If you Right click a named view there's an option to update, here's the help on the feature. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work because as soon as I right click a named view to orientate to a new position the view rotates to the old view so you can't make it update to a new view!
Mark
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It is confusing but first pick Named View then adjust, and while Named View is still picked click RMB to update.
In general I agree it's so confusing we can call it a bug.
Michał
OK that works is you don't want the view aligned with a face, the trouble is if you click Look at then try and use update it just rotates back to the old view first. I was hoping there was a way to realign the view so it could be used in a 2d drawing and allow the view to update if you moved the part in an assembly.
See this thread for a better expination.
Mark
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We are aware of this, I will add your notes. Looks like using the Look At command clears the pre-selection.
Have you considered just creating new named views?
In the thread I linked to in my second post there's someone using a Named View as the base view in a 2d drawing, this workaround works quite well. The problem is if you move a part in an assembly the Named View is no loner aligned with the component, I thought that update named view might allow you to get the alignment right again. I don't think there's any way to delete a named view, make a new one and link the new named view to an existing base view in a 2d drawing or have I missed something.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I'll add this note to the bug report and bump the priority. This is now about extended workflows.
In another thread I came up with a workaround where you can apply a joint to a surface of a component then use look at to align the view, this works well when you have a component rotated in more than one plane. It still suffers from the problem where you can't update the named view, what would be useful is a named view linked to a joint so any movements of the assembly update the view.
This is a real big weakness with having all the components in one design file as opposed to a design file for each part. If all parts are in separate files then inserted into an assembly the drawings made from the linked files don't need updating every time the assembly's modified. @cmiller66 @TimeraAutodesk is there anything in the works to help with this problem?
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