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Inventor Highlight The Drawing Line Geometry

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:55:52 GMT

HI , guys how can i highlight the drawing like this in autodesk inventor .

Thnx

kelly.young has embedded your image and edited your subject line for clarity: Highlight the Drawing

Re: Inventor Highlight The Drawing Line Geometry

johnsonshiue — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:58:10 GMT

Hi! There is a less straight forward way to do that. You will need to set the "background" components to Reference components. Then set the Reference components layer to solid line but in gray color. It should work but it seems to much work just to highlight a few components in the drawing view. Do you might elaborate the need to do this? Couldn't you use Detail View to highlight the components?

Many thanks!

Re: Inventor Highlight The Drawing Line Geometry

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:59:07 GMT

i absolutely have no idea about what u r talking about. whats background component

Re: Inventor Highlight The Drawing Line Geometry

TheCADWhisperer — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:59:36 GMT

The gray components in the background.

Re: Inventor Highlight The Drawing Line Geometry

NachoShaw — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:59:55 GMT

If you set the background components to reference, wouldn't that affect them in the whole assembly?

Re: Inventor Highlight The Drawing Line Geometry

Xun.Zhang — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 20:00:21 GMT

Hello,

Yes, it is affect to entire assembly especially for BOM.

Another way to try, Make the one you like to highlighted invisible in the drawing and create a new sketch based on the view, project all of geometries and change the display style to gray, then, make all of those components invisible and make the highlighted one visible again, you are all set now.

Hope it helps!

Re: Inventor Highlight The Drawing Line Geometry

jhackney1972 — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 20:00:42 GMT

The easiest and most straight forward method to achieve what you desire is to use the Properties of each part or sub-assembly in the browser. Take a look at my screencast to see what I mean.

Here is a screen capture of my result:

Re: Inventor Highlight The Drawing Line Geometry

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 08:20:24 GMT

thank you so much ! i wil definetly give a try . thank you again !