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Is it possible to move drawing sketch to top layer?

emimo18 — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 09:52:51 GMT

Hello all,

I want to know if it is possible to move a drawing sketch to the top layer in Inventor so sketches do not intertwine as seen in image 1 below. What i want is for the sketch to look like image 2. I made image 2 with windows "snip and sketch" tool in case you are wondering about that.

Image 1.

Image 2.

Thanks for reading.

Emil Møller

Re: Is it possible to move drawing sketch to top layer?

JDMather — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:21:25 GMT

Can you use a Sketch Symbol rather than a sketch?

Re: Is it possible to move drawing sketch to top layer?

emimo18 — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:37:40 GMT

I tried that. The same clipping issue appear. See image 1 below for an example. When i export as a pdf it becomes even worse. See image 2.

Image 1.

Image 2, pdf.

Re: Is it possible to move drawing sketch to top layer?

johnsonshiue — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 19:28:42 GMT

Hi! The only workflow I can think of is to use Sketch Symbol with Filled Text (all spaces). Create one horizontal bar and one vertical bar. After that, rotate the symbol 45 deg. The Filled Text does clip over the view geometry.

Many thanks!

Re: Is it possible to move drawing sketch to top layer?

emimo18 — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 22:01:35 GMT

Hi. Thanks for your reply. I tried using a sketch symbol as you suggest. It works great when it is placed in front of a drawing view and nothing else. Then no clipping issues occur. But i have several sketches i made in a view and that is when clipping issues will appear from what i have gathered. If the number of sketches in a view is larger than 1 and the sketches are placed on top of eachother clipping issues will occur. I am tempted to conclude that inventor is not the proper tool at the moment to use when i want to add fetures such as these to my drawings. I would even go as far as to say that it is probably best to stick with pure technical drawings when using Inventor. Thanks again for your reply. I appreciate it very much.

Re: Is it possible to move drawing sketch to top layer?

swalton — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 20:49:28 GMT

Another choice would be creating a very thin extrusion in the 3d modeling environment, then showing or hiding it in the various drawing views. That way Inventor's normal drawing view calculation would clip the objects behind the extrusion.

Re: Is it possible to move drawing sketch to top layer?

emimo18 — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 08:12:31 GMT

Thanks for your reply. I considered doing that too. It is a good solution but not exaclty what i want. I often make drawings that goes a bit beyond just a technical drawing because i frequently add descriptive sketches and custom symbols to my drawing views. I wanted to keep these edits all in my drawings. I am not fond of editing my parts to create visuals for my drawings. It just seems like it will become messy if i start doing that to all my parts. But i can definitly do that as a last resort. So it is a good suggestion. Thanks.