Display weight on 2d drawing

[dylanasafe]

Hi everyone,

We have multiple assemblies in Inventor and within each of these are multiple iassembly variants, (over 1000 in total).

Each variant has a 2D .dwg drawing which shows standard front and end views and a parts list.

We also show an exploded view, but to avoid having to create a presentation file for each variant we show a cropped view of the same presentation file on each .dwg file.

This leads to a problem though.  The weight of the assembly appears in the 2D drawing border for each variant if the presentation view is not there.  As soon as the presentation file view is added the weight disappears.  I am assuming it is because there are two different models displayed, (the main model which is a variant of the part, and the model that the presentation file has been created from).

Is there a way of selecting which model to look at to obtain the weight from?

Thank you in advance for any help that anyone can provide.

[tschaeferZNBXX]

Where is the weight populated in the 2D drawing?

Can you attach an example of this?

[Cadmanto]

Take a look at this thread.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/add-mass-iproperties-to-a-table-cell-in-a-drawing/td-p...

I am a little confused why you place a snap shot of the presentation file in your drawing instead of the actual presentation file.  Unless I am not understanding that correctly.  If that is an issue, I would learn how to create one and place the actual model view in the drawing.  The properties can be done as you want.

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[dylanasafe]

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I don't want to have to create presentation files for every instance.  We have well over a thousand instances over all our assembly files.  If there was a way of creating one presentation file and doing "save as" and "replace model", that would make things slightly easier, (I have previously put that forward as a request on the ideastation).  However, if I am correct, each presentation file has to be done from scratch.

Currently I create a presentation file from one instance from each iassembly table to use on the 2D drawings for all other instances from that iassembly.

Assy.ipt   contains iassemblies  assy1.ipt   assy2.ipt   assy3.ipt.......... assy35.ipt
.dwg drawings are created for instances  assy1,  assy2,  assy3........assy35.
"exploded" presentation snapshot of assy1 is shown on  assy1.dwg   assy2.dwg   assy3.dwg........ assy35.dwg

If there is a simpler way of showing the assembly and an exploded view of the assembly without creating loads of presentation files I would be a very happy man.



@Cadmantowrote:

Take a look at this thread.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/add-mass-iproperties-to-a-table-cell-in-a-drawing/td-p...

I am a little confused why you place a snap shot of the presentation file in your drawing instead of the actual presentation file.  Unless I am not understanding that correctly.  If that is an issue, I would learn how to create one and place the actual model view in the drawing.  The properties can be done as you want.

[Cadmanto]

I get it.  Without Vault, renaming .ipn is not the problem, but rather getting the new model swapped out internal to the presentation file is complicated at best.  Basically involves renaming current associated file then calling up the .ipn file and finding the new one.

Are you using Vault by any chance?  Thinking the copy design function inside of Vault could help you here.

Windows 10 x64 -16GB Ram
Intel i7-6700 @ 3.41ghz
nVidia GTS 250 - 1 GB
Inventor Pro 2018

[dylanasafe]

Hi Scott,

We do use Vault.