Lock drawing view

[johan.degreef]

Can I fix/lock a drawing view's position in an Inventor drawing?

[Gabriel_Watson]

You could right-click the view and make it Raster?

[bradeneuropeArthur]

You could lock the views by prevent them to be moved by using the event in the drawing.
Means if you move the view it will warn you and move it back to where it was positioned.

Does that make sense?

[johan.degreef]

@Gabriel_Watson That doesn't make my view unmovable...?

[johan.degreef]

@bradeneuropeArthur I just assign an ilogic rule to the view change event? That doesn't pop up after a simple view move

[Gabriel_Watson]

Sorry, I did not understand the first question correctly. Raster will not lock the view in terms of its position in the sheet.

[sundars]

HI @johan.degreef 

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to lock a view on the sheet so that it doesnt move positions. You could create some grid lines using a sheet sketch and zone borders and fixing your view on a particular quadrant but you would have to manage the positions manually in case the view is moved.

Another great request for the ideas forum 🙂

Thanks

-shiva

[Gabriel_Watson]

See if this helps, I don't think it locks views in place but it may prevent them from moving when updates come through. Change your App. Options to Fixed justification, then change the display options of the base view to Fixed as well (use Defer updates to open the drawing so you can choose that before updates come through):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9yd45rJYg

Some iLogic that might do what is needed:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/how-to-lock-a-drawing-view-in-place/m-p/8999104/highli...

And as @sundars pointed out, there is an Inventor idea to vote for that:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/inventor-lock-drawing-view/idi-p/7430490

[sundars]

@Gabriel_Watson - Nice tip on using Fixed view justification. It is indeed a good way to fix your view center. It should do the job in most cases, the only caveat is that if the model changes, the view bounds would grow (or shrink) along the direction of geometry change but it will keep the center fixed, whereas using center justification grows the view bounds all around. Actually I wonder why we dont keep "fixed" as the default - legay reasons 🙂

[bradeneuropeArthur]

You could use the filters to avoid that:

[bradeneuropeArthur]

And you can use the OnDragEvents

[bradeneuropeArthur]

I have created an add in preventing moving views in a drawing.

See the attached movie if this is what you expect.

[johan.degreef]

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/fix-a-view-s-position-in-a-drawing/idi-p/10946440

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Does the add in help you in the meantime?

[johan.degreef]

Video is not playable

[bradeneuropeArthur]

uploaded again

[johan.degreef]

Yes this is what it should do.

[banghn]

What event do you use on Inventor Drawing, thanks

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Hi,

OnDrag

OnPreselect

and

OnSelect