topic Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point in Inventor Forum

Revision Table insert/anchor point

Curtis_W — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:03:11 GMT

Hi everyone,

Can someone tell me if I've overlooked something concerning the insert/anchor point of a Revision Table. I have a rev table with the headers at the bottom, that increments upward.

The problem is that this causes the table to "jump" off the base line of the drawing in certain instances, one of which where the row height changes, is shown in this video. This is due to the fact that it holds its upper left anchor point.

I have automation that fills out the rev blocks, and it can handle this as part of that, but I feel like I should be able to anchor the table in the lower right.

Have I forgotten or overlooked something here? Or is there no option to define the revision table's anchor point?

Thanks in advance,

Curtis

Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point

mcgyvr — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:13:16 GMT

Don't think you are missing anything there..

Probably a small bug..

It should stay since you have the header at the bottom

Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point

asiteur — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:18:09 GMT

I don't think the UI has any control on this.

But you can probably design something based on the following properties of the Revision Table object:

Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point

johnsonshiue — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:18:34 GMT

Hi Curtis,

What build are you on? We had some issues like this in 2017 RTM. They should have been resolved in R3.

Many thanks!

Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point

Curtis_W — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:21:25 GMT

@johnsonshiue wrote:

Hi Curtis,

What build are you on? We had some issues like this in 2017 RTM. They should have been resolved in R3.

Many thanks!

Hi johnsonshiue,

This is something I've been dealing with for this specific rev block setup up since Inventor 2015, but I'm currently using Inventor 2017.3.1

Thanks!

Curtis

Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point

johnsonshiue — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:29:23 GMT

Hi Curtis,

Could you send me the idw file so I can play around with? I want to make sure I am seeing the same behavior as you are seeing.

Many thanks!

Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point

Curtis_W — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:34:40 GMT

Hi asiteur,

Yep that's exactly how I'm handling it now, and it works fine, but this came up again today from a more manual workflow that one of our users noticed, and I just keep thinking that it shouldn't be such an issue. So I was going to put in an idea, but wanted to confirm that I hadn't overlooked something.

Thanks!

Curtis

Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point

Curtis_W — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:53:18 GMT

Hi johnsonshiue,

After your email, we checked this in 2018 and it seems to be resolved!

For everyone else I'm told that a near future update to 2017 is likely to fix this as well.

Thanks again,

Curtis

Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point

RRX-Admin — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 15:31:37 GMT

Good morning Johnson,

We recently (last week) updated our template to include the revision block for initial revisions. We have it formatted with the title in the bottom row and it builds upwards, initially attached to the title block. The issue we found is that is the sheet size changes the revision block becomes detached and ends up in space. If the rev block is attached to the title block I was under the impression that it followed any changes. We are currently on 2018.3.6, build 284.

Hopefully I'm just forgetting something simple, it's been a very long time since I've formatted a template with a rev block included.

Dave Rose

Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point

johnsonshiue — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:09:50 GMT

Hi Dave,

This is a known behavior on 2018 and later. The behavioral change is due to refactoring Revision Table code. In the past, Revision Table has its own unique table definition which is different than other table types (Hole Table, PartsList, General Table, and so on). It is making the style settings inconsistent.

The change does not impact any existing Revision Table. But, for any newly created Revision Table, the new code will kick in and the row height or column width might be different than before. I think you are seeing the behavior.

To update it, you will need to open the template file, delete the existing Revision Table, insert a new one and adjust row height and column width. Save the template.

Many thanks!

Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point

johnsonshiue — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:10:44 GMT

Hi Dave,

Please see my reply to the other thread.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/revision-table-insert-anchor-point/m-p/9204773/highlight/false#M771897

Many thanks!

Re: Revision Table insert/anchor point

RRX-Admin — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:06:42 GMT

Johnson,

Until last week there was no revision table on the drawing template, this is a brand new rev block and the sizing is all correct. The only issue we have is the rev block breaking away from the title block if the sheet is resized. The issue isn't a critical one as the user only has to move the rev block but because it is a template issue it will affect 100% of all new drawings and I'll undoubtedly hear about it.

I tried to follow the link below and it circled me back to this page.

Dave