Annotations for elevations?

[kadscad]

Looking around at others inventor drawings I've noticed that often elevations are never named or the scale called out.

Is this a mechanical drafting standard? 

I'm going to be using Inventor in for architectural \ woodworking detaililng. 

I really want to keep my drawings following those standards or "That look"

So I want annotation symbols such as

Elevation arrow

Detail circles

Section

Elevation title

and  so on

Does anyone have Architectural annotation blocks\smbols they are willing to share that I can import into my border template?

[IgorMir]

I don't think the symbols you are after available off the shelf, so to speak. If they are - I will stand corrected. If they are not - than you can create them all as a sketch symbols in the drawing environment and use them as needed. View annotations, BTW can show the view scale factor. But I personally never quote a scale factor on a drawing. Because I don't want some "educated" workers measure something on the drawing and multiply it by the scale factor shown, only to end up with the wrong dimension. Because the TB is A1, printed on A3 piece of paper. 

Cheers,

Igor.

[3D4Play]

You're asking about two distinctly different things:

First: Yes, you can set your project view settings to show both the view name and the view scale in the styles settings for your project (screenshot 1).

Second: I interact with structural and architectural disciplines a bit, and have created a few of my own sketch symbols to satisfy a few of those needs. For example, I have a left- and a right-side elevation symbol, break line and grid bubble (screenshot 2). However, the text for reference and elevation has to be manually entered - it's not dynamic, unfortunately. When you say "Detail circle" and Section", I presume you are referring to Architectural section and detail view symbols, and their corresponding view label symbols (i.e. circle at left or right of the view label, with view number and sheet number inside)? If so, forget it.   While the view label properties are exposed in the styles settings, they are not exposed, as far as I know, in the sketch symbol creation interface. (Screenshot 3)

I encourage you to try building a few sketch symbols, so you can actually experiment with what you can do with them, but - more important - also so you can understand their limitations in this particular context.

 

kelly.young has embedded your images for clarity.

[kadscad]

I played around with custom annotation symbols this weekend. 

I can place elevation indicators, elevations view label and sections but its all manual. I cant replace the default inventor annotation symbols and I can't make them dynamic, something you would see in AutoCAD or other programs All of these below with the exception of the elevation title are dynamic. 

[3D4Play]

Yes, That's the ticket! You're correct, Inventor doesn't do "Dynamic" in the AutoCAD sense of dynamic blocks or symbols. I'd like to be able to do with Inventor sketch symbols what Revit lets you do with them: Change the default section cut symbol and add live view labels and sheet references, which are "attached" to the views they are associated with. If I interpret what you've done correctly, your "C6." mark is actually the <sheet number> parameter, used as a prefix, which will update depending upon where you drop the symbol, right? I wonder why the <View label> parameter isn't available like this...maybe someone from Autodesk can tell us?

[kadscad]

 C6 .is part of the sheet number.

I cant believe when Autodesk has the technology already in your cache they dont incorporate those tools across all programs