Creating Custom Structural Content Center Parts

[tim.schroeder3K47N]

Problem:  I am looking for a way to reduce the number of lines shown in drawing details for beams, angles, channels, etc.  I know that I can highlight each line to turn off the visibility, but what a pain in the...

I am guessing that inventor has a profile in the database that it pulls from.  Can I access that and create a custom library and hide these lines so they don't ever appear?

Example of what I am referring to:

or structural components used in content center/frame generator.

[Michiel.Valcke]

When authoring a structural shape part, you can pick 2 frames, the first is for the extrusion, the second for the notch profile, neither has any influence on your profile lines generated in a 2D view.

As far as I know you can only turn the tangential edges in a view on or off, there is no in between. So it's all or nothing.

[Frederick_Law]

You'll need to create from sketch.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-30998A4E-8279-47A7-84A5-009ADD2EC1B7

You'll need to be creative to model them and not show those lines.

Probably remove all radius and taper.

And don't do FEA on them.

Try model them first.  Make sure they work the way you want before publishing to CC.

[tim.schroeder3K47N]

Is there a way to accomplish this by use of ilogic or VBA?

thanks

[Frederick_Law · Accepted solution]

Probably.

Very difficult to tell the program which edge to remove.

[tim.schroeder3K47N · Accepted solution]

10-4...Thanks for the input!