topic Re: Change display of threaded hole? in Inventor Forum

Change display of threaded hole?

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:10:57 GMT

How can I change the display of threaded holes? Right now it shows up as a circle with a dashed circle around it like so:

The company I work for wants it as a circle with another circle with a small cutout like this:

How can I change how threaded holes are displayed? Thanks

Re: Change display of threaded hole?

mcgyvr — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:20:46 GMT

See here in your style/standard library..

Do you know how to properly make changes to the standards? in your template files,etc...?

Re: Change display of threaded hole?

Curtis_W — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:23:58 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Welcome to the forum.

mcgyvr beat me to it, but since I had it typed out, see these steps to go along with his reply:

From a drawing file go to the Manage tab > Styles Editor button, then in the resulting dialog box, select the active standard at the top of the left pane, then the View Preferences tab in the right tab

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
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Re: Change display of threaded hole?

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:29:11 GMT

Ah, yes thank you. I had a look in that exact menu but I didn't see it. I changed it and clicked "save and close," but it didn't change anything. I tried pressing update styles, nothing.

I tried closing the drawing and opening it again, still nothing.

Re: Change display of threaded hole?

johnsonshiue — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:33:11 GMT

Hi! Yes, the line type is controlled by the layer. You can either change on a per thread basis or you can change the default layer to threads.

For per thread change, select the thread in the drawing view and go to Annotate tab -> go to far right and change it to a different layer.

For entire drawing or standard, go to Manage -> Style Editor -> select the active standard -> Object Default -> click on the pencil button -> find Thread Line object -> select a different default layer. You can also create a new layer and assign a new linetype and then select it for Thread Line object.

Many thanks!

Re: Change display of threaded hole?

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:44:10 GMT

Thanks, I had a look in that same menu but didn't see it somehow.

I did that and clicked save and close but it didn't work! I tried exiting and opening Inventor and still nothing. Do I have to somehow update it? Or delete the view and make a new one?