Broken view of sketch

[Vicktoria_Schnitzer]

Hello,

I've added a sketch to a view. With the sketch included the view is too long therefore I want to apply 'Brake' to make the it shorter. The function allows me to add broken lines, but won't recognise the sketch as part of the view.

I really want to keep the sketch to scale - how can I overcome this problem?

in the attached pic, red is the sketch..

Thank you,

[chris54]

That looks like an ipt file.  Views are used in .idw files.

That being said, you can use the Break command in the Modify panel while working with your .idw file. 

[Cadmanto]

Hi Vicktoria,

Outside of a drawing there is no way to break a view.  Technically views only exist in drawings.  In the drawing, there is this command that breaks up the views and keeps all dimensions parametric to the model.

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[Vicktoria_Schnitzer]

Hi Chris,

I copied the view beyond the paper size, that's why it has a grey background. I am working in .idw .

not sure what you mean by Modify panel?

Thank you,

[Vicktoria_Schnitzer]

Hi Cadmanto,

The sketch was drawn inside the view and is attached to it. View and sketch are in the same scale.

I was able to do the same in Solidedge. Shame it can't be done in inventor.

Thanks, 

[Cadmanto · Accepted solution]

I understand what you are saying.  My confusion is why not make this sketch part of your model geometry.  Then when the view is brought in, you can use the command I showed you in my last post.

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[Vicktoria_Schnitzer]

Hi,

Th reason is because it's much quicker for me to sketch up lines to represent the wires rather than model it. I won't be using this wiring layout in my assembly, so I don't want to spend much time on this.

Thanks,

[Cadmanto]

Yeah,  unfortunately I am not thinking of any other way other then what I have outlined above.  Because the sketch is not parametric to anything, speaks to why this can't be broken.  At least automatically anyway.

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[Vicktoria_Schnitzer]

Thanks again,

Until I find a more appropriate solution, I'll adjust the view scale.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Victoria,

Inventor's drawing strength is to create high performance associative drawing views. It is not good at creating non-associative views, since it is not Inventor's focus. It is like using AutoCAD workflows in Inventor. Do you have access to AutoCAD? If yes, you may consider using an AutoCAD workflow called VIEWBASE. It can also create associative drawing views from Inventor components. It sounds like you still like to use non-associative views, you may want to leverage AutoCAD to create drawing views.

Many thanks!

[chris54]

Can you create your view of the part (using the Break view command as necessary) on the .idw, and then add the sketch to the view???

[Vicktoria_Schnitzer]

hi Chris,

As shown in the picture attached, the sketch is a long wire while the part is relatively short. That won't help in this case unfortunatly