exploded view: trail line management

[L_Vercaempst]

I recently made an exploded view from a watertank containing several parts. When tweaking the components, inventor automatically makes so called 'trail lines'. Altough this works ok for small assemblies, creating big explosions results in a spaghetti of lines of wich most of them are out of place and/or don't need to be shown in the 2d drawing. Therefore I need to manually 'hide' the trail segments wich is a very time consuming job. 

Is here a more efficient workflow aroud this? I tried to draw the trail lines myself by either making a sketch or simply by using the 'centerline' from the symbols tab. This however add's them to the foreground wich looks a bit unprofessional...(see second image)

Any advice is greatly appreciated

[kacper.suchomski]

Hi

You can hide guides in bulk from the browser position in the presentation file.

[L_Vercaempst]

Hi, 

Thanks for the reply, this however still demands for a lot of manual selection...

[AEtzkorn]

When you select and place the view in the 2d drawing there is a check box to "Hide Trails" in the left hand side of the Edit view Window.  I use it all the time.

[L_Vercaempst]

Hi, 

Thanks for the reply, I was aware of this function and use it a lot as well. How do you implement your trails when you do need them?

[AEtzkorn]

So far in my tenure with my company I have not had to use the trails.  As you noted, they seem to get cluttered and hard to ID what they are supposed to point to, especially in drawing views.

[kacper.suchomski]

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@L_Vercaempst wrote:

Thanks for the reply, this however still demands for a lot of manual selection...

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Nope, you can click on the entire folder and disable all guides.

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@L_Vercaempst wrote:

How do you implement your trails when you do need them?

If you disable everything via a folder, you can still enable individual instances by pointing to them in the browser.

You can still use standard keyboard support (Ctrl/Shift) to speed up pointing to a change state.

[kacper.suchomski]

Thanks for the reply, this however still demands for a lot of manual selection...

[L_Vercaempst]

Hi

Thanks again for the reply. Hiding all the trails and selecting them via the browser is definitely a good solution. However I still end up with random lines that are out of place (see picture). Am I missing something here? 

 

[rosie_lucas1]

Hi @L_Vercaempst,

I wanted to check in and see if you still needed assistance, or if you found a solution to your question already? Let us know if you need further assistance by providing an update or if you have found a solution, please share it with the community so other members who may have the same question could learn from your experience.