Question on AddBaseView Method

[liminma8458]

Hi, all,

I am making a program that will create a drawing base view referring to a shrinkwrap part model which is also created earlier in the same program (and this part is not saved yet and with default document name such as "part1.prt" or "part2.prt"). But this way does not work out likely due to the reason as below:

On the other hand, in the API help file, I notice it implies that part document does not need to be saved first to a file on disc:

So, they are contradicted. Which is right?

Is there a way I can create a drawing view based on a part document which is not saved yet?

[Sergio.D.Suárez · Accepted solution]

First you will have to save the file, otherwise you can not create that view.
If you only want it temporarily you can first save the file, create the view, then export for example to "pdf", then delete the saved file, and finally close if you save your temporary template.

[BrianEkins]

I'm fairly certain that it used to behave like how I described it in the help, but that was many years ago and some changes have been made to drawings that require that the document exists on disk and unfortunately, the documentation hasn't been updated.

[liminma8458]

Indeed, the reason I don't want to save the shrinkwrap part is that it is big (like 50MB). I just need a PDF print for the customer. Too bad they take this option out.

Looks like Inventor sometimes abandons some good old feature when they make new upgrade. Such as something I complain in this thread: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/a-bug-in-update-3-of-inventor-2019/m-p/8667093#M737552. At lease they should keep the old information somewhere. Shrinkwrap part is a part. Keeping its original assemble surface information will cause confusion