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Change shape of IDW Detail View

Change shape of IDW Detail View

I would like to see the ability to change the shape of the detail view in an idw after it is placed.  The only way we can do this now is to delete the view and place a new one.  A simple task can turn into several minutes of work.

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Anonymous
Not applicable

This would be great the "help: states 1. Click the identifier on the detail boundary.  Grips appear on the boundary. 2. Move the cursor over a grip.  A menu appears.  3. From the menu select the desired shape.  Both the detail boundary and the detail view boundary update.  This doesn't work for me and it was written in 2014 so maybe it was for an older release and never brought back into the new release.  The only option I see is to smooth cutout shape or full detail boundary if you right click the detail and select options.  You would think the fence shape could easily be implemented.  Great idea!

milan5
Enthusiast

Is there any way to create desired(custom) shape for detail view ? 

karthur1
Mentor

Milan,

Currently (Inv 2019), there is no way to create a custom detail shape.  You only have round or square to pick from.  You should pick wisely since there is no way to change it later.

 

Kirk

milan5
Enthusiast

Thanks for information, hope this feature will include soon.

 

Milan

karthur1
Mentor

Perrydise,

I could not find those steps in the 2014 Help (or in 2019 either). Where are you seeing it?

 

Thanks

Anonymous
Not applicable

Karthur1,

It was in the "Find related content" to the right of the autodesk forum "To Change the Shape of a Detail Boundary".

See if this link takes you to it.

 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/AutoC...

karthur1
Mentor

Perrydise,

Those instructions are for Autocad Mechanical, not Inventor. 

 

Kirk

Anonymous
Not applicable

My bad, thanks for letting me know!Smiley Happy


@karthur1wrote:

I would like to see the ability to change the shape of the detail view in an idw after it is placed.  The only way we can do this now is to delete the view and place a new one.  A simple task can turn into several minutes of work.


 

Anonymous
Not applicable

Bump again please put this in Autodesk, its dating back over 8yrs of request, surely this cant be that difficult to implement, or is it in 2019.

ToddPig
Collaborator

An idea that is 7 years old, has 140 votes, and has been "accepted" but not implemented yet?  What's the incentive for users to submit / vote on ideas?

Anonymous
Not applicable

Idea posted in 2012 and as of mid 2019, it is still not implemented. My money is on this idea celebrating a 10 year anniversary without being implemented!

Anonymous
Not applicable

We are currently running on Inventor Professional 2020 at work and I still cannot believe this idea has been added into this software yet. Some of our sheets run up to 20 pages and we have a load of section views that link to a detailed view so I would mean re-detailing, re-labelling, dimension and then setting up these section views all over again.

 

The software subscription we all have is not cheap, so something like this needs to be fixed to help us back with amount being spent out.

 

Come on Autodesk please get this implemented into an update soon. Thanks

Anonymous
Not applicable

Future consideration seems to be code for "placed in the too hard bucket".  This is a basic feature that should exist.  Hard to implement? perhaps.  Necessary? yes.  very yes.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Going to keep bumping these, every time it comes up for me - I don't want to get banned or anything, but it's the only way I have to make some noise.

 

This is a basic drafting feature - I know we want to go paperless, but folks, it's not happening - we still need to make "DRAWINGS" it's our end product, give us the tools to make better ones, please.

Cadmanto
Mentor

In my opinion, it should be as simple as the already existing RC where you can add the border and connection line.

Simply add one more line that says basically if you have a circle border "Change to Rectangle"  or if you have the Rectangle "Change to Circle".

I am not a programmer, but sounds simple in theory. 😉

foolishgrunt
Advocate

Added my vote, hoping that Autodesk will yet deign to grant us this request.

Anonymous
Not applicable

After 8 years still no function to change the shape of the fence and the cutout.

I think this is kind of sad, specially as the topic is ranked in "future consideration".

Thanks Autodesk....

rclement
Collaborator

got me to tell you the truth i forgot all about it.probably incorporate after i drop dead and dont use inventor any more

jeffsteiger6735
Advocate

I'm of the opinion that there is no one on the Inventor team at Autodesk that has ever done and worked in a  drawing environment and understands the needs for many of these changes we request. Just a bunch of programmers who'd rather move buttons around and change UI because it looks different so must be an improvement.

ToddPig
Collaborator

Agreed

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