2018 UI - Representations (View & LOD)

Anonymous · ‎09-05-2017

Inventor 2018 allows us to customize the UI in quite a few new ways. I noticed we can how have seperate tabs for vault, model, favorites, and representations. The representations tab would be a lot more useful if the representations tab included "View" and "Level of Detail" along with Positional. Then we could have a static representation area while being able to collapse all on the model browser and still select views and level of detail, currently we can only do this with 1/3 of the representation types.

CoryMarcusAllen · ‎01-22-2018

I could not agree more. In my workplace, position reps are by far the least used. It makes this tab virtually useless. missed opportunity!

Anonymous · ‎04-11-2018

3 Dockable panels, for Representation (existing), LOD, and Views are frequenty asked in my company. Very good Idea, thanks for posting 😉

Kay_Rethmeier · ‎04-05-2023

Hi Autodesk,

I guess in 80% of all assemblies there are more than the standard design views Master and Standard. But only in a few assemblies there are positional views. But there is this tab Representations, that is for "nothing"... Why aren't the design views not listed here as well? Switching between different views could be very easy having a separate browser for it. Currently I have to scroll up and down and up and down, expand and collapse and expand and collapse, it is so annoying and time consuming....

Thanks!

Cheers,

Kay

frank.gavilar · ‎09-29-2023

I would like to have a tab for models states and a tab for origin next to the model browser. This would greatly reduce scrolling in the model browser.

While working on assemblies with a lot of parts and model states adding a new part will lead to a scroll fest of enormous proportions. Open an existing models states, scroll down, unsuppres the new part and unsuppres it's mates. Scroll back up select the next model state repeat.

Inventor tabbed model states and origin.png