

[djreesing]

When I make the view associative the surfaces are invisible, just like in the assembly. However when I disable the associativity and want to toggle the visibility of certain parts in the drawing view (so not with a view rep) the surfaces show up when a part is made visible again, even though they are disabled in the part itself. I first started to see this behavior in Inventor 2013, so something has definitely changed here comparing to earlier releases.

I don't understand the logic behind this behavior, when something is turned off in the part it should not show up on the drawing.

Daniël

[djreesing · Accepted solution]

Well just tried the same thing in Inventor 2014 and here it seems to work fine again. Apparently the thing they've changed in 2013 is fixed in 2014.

So the solution would be to move to 2014, case closed.

[Bert_Bimmel]

Ok, and now, what's the purpose of this beeing grayed out nowerdays...

... unless you find this well hidden toggle:

???