topic Re: Why are Projected and Auxiliary view becoming section views? in Inventor Forum

Why are Projected and Auxiliary view becoming section views?

SMillsYS3X2 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:42:49 GMT

The sequence of events ↓

• I make a base view.

• I make a projected view from it.

• I break the alignment of the projected view to the base view.

‼ It somehow becomes a section view??

My question; is there a setting to prevent this from happening? Or do I have to fix each view as this problem happens? Which I do by unchecking the "Definition in Base View" setting on the new 'section' view.

Re: Why are Projected and Auxiliary view becoming section views?

kacper.suchomski — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:30:41 GMT

@SMillsYS3X2 wrote:

‼ It somehow becomes a section view??

No view becomes a section view.

Views without a link become auxiliary views.

Drawing standards describe the positions of individual views relative to the base view.

If individual views are broken, they cease to satisfy the view definition and begin to satisfy the auxiliary view definition.

Adding markings describing the auxiliary view parameters to them is a logical consequence in accordance with drawing standards.

Usually, if you repeat a given setting in the view dialog many times (I don't know how many), Inventor remembers some settings after some time, but I can't guarantee that it will work in this case as well.

Re: Why are Projected and Auxiliary view becoming section views?

johnsonshiue — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:12:03 GMT

Hi! I have never seen this behavior before. If possible, please share the files that exhibit the behavior here or send it to me directly at johnson.shiue@autodesk.com.

Many thanks!

Re: Why are Projected and Auxiliary view becoming section views?

dan_inv09 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:22:18 GMT

It's not a section view. It puts what looks like a section view line to indicate where the view is looking.

One time I got all excited because I had put all sorts of dimensions on one of these broken views but I needed it to be a section view and thought that I could save the work of starting from scratch with a whole new view. (For a while after that I contemplated making every view a section view with the line off the view just in case.)

[And if I recall correctly, there was a time when you couldn't mess with that projected-become-auxiliary-view line. It was stuck where the programmers had decided it should be and you had to work the rest of your drawing around it, like you didn't already have enough trouble getting things to fit that made you have to move a projected view out of alignment!]

Re: Why are Projected and Auxiliary view becoming section views?

SMillsYS3X2 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:21:27 GMT

I make an example for you.

Re: Why are Projected and Auxiliary view becoming section views?

kacper.suchomski — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:40:42 GMT

The behavior of your file is as described in the first answer. Breaking view alignment logically transforms the projected view (defined as being forcibly aligned) into an auxiliary view that can be located anywhere on the sheet relative to the base.

You can change the auxiliary view label in S&SE.

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