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Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

jakesXQVXV — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:09:25 GMT

Hello,

Has anyone else noticed a change in the shared view function within inventor since downloading Inventor 2026?

Since updating I am having an issue where the created share view is displaying all surfaces, even though their visibility is set to off at the part level. Previously, the visibility state was followed when creating a share view.

Also experiencing an issue where the default top plane is no longer following the default plane set in the document settings. It seems to be defaulting to the inventor default plane (XZ). Previously the default plane that is set in document settings was followed when creating a share view.

Thanks.

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

johnsonshiue — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:20:51 GMT

Hi Jake,

I could be wrong but I am not aware of any change in this regard. Please share an ipt file that exhibits the behaviors. I would like to understand the Shared View behavioral change better.

Many thanks!

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

kacper.suchomski — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:47:48 GMT

The latest version of AV supports view representations.

It would be best if you could provide a sample file and a link to the AV for that file.

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

SharkDesign — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:39:25 GMT

I was thinking the same as Kacper, could it be that your default view rep is showing in the viewer and you just need to activate the one where the surfaces were switched off?

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

jakesXQVXV — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:18:38 GMT

Hello,

I have not dug into the representations support, that maybe be the root of my issue now. Is this something that the end user opening the link will have to select? I suspect maybe the view being created from my assemblies is defaulting to "primary" view representation.

I've created a test part and link with a generic surface that has its visibility turned off. As you will see in the link, the surface is visible.

See attached.

https://autode.sk/3VjKvoz

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

johnsonshiue — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:11:55 GMT

Hi! The camera angle was incorrectly exported. This has been confirmed as a defect, INVGEN-86272.

Many thanks!

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

jakesXQVXV — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:28:59 GMT

Johnson,

Can you elaborate? Are you saying that the default top view export is confirmed a defect?

This doesn't address the representation. Upon further digging, the representation is exporting by default to the locked primary. This normally wouldn't be an issue but you can't modify it as its permanently locked.

I see that you can now select between the different view representations within the viewer. This in theory solves the issue as the end user could select the representation that is intended to view. However, I'm often sending these layouts to customers for viewing/review and unfortunately most customers do not have any idea how to navigate 3D modeling software/viewers. Sometimes the customers even have a hard time downloading free viewers to open other file time exports.

The share view was nice as you could simply send a link that was created from the active representation, colors, visibility, etc. all remained and the customer could open it on something as simple as a phone to view.

Is there a possibility the share view could revert back to being exported to the active representation by default?

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

johnsonshiue — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:52:31 GMT

Hi! Based on my understanding of the defect, it is indeed a regression from 2026 or prior releases. The process of preparing and converting Inventor model to the online format sets the camera angle incorrectly. It was working before but it is broken unfortunately. I am not aware of a workaround. I could be wrong but I don't think the fix would be able to "revert" the existing shared views that have the wrong camera angle.

Many thanks!

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

kacper.suchomski — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:54:02 GMT

A few things:

You can control visibility using views.
You can control visibility using the browser.
The Autodesk Viewer has always treated invisible elements as semi-transparent. It never completely removed them from view.
The problem is that AV doesn't currently recognize the visibility state of surfaces. This means they remain transparent in the graphics window (as intended), but are defined as visible in the browser, which is misleading for the user.

(view in My Videos)

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

christophe_reusen — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:24:32 GMT

Hi,

Any progress on the issue of the groundplane not being exported correctly?

kind regards.

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

jeremy_wasserstrass — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:39:31 GMT

What I have been doing to deal with the incorrectly orientated shared views is to drop my assemblies into another assembly and orientate them so the show up in the shared view with the orientation it is looking for.

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

christophe_reusen — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:02:19 GMT

Usefull, but how do you handle color overrides and camera display modes? They used to follow the situation at the moment of creating the shared view.

Screenshot of pre export in Inventor (with color overrides and perspective view, ground plane = XY, in respect to view cube orientation). Result is ortho, no color overrides and ground plane moved to ZX.

Please Autodesk, take some responsibility.

Re: Autodesk Shared Views - Inventor 2026

lauri_barnhart — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:25:13 GMT

Hi @christophe_reusen,

I wanted to check in and see if you still needed assistance, or if you found a solution to your question already? Let us know if you need further assistance by providing an update or if you have found a solution, please share it with the community so other members who may have the same question could learn from your experience.

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