Dimension Background Mask

[kennyj]

There are similar posts to this one, but they have several issues (text, hatch, dimensions, etc.) and they are not getting much support I think because of this.

So to be clear: Inventor needs a way to make the background of Dimension Text able to mask what is behind the dimension. This should be a toggle on/off option within the dimension edit box.

Designers and drafters are using shaded views more often these days, so what used to be simple lines are now a shaded part limiting available white space. W

hen a dimension crosses these shaded areas there needs to be an option to hide what is behind the dimension. I am not looking for a work around; I am familiar with using the symbol clipping, hatch clipping, dimension text color change, etc. I should not have to create a sketch every time I need to hide a dimension background or make individual dimensions unique colors to be able to read them.

Please also support: "Background Mask" and "Drawing Dimensions".

Thank you, Kenny

[luca.righiGXQ85]

It's also my need

Luca

[Matthew_Policelli]

I agree this is needed. It's silly that you can background fill text and leader text, but not dimension text, balloons, etc.

[filip]

When it is possible in Leader Text, it cannot be that difficult. Bring it on 🙂

[jatindevaiya08]

Yes, I agree that this is a needed tool. It will improve quality of drawing and save time to create drawing.

[Bill_Bogan2]

Here's an example. Would be nice if it was a parameter you could specify.

Dimensions have them today. Text has them but lesser so and view labels (which I think this thread is about) do not have the treatment.

[Bill_Bogan2]

Hello,

Dimensions have masks already, text also but with near zero (tight) buffer which could be improved by providing a parameter to control the amount of (% maybe?) mask in relation to the text size. View labels, such as the Detail View, do not have the mask.

 

[Julian_Shepherd]

This doesn't work with a shaded component. I use these in customer visualisations as they don't always understand  shading. 

[Yijiang.Cai]

Do you want to have it in dimension & label when format text? We understand that it does support in text/leader text.

[Julian_Shepherd]

Hi Yes in dimension and labels please

[Yijiang.Cai]

Many thanks for posting this idea, and tracked as [INVGEN-60285].

[rspargur77]

BADLY NEEDED

[jimmyflash]

Hmmm...Status changed to: Future Consideration

Is it really appropriate status for the post with more than HUNDRED VOTES?

Think about this:

1) About a thousand votes is the historically most voted idea. We are at 10% of this record. That is already a big number. Actually there is only about 200 of ideas with such number of votes or higher (include Implemented).

2) What are the Top used Tags? The Drawings of course:

Why? Because the drawings are the crucial part of our daily work. Easy and 100% functional drawing environment is the most important for designer = top priority for improvement. The rest is just bonus.

So how many more votes you want for such simple modification?

[David_G_Rodriguez]

I vote for this too. It is much needed.

[Kent_Adoniram]

This has been requested many times over, I hope next update we receive support for this dimension masking issue.

[Hunteil]

Adding reference links of Similar discussions with "workaround" solutions:

• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/is-there-a-text-mask-option-in-a-drawing/td-p/6257852
• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/hiding-things-behind-sketched-symbols/m-p/5852225#M564...

Note: These shouldn't be considered the full solution. They should be counted as only "workarounds" until Autodesk actually adds a full real solution.

Autodesk killed this idea: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/inventor-drawing-sketch-symbols-clipping-boundry/idi-p...

I would like to attach it here. Just because it didn't get enough attention, doesn't mean it's not useful. It's called social media skills and not everyone has the time and skill to reach out to everyone and advertise it when they have work to perform & so does everyone else. Please remember you are choking your product by not continually improving it for it's users... (sry you probably already know & can't b/c leadership blah blah blah) Any-who...
For the idea link above. Would really like to use the Symbol Clipping (Right Click symbol / block > Edit Symbol > Check box Symbol Clipping.) solution & expand on it. But give us the option to expand / scale / adjust offset of the Symbol Clipping Boundary. This would solve a lot of these problems for most of us and shouldn't be too hard to implement without too much rework.

i.e. I have a CL Symbol "℄" and the text font symbol is larger than the clipping boundary, I would like to extend that clipping so my dim line doesn't so through it.

[matthew.hansche]

I agree. In AutoCAD (and I understand this is comparing apples to oranges in some respects) you could easily apply backgruond masks to text via a simple checkbox. Additionally, you could manually break dimension lines whenever and wherever you wanted. Both would be useful additions to Inventor drawings.

[esimers]

why can we not have options like Autocad for background masking?? What year is this??

[G.DeGheest]

I use a sketch symbol (with and solid hatch) and attach it on the dimension/tekst point.

In this way the sketch symbol folows the dimension tekst when moved.

Works great!    

[kennyj]

@G.DeGheest - you clearly didn't read the full 2017 post.  Symbol clipping is a work around noted in the OP.  This should be a setting in the dimension & label commands to allow it to be done on the fly.  We shouldn't have to use work arounds to use the software in such a basic manner.  This Request has received over 130 votes and still Inventor/Autodesk have not implemented it.

[David_G_Rodriguez]

This is one of a long list of shortcomings when it comes to 2D drawing in Inventor. They release a new version every year and there is rarely ever functionality added to the drawing portion of the program. It seems they are just waiting to try and get everyone over to Fusion 360 or something.

Background mask within dimensions was available in AutoCAD before Inventor even existed. I don't understand why that wouldn't have been the starting point for 2D drawings in Inventor. It seems so basic. 

The only post I saw from Autodesk on this is that dimensioning over your model is bad drafting practice. Well, I don't need Autodesk to tell me how to use their program or much less how my drawings need to look.