Cut vs Projected lines on sheets

[msergiyenko]

Back in school when i was learning drawings, you only needed two pencils thin and wide. Everything is drawing with thin pencil and section cut lines is drawn with wide pencil. Somehow Inventor got away from this concept for all these years.

I never worked on any project or with any person who would not question Inventor's inability to differentiate between projected lines vs. cut lines. Software obviously knows the deference (it knows how to add hatches), we just need one more step, one more layer, one more line weight to make our drawings look amazing.

Autodesk, please, please, please!!! Its a common practice for hundreds of years, but for some reason you chose to troll your loyal customers to do this by hand (there are much more extremely frustrating points to be addressed, but in my opinion this one is on top of the list)

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I could be wrong. I thought the "Scale by Lineweight" option in each layer should be able to support the behavior you are talking about. Please share an example that you are struggling with. I would like to understand the behavior better.

Many thanks!

[Lucas.dolinarVFXZU]

Could you send a screenshot explaining what a cut line means for you?
I am guessing the projected lines are Model edges?

[msergiyenko]

Thank you for taking look at it.  I have prepared few sample drawings, hope it will make it clear.  BTW, i did set all my layers to "Scale by Line Weight"

• SKA-01 - shows default behavior, screenshot of layer settings is attached
• SKA-02 - shows desired behavior, added new "Visible (STN) - Cut" layer that I had to set manually, layer settings also attached
• Project Sample - Just to give you rough idea of drawings we produce for real projects (title block was deleted, I hope you understand)

Regards,

[Lucas.dolinarVFXZU]

it is very hard to see that 0.006 inch difference in Line width....
am i correct to assume you changed the Part Edges in the sectioned view?

[msergiyenko]

Could you please clarify what is the point of your question? 

I gave example of very obvious drafting technique, difference in line weights makes no deference.  If its hardly visible, that can be changed.  My point is Inventor doesn't put cut edges on separate layer.

[Lucas.dolinarVFXZU]

my question was meant to clarify which edges excatly you mean by: cut edges...

[sundars · Accepted solution]

Hi @msergiyenko 

I think its a great idea to put the cut edges in a different layer. It not too hard to do - just the process of adding a new layer in the drawing framework and assigning cut edges to that layer when the cut view is calculated. I would encourage you to log this on our ideas forum as does require a project for us to do.

Alternately (and the painful way) is to create your own layer and select the cut edges manually and re-assign it and assuming that you can identify them visually 😞

Thanks for the suggestions.

-shiva

[msergiyenko]

Thank you for reminding me about Ideas site.  I submitted this post there as well.

[SBix26]

I'll vote for it if you provide a link here...

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Sam B

Inventor Pro 2023.0.1 | Windows 10 Home 21H2

[msergiyenko]

Thank you @SBix26,

Here is link to Inventor Ideas post:

Cut vs Projected lines on sheets - Autodesk Community