topic Re: Horizontal and Vertical Constraints Not Consistent with View Block Text in Inventor Forum

topic Re: Horizontal and Vertical Constraints Not Consistent with View Block Text in Inventor Forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/horizontal-and-vertical-constraints-not-consistent-with-view/m-p/6203457#M377755 Eh, it's not a big deal for me anymore. I convinced my employer to make the switch from Inventor to Solidworks, and we are (I am!) much happier. It's bugs/features like this that drive me nuts working with Inventor. There's a host of other nit-picky issues that drove the switch, but in general Solidworks is much easier to use. I say this having used Inventor in undergrad, Solidworks in grad school, Inventor for about 2 years professionally, and now Solidworks about 6 months professionally.  In general, the design philosphy for Inventor seems to be, "Why does it matter if X does Y?" while Solidworks seems to be, "Should X do Y?" I'm the lone mechanical engineer in a company of software engineers, and they all seem to have a similar mindset - "Why would I re-write this interface? This is the way it is. It's a training issue and the customer just needs to learn this is the way it is." I also give everyone I work with a hard time about this. It doesn't matter what the easiest way to code/display/etc. I'll quote "Autodesk Expert Elite" LT Rusty: > If you redefine FRONT on the view cube to TOP instead, then magically all the horizontal and vertical stuff inside Inventor makes sense and works the way you'd expect it to. > So, in short, I'd say that it's the View Cube that's inconsistent with, oh, everything else.   > That said, it's probably not going to change, so ...  It's not this issue that drove me to switch, it's just that this issue is the epitome of what's wrong with Inventor. Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:34:25 GMT Anonymous 2016-03-07T21:34:25Z