topic Re: Sketch Does Not Rotate View Consistently in Inventor Forum

Sketch Does Not Rotate View Consistently

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:21:51 GMT

Create a new part

Click "Start 2D Sketch"

Click on the XZ (Top) plane

Watch as the view rotates to "look" at the sketch plane, but does so such that the plane is rotated 90 degrees. What is technically vertical is now rotated to be horizontal. Every. Single. Time. I don't remember Inventor 2014 behaving like this.

This complaint goes hand-in-hand with my other complaint, which is that horizontal is vertical on the left and right faces of the view cube (the constraints are flipped). It's frustrating because I have to constantly check "Am I on top view? Is my vertical constraint making things horizontal because the view cube rotated itself or because I'm on a left or right face?"

I make a fair number of bent sheet metal parts, and Inventor doesn't seem to care what the view cube orientation should be (according to the view cube text); modifying a sketch just moves the view to whatever is "closest" to the existing view. It can rotate the view to put a face right side up, upside down, or sideways.

I would like it if every time I go to a sketch I get the view that the sketch was created on. If I make a sketch clicking on the "Top" of the XZ plane, I want the view to adjust to make Z up, X horizontal, and to look at the model from the +Y side of that plane every time I go back to edit that part. What's especially frustrating is editing a sketch and having the view rotate such that the body of the part is between the camera view and the sketch plane. Then I have to rotate the part 180 degrees to get the proper view.

Re: Sketch Does Not Rotate View Consistently

johnsonshiue — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:11:52 GMT

Hi! Chuck,

What you are seeing on 2015 is the default "minimum rotation" behavior. The option is helping to avoid unnecessary rotation of sketch coordnate system when the sketch is placed on a face. The behavior is indeed different from 2014 or earlier. If you prefer the old behavior, you can change it back. Go to Tools -> Application Options -> Display -> scroll to the bottom -> select "Align with Local Coordinate System" -> Apply -> OK.

Another option you might consider is to create UCS before creating a sketch. This will ensure the exact orientation you like.

Thanks!

Re: Sketch Does Not Rotate View Consistently

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:44:12 GMT

That works, thanks so much!

Re: Sketch Does Not Rotate View Consistently

niraGUK29 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:29:16 GMT

In Inventor 2026, this setting just makes the view rotated 180 degree instead of 90 degree. So now the sketch is upside down. Is there an option to make it correct?

Re: Sketch Does Not Rotate View Consistently

swalton — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:59:17 GMT

Users have to redefine the sketch coordinate system to match the desired view orientation. Some folks like to redefine the View Cube to match the sketch. I don't usually work that way because my company uses the model coordinate system to define how the object sits in the real world. We like to keep the View Cube as the orientation tool, combined with renaming the origin work planes.

My understanding is that Inventor rotates the first sketch in a better way if the origin work planes are visible. We normally keep those planes hidden in our templates so I have not tried that workaround. I'm not sure it will help with additional sketches in the model.

You can find the command in the sketch ribbon, under the Constrain dropdown, if you have not added any geometry to the sketch.

If you need to redefine after there is geometry in the sketch, you have to start the command from the model browser.

Re: Sketch Does Not Rotate View Consistently

johnsonshiue — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:27:32 GMT

Hi! Then select "Minimum rotation" option instead.

Many thanks!