When using ORBIT or FREE ROTATE, while pressing LMB on a plane, show how many degrees had been rotated (right hand rule) in respective axis.   Best use when looking at specific plane, to easily approximate to wanted position without needing to use contraints. Show More

The Content Center urgently needs Imperial studs. Our team has successfully developed these studs using the metric stud family supplied by the Inventor Content Center to ensure functionality. However, we are currently facing non-fatal but inconvenient errors when placing these studs. I am more than happy to share the Imperial family we have created to help expedite development. The functions we are seeking include hole recognition, dynamic adjustment, and pattern recognition. Show More

Hello. It would be great to have a possibility to do a face Fillet on 2 faces without writing the size. Meaning that we would select 1st face and the 2nd face and fillter would automatically go "full fillet". Currently it can be done with a little function calculation, but direct feature would be the best.       Best regards, Rene Repina Show More

Hello.   It would be great to have a possibility to flip specific drawing dimenion to other way. In the example below, I would like to flip dimension "21.2" to other direction, so both dimensions are pointing into similar direction, not counter.       Best regards, Rene Repina Show More

We have a large drawing template (26 sheets total) that always presents the shown error message whenever drawings created with it are subsequently exported to .pdf file format. The painstaking part is doing the necessary detective work on 26 drawing sheets, every single note and title block element, in order to find the offending element with the unmappable font style. Please add a search/query tool in Inventor to allow just this type of detective work, only in much quicker fashion. Being able to search all elements by assigned attributes such as text font style, line type, assigned color, linked parameter, etc, would be extremely helpful. Thank you. Show More

When placing and constraining components in an assembly Inventor seems to assume control of the choice of mate or flush constraint depending on the relative positions of the parts at the time, irrespective of what choice I made at the start of the command. Someone somewhere may like this feature, I find it intensely irritating and time-wasting.  Is there a setting somewhere to disable this unwelcome interference? if not can it please be added? Show More

I always have to guess whether I need to use the horizontal or the vertical constrain when sketching, since it's relative to the global coordinate system. After using other 3D softwares I've relied on that the vertical and horizontal constrains were placed relative to the orientation of the view. I don't find it efficient having to always keep track of the global coordination system when sketching, since I often rotate or orient parts and drawings. It just bugs me a lot every time I select the "wrong" option even though it's "right" choice for my exact view. Or even rework those constrains entirely. When sketching, I don't care to which coordinate system those points are vertical or horizontal, they just have to be in-line with each other. Show More

Sometimes the colors assigned with Separate Colors to the components are a bit too similar. It would be good if you could just "scramble" the values somehow.   An additional option like this:     For example, if I said "Let's rework the green machine" - which one would you think I referred to? 😄   Blue, yellow and purple are a lot easier to differentiate. 👍       Show More

It would be great to add an option in "Document Settings" -> tab "Units", to set a different unit for tolerances (in 3D), as shown in the picture below.     A lot of watchmaker companies work with millimeter for global dimension and micron for tolerance. It means that 3,000 ±0.005 is written 3.000 ±5 in sketch, MDB or drawing dimensions.   The goal is to display and calculate tolerances in micron or whatever unit set without being linked to the "Length" unit. Show More

When producing orientation drawing for tanks etc it gets messy very quickly using conventional angular dimensions. That's why there is a need for angular ordinate dimensions currently I do this using the ordinate dimension then over riding the value then importing the parameter needed so its linked but this is time consuming. Please add   Original Author: Ben-Cornelius   Show More

I think it would be nice to have a slot feature in the hole/thread command for modeling. What that would look like; You select where you would want the center points for the radius, and you could pick within the menu, the distance (center to center, which could already be covered by the pre dimensioned points), radius of arc, and depth of slot. It would streamline drawings also as clicking the hole/thread dim could pull up its needed radius, depth, and center to center length, which would combine 3 different processes into one. To expand upon the drawing part, if you already have an ordinate set created with dims along the same axis as the slot being created, you could click an option to have the center-to-center dims to be incorporated into said ordinate set. Thank you! Show More

Hey y'all,    I need to draw some spiral over spiral as in wrap around fins coil up in the coil tube. This is the most creative way I did but still doesn't match with the pitch, thickness of the fins, and the overall diameter of the fin. I cannot use the thread feature for the coil needless to say wrap around the coil. Can your development team look into this feature?     Ying Show More

We need an object browser for iLogic, just like the one that can be found in the API window. This would make complex iLogic programming much easier, especially for beginners.   Original Author: mrattray   4/17/2013 Show More

Original Title: Custom section marks In order to follow my company's standards, I need to draw my own section mark lines. (See attached picture.)   In AutoCAD, we had a LISP routine to automate it - there were three clicks to input points. First click gave us the starting point, the end of the line with the circle. The 2nd click gave us the other end of the line. The 3rd click decided the direction the arrow pointed. After that, it prompted us for the section label ("A") and the sheet number ("S1").   I've figured out how to make the circles with numbers with prompted entries, but don't know how to draw the line and arrows without them being a fixed predetermined length and direction in a sketched symbol.   This would need to input similar to a leader line with multiple input points, which from what I can tell, sketched symbols are a single input point.   I really don't need for it to pull in the sheet number or section label automatically - I'm fine with manually inputting them with a prompt.     Original Author Anonymous from ‎03-13-2013 Show More

When you open Measure in Tab 1 and let it be open, then opens Tab 2 and press "Done" in Measure, Inventor jumps back to Tab 1. I know the workaround is to press the small cross in the upper left, next to the header. But to me that just doesn't seem to make sense.   I don't see the value of Inventor jumping back to the tab which measure was opened? Why not just make Done and the cross do the same thing? Show More

Hello, The result of the Duplicate Search shows you with a symbol, if the file has the same source or not. It would be nice to set a filter: - show files, which have the same source - show files, which have a different source   BR Patrick Show More

It would be nice to have a Find and Replace tool that would allow us to look for text values in the active file type.   Drawing file - search iProperties, Note text, View Label text, Dimension text, Table text, etc. Assembly files - search iProperties, Sketch text, Browser text, etc. Part files - search iProperties, Sketch text, Browser text, etc. Original Author: Curtis_Waguespack Show More

Hello, actual we have the possibility to set an advanced filter on different properties, if we search for duplicates. It would be helpful, that this search filter can be saved, so that the user can use the same filter again in the next search. BR Patrick   Show More

Imagine you mark an element in an assembly and a small dialog box pops up at the side of your screen. In it there are selectable properties, like name, export parameters, the amount of this element in this assembly, the constraints. And you would be able the edit those properties in that dialog box, without searching in the model browser. In big assemblies, this would be very helpful. Show More