topic Re: How to change the scale of sketches in drawing inventor in Inventor Forum

How to change the scale of sketches in drawing inventor

autodesk2UDFSX — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:11:31 GMT

I'm importing a DXF into a drawing to add some dimensions to it but it comes in as 1:1 and I can't seem to find a way to scale the sketch so the dimensions placed continue to reflect the actual size like they would if I'd imported a view. the trouble is there isn't a model I can place to scale the sketch with and a blank part doesn't seem to work.

Re: How to change the scale of sketches in drawing inventor

kacper.suchomski — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:24:02 GMT

https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2025/ENU/?guid=GUID-962CEE71-8BE4-4DA6-B51E-341319C64FA4

Re: How to change the scale of sketches in drawing inventor

EdvinTailwind — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:24:48 GMT

If you double-click the view or right-click it -> Edit View you find the scale options:

Re: How to change the scale of sketches in drawing inventor

autodesk2UDFSX — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:40:56 GMT

Maybe I've done something wrong, I cant get get dialog box to come up.

I think the difference might be that that you've got there is a view. all I did was:

Open drawing template> start sketch> insert ACAD file.

The resulting geometry doesn't appear to be recognised as a view and I'm unsure how to change that.

Re: How to change the scale of sketches in drawing inventor

EdvinTailwind — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:53:32 GMT

Try File -> Open -> Import CAD Files and then follow the steps. I just used the Default settings. This will generate a new IDW-file with the DXF content.

Re: How to change the scale of sketches in drawing inventor

autodesk2UDFSX — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:06:35 GMT

The issue I've found with that was that the view imported that way drops the geometry in a drawing that fits it, no drawing border or anything. however I have been able to copy it into a second drawing where I can scale it to what I need. a little round about but no worse then the solution I came up with in the mean time which was to import the geometry into a part sketch instead.

I still feel like there's a simpler solution available that we're missing but this will work for me for now.

Re: How to change the scale of sketches in drawing inventor

autodesk2UDFSX — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:44:10 GMT

The feature I was looking for and never realised is draft, it's in: Place Views > Create panel > Draft
never used it before but it does exactly what I needed allows you to scale the sketch created within.