Inventor Pro 2018 Snap/Grid in .idw drawing environment

[Anonymous]

Looking for a feature, that may or may not exist, in the .idw drawing environment.  When moving dimensions, text boxes, and viewports is there a way to snap to an interval or grid?  I am aware of Alignment=>Horizontal for viewports, and Annotate => Arrange Dimensions.  I find myself eye-balling dimension alignment and text alignment, and even using the edges of the windows and even a physical straight edge to align dimensions and text.

[jimmygunz37 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

EDIT: just seeing the jpgs... i usually eyeball the space between dims, but the below is for obtaining colinear dimensions.

Not sure if there is a grid (and hope someone may have info on that).

BUT, you can align dims to other dims/adjacent dims by doing the following:

- create the dimension

- while it is in the placement/stretch mode (even when grabbing an existing dim), hover over the dimension line you would like to align to

- you should get a yellow ball (and i think a tracking line) that you can align with previously set dimensions.

- click and set the dimension in place

Hope this helps, even if temporary. If you feel this answered the question, please accept as solution.

Thanks,

James

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi Folks,

In terms of the sheet space, there isn't a grid to snap to. In drawing sketch, there is indeed a grid and snap, defined in Tools -> Document Settings -> Sketch. That is only available when you create a drawing sketch or draft view.

If you like the AutoCAD drafting workflows, you may want to keep using AutoCAD to document Inventor components. AutoCAD's VIEWBASE command can create associative drawing views for Inventor components. After the views are created, you can leverage AutoCAD's drafting tools to annotate the views.

Many thanks!