How to lock/freeze Drawing view with all of its Dimensions?

[Anonymous]

Hi everybody, I'm using Inventor 2018.

I have an assembly model created with i-logic forms, these form updates multiple parameters in parts based on user inputs and some i-logic rules , I want to generate a drawing set based on specific user inputs then freeze the drawing set with these parameters,  I don't want it to be updated if I come back and updated the i-logic form with new inputs.

can anybody help with that?

Thanks.

Mohammad

[mdavis22569 · Accepted solution]

Defer updates 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2014...

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi Mohammad,

Like Mike said, you can use Defer Update to suspend the automatic update to the associative drawing. That is a good workflow to use. The other way to look at it is what do you want to do with the frozen drawing? Do you want to print it? In Defer Update mode, there is very limited ability to do anything. It is almost like viewing the drawing only. If viewing and printing is the only need, you could simply open the drawing in the free Inventor Viewer (shipped with the product and also free to download from Autodesk.com). The drawing will be shown as the last saved state in Inventor Viewer. None of the change in model after last drawing save will be propagate to the drawing in the Viewer.

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

Many Thanks Michael.

[Anonymous]

Many Thanks Johnson.