Radius tangent edge management in idw

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 18:20:54 GMT

I'm using inventor professional 2017. What is the best way to manage the tangent edge projection of all the filets and radius in all the views of idw? If I turn off tangent edges too much detail is lost. If I turn it on I find myself manually selecting and turning visibility off for hundreds of lines to clean up the views so they can be legible. I attached a view of an area of a casting.

Re: Radius tangent edge management in idw

Cadmanto — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 18:53:40 GMT

Welcome to the forum.

When you are dealing with parts like this, there is no slam dunk answer. You can do what you appear to be doing and that is turning on the tangent lines under the Display options when you edit the view, then turn off the tangency lines that are not needed. You can turn the view to be shaded or create an isometric view to show these features.

Hard for the software to determine which tangent lines are required, so it shows them all.

I personally wish it would just show outline edges instead of every radius edge.

You can also change the way they are displayed by maybe changing the line style.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/tangent-edges-style/td-p/6521195

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