Steve,
I run across the need to dimension between views all the time.
Although, it may not be according to the ASME standards, I find it very
helpful in clarifying what I want dimensioned.
One instance that comes to mind is dimensioning between a main view and
an auxillary view. If there is a hole in the auxillary view and I want
to locate it from a tangent rounded edge, it would communicate much
easier, if I could dimension the tangency from the main view and the
hole from the aux view.
This is just one of those instances where Autocad users coming over to
Inventor get frustrated, and say "Why can't I do this?" I highly
encourage the IV team to make little things like this a higher priority
if they want to wean them over.
If we could project geometry from different views into the same sketch,
it would help.
--
Aaron R. Friedman
ARF Designs
Steve Dennis (Autodesk, Inc) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We would like to know exactly what your workflow is so that such a
> dimension would actually have meaningful data in it.
>
> If I have 2 views on the sheet, what value do you expect to have displayed
> for a dimension between the two views? The "dimension" has no model value to
> display.
>
> A little more explanation on how you would use such capability would help us
> greatly here.
>
> Steve Dennis
> Autodesk Inventor Drawing Manager
>
> "nirekire" wrote in message
> news:8330099.1102599197425.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum2.autodesk.com...
>
>>Is there a way to dimension between views on an .IDW?
>>
>>We need the ability to dimension across different base views and due to
>
> modeling restrictions we can not combine the two .IAM's and create one base
> view.
>
>
