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Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

tmarrazzo — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:45:12 GMT

In Inventor 2013 when you would right click on a projected view of a part, the window that came up had a little cube you could click on and rotate the angle of view by a variable angle in all 3 planes. Inventor 2016 does not have that option to rotate the angle of view in my .idw. Is there a way I can rotate my view angle in 2016? I used to be able to do up my .idw and make my vie angle match previously drawn dws's in Autocad (these are catalog line drawings), and now I can't do that anymore. There has to be an easy answer, I can't imagine they would remove this option.

Tony

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

mdavis22569 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 20:07:40 GMT

I'm not sure 100% what you are referring too ...

but I thinking this is what you might be referring too ...

If not please post an example from 2013

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

tmarrazzo — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:02:02 GMT

The top one is the first screen you get when you right click on the view and choose edit view. The second one is the screen you get when you click the change view orientation icon that is what you see on the first shot. This allows you to choose the degrees of rotation and which plane you are rotating. That Icon is not on 2016.

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

JDMather — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:20:10 GMT

Changed in later releases.

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2017/ENU/?guid=GUID-59C0094B-4B2D-4176-ABC0-A9FB8E311316

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

tmarrazzo — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:38:28 GMT

I went ahead and marked this as solved, but unfortunately I don't have the current release and my company isn't doing support so I don't think I can even get it - my release doesn't have the custom view available 😞 It looks like I have to rotate the drawing/assy view and not the .idw view?

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:10:06 GMT

@tmarrazzo wrote:

... - my release ~~doesn't have the custom view available~~

I thought you said you were using r2016?

I just checked - and it is there?

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

tmarrazzo — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:13:20 GMT

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

JDMather — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:31:56 GMT

In Post #3 you are entering from the drawing environment, now in the latest image you are in the modeling environment.

I think you are getting the two view cubes mixed up.

Video to follow.

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

tmarrazzo — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:56:37 GMT

Nope, don't have a cube in my .idw's..........

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

JDMather — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:06:59 GMT

Can you attach a dummy *.ipt file and a dummy *.idw file here with one view of the part file?

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

tmarrazzo — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:10:44 GMT

Like this?

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

tmarrazzo — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:22:19 GMT

When I go to the View tab, and click on User Interface, the View Cube is grayed out?????

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

JDMather — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:34:55 GMT

What happens if you double click on your Base View (the one on the left side of the sheet.)?

(or right click on the Base View and select Edit View)
What happens if you start a new Base View on that sheet?

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

JDMather — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:32:14 GMT

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

tmarrazzo — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:34:57 GMT

Double clicking on the view did it, thank you!!!!!! I will play with it some more.

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

tmarrazzo — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 19:45:32 GMT

Not as fast and easy as 2013 but it gets the job done, thank you - you made my day - and Merry Christmas!

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

damjan_baraga — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 09:15:56 GMT

I have problem with rotation of views made with previous version (Inventor 2013).

Here is main view.

After double click on that view, I get this:

No possibility to turn this view.

If is view made in version 2019 or if is single, makes without problem, because it shows turning cube.

Re: Change View Orientation & Rotate Angle

msmaneBESKZ — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 07:45:49 GMT

Thank you for the illustrative answer.