Allow to don't save cameraview in DesignView

[wolfgang_nickl]

We are working with the German version of Inventor 2014 and 2015, you can see this in the 'german' screen shot below.

In our opinion it isn't a good idea to always store the camera view in a designview.

For example think of a machine with a sheet metal covering. You make a designview with covering

named "covered" and without the covering named "uncovered". Then you work in designview "uncovered"

and zoom in and rotate. To check something you want to see the cover. While activating "covered" your

acitve view get lost, your view rotates and moves to the view stored in "covered".

So please add an option to save designviews without stored cameraview. This could be an

additional option as shown in the jpg. Only the visibility and color of

the components should be stored. In our meaning this should be the

standard behavior or it should be possible to make it the standard behavior in the application settings.

[wolfgang_nickl]

Another solution for us is to have a second activation command for the DesignView in the context menu, lets name it

'activate with current view'.

This command activates the DesignView but lets the camera unchanged.

We made this for our company with a command in the Ribbon.

A dialog with a list control that offers all available DesignViews is shown.

With a double click on one it activates this view with the actual camera view.

Following you will find a VBA-Snippet that sets the third DesignView active and

let the View unchanged.

Sub subChangeDV()
    Dim oAsmCompDef As AssemblyComponentDefinition
    Set oAsmCompDef = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.ComponentDefinition
    Dim oViewRep As DesignViewRepresentation
    Dim oWNCameraNew As Inventor.Camera
    Set oViewRep = oAsmCompDef.RepresentationsManager.DesignViewRepresentations.Item(3)
    Set oWNCameraNew = ThisApplication.ActiveView.Camera
    oViewRep.Activate
    oWNCameraNew.ApplyWithoutTransition
End Sub

Maybe Autodesk can integrate this in the Context menu.

Best Regards

Wolfgang