Creating floor level annotations

[mjc_design]

Good morning!

Does anyone have a clever way of doing floor level annotations on an IDW, that will update with the model?

I am currently working on a structural steel building, and the project goalposts are moving all the time. It would be great if i could annotate the floor levels (+20.000, +33.500 etc...) and have them linked to the assembly. As everything is changing by the week, having to go through and edit all the text annotations is a bit of a pain. Just thought i'd ask, in case someone has encountered this before and had a nifty way around it.

Currently using autodesk inventor 2015

Thanks

Matt

[admaiora · Accepted solution]

Hi Matt,

could this work for you?

[mjc_design]

Thanks for your reply.

The video looks great - is it possible to do this without the baseline on the drawing somehow? Our baseline is a long way below what is shown on the drawing. If i could bring through a workplane from my model as the 0.000 onto a sketch, and then hide the sketch when i have finished?

Also, are there settings to get the triangle/arrowhead as per the drawing below? Would be nice to be consistent with work that was done first with AutoCAD.

Matt

[admaiora · Accepted solution]

Hi Matt,

 at the moment i don't see a direct easy solution for your first question, just a workaround, sorry.

Inventor ordinate dimension needs the origin point fixed somewhere as the zero reference.

For the second question you can use ascii characters in the style.

[mjc_design]

Perfect, thanks a lot!

Matt

[mjc_design]

Discovered that you can manually adjust the datum location after you place it.

So i put the datum onto the top of the concrete level that was shown on the drawing. Then RMB on the datum, chose EDIT, and entered -17200 to adjust the datum to where i needed it to be. Unfortunately i can't link this dimension to my model in any way i could see, but it allows me to do what i want.