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    <title>topic Re: Problem with overlay view creation in Inventor Programming - iLogic, Macros, AddIns &amp; Apprentice</title>
    <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/problem-with-overlay-view-creation/m-p/12954121#M170560</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7055685"&gt;@denis.semeniuc&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; I pretty much never use overlay views where I work, but it seems like the main point of creating overlay views is for comparing different positional representations of the same model.&amp;nbsp; But the '&lt;A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-00BDBDC4-CFA8-4BC2-936E-4028BB9FF0BF" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;manual creation' documentation&lt;/A&gt;' does say that we should be able to create them without a positional representation.&amp;nbsp; However, the Inventor API documentation for those two methods (links below) both appear to require us to specify the name of a positional representation, otherwise they will fail/error, and do not mention the ability to leave that value empty or Null.&amp;nbsp; You could check within the Inventor Ideas forum to see if anyone is requesting an updated or alternative version of these methods that would not require that input.&amp;nbsp; If you find one, you can vote for it, but if not found, you could create a post about it.&amp;nbsp; Not sure it would be that popular though.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2024/ENU/?guid=DrawingViews_AddOverlayView" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;DrawingViews.AddOverlayView&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2024/ENU/?guid=DrawingViews_AddOverlayView2" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;DrawingViews.AddOverlayView2&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:26:15 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>WCrihfield</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2024-08-12T17:26:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Problem with overlay view creation</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/problem-with-overlay-view-creation/m-p/12953785#M170549</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;i try to create the overlay view and i recived the error.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;problem with positional view. i dont have positional view.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;oView2 = oSheet.DrawingViews.AddOverlayView(oViewISO, "[Principale]", "Par défaut", 0, DrawingViewStyleEnum.kHiddenLineRemovedDrawingViewStyle, 0)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;if i create one all works.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;you have the solutions?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:37:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/problem-with-overlay-view-creation/m-p/12953785#M170549</guid>
      <dc:creator>denis.semeniuc</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-08-12T14:37:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Problem with overlay view creation</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/problem-with-overlay-view-creation/m-p/12954121#M170560</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7055685"&gt;@denis.semeniuc&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; I pretty much never use overlay views where I work, but it seems like the main point of creating overlay views is for comparing different positional representations of the same model.&amp;nbsp; But the '&lt;A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-00BDBDC4-CFA8-4BC2-936E-4028BB9FF0BF" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;manual creation' documentation&lt;/A&gt;' does say that we should be able to create them without a positional representation.&amp;nbsp; However, the Inventor API documentation for those two methods (links below) both appear to require us to specify the name of a positional representation, otherwise they will fail/error, and do not mention the ability to leave that value empty or Null.&amp;nbsp; You could check within the Inventor Ideas forum to see if anyone is requesting an updated or alternative version of these methods that would not require that input.&amp;nbsp; If you find one, you can vote for it, but if not found, you could create a post about it.&amp;nbsp; Not sure it would be that popular though.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2024/ENU/?guid=DrawingViews_AddOverlayView" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;DrawingViews.AddOverlayView&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2024/ENU/?guid=DrawingViews_AddOverlayView2" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;DrawingViews.AddOverlayView2&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:26:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/problem-with-overlay-view-creation/m-p/12954121#M170560</guid>
      <dc:creator>WCrihfield</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-08-12T17:26:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Problem with overlay view creation</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/problem-with-overlay-view-creation/m-p/12954137#M170561</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;THANKS&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:33:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/problem-with-overlay-view-creation/m-p/12954137#M170561</guid>
      <dc:creator>denis.semeniuc</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-08-12T17:33:08Z</dc:date>
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